Jennifer Wiltz MD, MPH

Biography

CAPT Jennifer Wiltz, MD, MPH, FAAP, FAHA, is the acting medical director of CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) and the acting director of the Office of Medicine and Science. In these roles, she works to advance public health science and strengthen links between health care and public health.

CAPT Wiltz is a board-certified pediatrician, medical responder for the US Public Health Service (USPHS) and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and a leader in government and with external partners improving population health. She serves on the HHS Data Council and is the USPHS liaison to the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Uniformed Services; CDC liaison to American Heart Association Atherosclerosis, Hypertension, and Obesity in Youth Committee; CDC liaison to the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund Advisory Panel and the PCORnet National Stakeholder Group; and pediatrician for the CDC’s Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment consult team.

Among her numerous public health leadership roles, CAPT Wiltz has served as a White House data fellow writing the first Federal Data Strategy for the US President’s Management Agenda, senior advisor for data policy in the CDC Office of Science, the director of the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Program, and public health leadership fellow at the Brookings Institution. She has provided leadership for the USPHS Physician PAC as the Readiness Subcommittee Co-Chair, Pediatric Group Co-Chair, and Voting Member; and has had the privilege to serve on deployments in Uganda, Sudan, and domestically, including the COVID-19, EVALI, Unaccompanied Children, and nodding syndrome responses.

Before coming to USPHS and CDC and as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in 2009, CAPT Wiltz completed her academic pediatric fellowship at Golisano Children’s Hospital in Rochester, New York, where she also served on the pediatric faculty.

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