Daniel Marc Sosin, MD, MPH, FACP, Acting Director, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, CDC

Daniel M. Sosin is the Acting Director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In this role, he is responsible for all of CDC's public health emergency preparedness and emergency response activities.

OPHPR has primary oversight and responsibility for all programs that comprise CDC's terrorism preparedness and emergency response portfolio. Through an all-hazards approach to preparedness, focusing on threats from natural, biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological events, OPHPR helps the nation prepare for and respond to urgent threats to the public's health. OPHPR carries out its mission by emphasizing accountability through performance, progress through public health science, and collaboration through partnerships.

Dr. Sosin began his CDC career in 1986 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer assigned to Kentucky. He later supervised state-based EIS officers as a section chief in the Epidemiology Program Office (EPO) and was associate director for science at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, coordinating national injury surveillance and extramural research activities. Dr. Sosin also served as director of EPO's Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics, where he was senior advisor for surveillance policy, research, and directed programs.

He joined OPHPR in 2004 as the lead scientist for terrorism preparedness and emergency response at CDC. As the Senior Advisor for OPHPR's Science and Public Health Program he developed and implemented OPHPR's science priorities and served as a medical and science advisor to the OPHPR director. In January 2008, Dr. Sosin initiated the Biosurveillance Coordination Unit at the request of the CDC and OPHPR directors. In this role he served as the federal lead for the development and integration of a nationwide biosurveillance capability for human health security. Dr. Sosin has served as Acting OPHPR Director since January 2009.

Dr. Sosin is board certified in preventive medicine and internal medicine. He received his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Michigan; his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine; and his master's degree in epidemiology from the University of Washington School Of Public Health. Dr. Sosin currently serves as a Captain in the U.S. Public Health Service.