S. Nicole Fehrenbach, MPP

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Division of Alliance Management and Consultation
Building 2500, Second Floor, Mailstop E-85
2500 Century Parkway
Atlanta, GA
USA 30333
Email: ekk5@cdc.gov

Biographical Sketch:
S. Nicole Fehrenbach, M.P.P. is the Deputy Director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Public Health Informatics (NCPHI), Division of Alliance Management and Consultation (DAMC). In the capacity of supporting the Division Director, she is responsible for strategic planning, financial and programmatic management, and the research and evaluation efforts of the Division's programs and functions. Her current focus is on public health informatics infrastructure, research and evaluation, communities of practice, workforce development and technical assistance for state and local public health departments. Ms. Fehrenbach’s experience includes integration efforts within state and local public health departments, project management, informatics, performance measurement, benchmarking, knowledge management, and health services research. Ms. Fehrenbach has led specific efforts to facilitate adoption of interoperable information systems and associated information tools to support federal, state and local health departments’ efforts through collaborative problem definition, synthesis of best practices, stakeholder engagement, value case definition and resource identification. Ms. Fehrenbach received her master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University (1995) and her bachelor’s degree in political science and quantitative business (1993) from Rosemont College. She completed her doctoral work in 2007 in the Joint Ph.D. Program in Public Policy with the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University, concentrating on health policy and information technology analysis and evaluation methods.