CDC
COTPER/BCU
1600 Clifton Road, NE
Mailstop K-72
Atlanta,
GA
USA
30333
Email:
dms8@cdc.gov
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Daniel M. Sosin is the Senior Advisor for Science and Public Health Practice in the Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (COTPER) in the Office of the Director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.
He began his career at CDC in 1986 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service assigned to the Kentucky Department for Health Services in Frankfort, Kentucky. He served as a CDC Preventive Medicine Resident in the Division of Injury Epidemiology and Control in 1988-89. He supervised state-based EIS Officers as a Section Chief in the Epidemiology Program Office (EPO) from 1989-1994 and then returned to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) to study traumatic brain injury (TBI) and develop longitudinal surveillance of TBI. Dr. Sosin’s scientific investigations include numerous epidemiologic investigations of TBI, including those resulting from motorcycle and bicycle crashes, adolescent risk behaviors, and a range of outbreak investigations. He later served as the Associate Director for Science in NCIPC where he coordinated national injury surveillance and extramural research activities, spearheading their new research agenda and a variety of research policies. From 2001 through 2003 Dr. Sosin was the Director, Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics, EPO where he directed 70 staff and a $6 million budget and served as the senior advisor for surveillance policy, research, and programs, including the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System, 122 Cities Mortality Reporting System, the Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program, the Assessment Initiative, web-access to CDC data sets, and Epi Info. Dr. Sosin has been a national leader in the development and evaluation of surveillance systems for early detection of outbreaks.
As the Senior Advisor for Science and Public Health Practice, Dr. Sosin is the lead scientist for terrorism preparedness and emergency response at CDC, developing and implementing the agency science priorities and serving as a medical and science advisor to the Director, COTPER.