Mark S. Smolinski, M.D., M.P.H. is currently Senior Program Officer at the Institute of Medicine and Study Director for Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response. Mark received his medical degree from the University of Michigan, training in Internal Medicine in Michigan, and training in Preventive Medicine at the University of Arizona where he received his Masters in Public Health. He was a member of the investigation team during the Hantavirus discovery in Southwestern United States.
Mark was stationed as a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Officer in San Diego, and the principle public health investigator on an outbreak of pertussis among adults in a correctional facility, tetrodotoxin poisoning from puffer fish in California, and sexual behavior surveillance in the San Diego core STD prevalence areas. His experience includes epidemiologic field work in the Republic of Georgia .
Most recently, Mark was the Luther Terry Fellow at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Office of Public Health and Science where he was a member of the Healthy People 2010 development team and had primary responsibility for Healthy People 2010:Understanding and Improving Health that focuses on the Leading Health Indicators and a community health framework.
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