Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Public Health Informatics
1600 Clifton Road
MS E85
Atlanta,
GA
USA
30345
Email:
lig1@cdc.gov
Biographical Sketch:
Lynn Gibbs Scharf is currently the Director of the Division of Alliance Management and Consultation in the National Center for Public Health Informatics (NCPHI) at CDC. In this role she facilitates the Center’s partnership activities and leads efforts to improve public health’s capacity to implement interoperable information systems through the Public Health Information Network (PHIN). This includes defining public health requirements for data exchange, technical assistance to State, territorial, and local public health agencies, and communication and outreach activities.
Prior to joining NCPHI, Ms. Gibbs Scharf was the Deputy Director of the Division of State and Local Readiness in the Coordinating Office of Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response, CDC, and the Acting Branch Chief of the Evaluation and Outcome Monitoring Branch. In these roles, she oversaw the distribution and effective use of approximately $900,000,000 in funding to State, territorial, and local public health agencies for upgrading their ability to respond to public health threats and emergencies. In addition, she was responsible for developing a comprehensive evaluation program for state and local preparedness to respond to bioterrorism, infectious disease outbreaks, and other public health threats and emergencies.
Prior to joining the Office of Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response in 2003, Ms. Gibbs-Scharf was an Acting Deputy Branch Chief in the Public Health Practice Program Office where she worked on a variety of assessment and evaluation activities including being a primary author of the Public Health Preparedness and Response Capacity Inventories.
Ms. Gibbs-Scharf began her career at CDC as a Prevention Specialist in the Public Health Prevention Service where she worked on a variety of projects for the National Center for Environmental Health, the Public Health Practice Program Office, and the Prince William Health District, Virginia, including:
• the development of a statistical model for estimating the burden of lead poisoning in children that was used to determine cooperative agreement funding levels
• providing technical assistance on state surveillance activities
• field testing of the first chapter of the Guide to Community Preventive Services
• managing a local Turning Point community collaboration
Prior to joining CDC, Ms. Gibbs-Scharf was an epidemiologist in the Louisiana Office of Public Health, Injury Research and Prevention Section, where she conducted brain and spinal cord injury surveillance, evaluated injury prevention programs, and conducted and published research studies.
Ms. Gibbs-Scharf has a BS in Biology and Chemistry (Cum laude) from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and a MPH in Epidemiology (Magna cum laude) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.