Leadership
Scientific Education and Professional Development Program Office
Denise Koo, MD, MPH
Director
Dr. Koo graduated from Harvard University in 1984 with a B.A. in biochemical sciences. After combining medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, with an M.P.H. in epidemiology at University of California, Berkeley, she completed a primary care internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
She then entered CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) and was assigned to the California Department of Health Services from 1991-1993.
Subsequent to EIS, Dr. Koo served as a preventive medicine resident in CDC’s Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch. She then took a job as chief of the CDC branch responsible for operation of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, in the Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics, in 1994. Dr. Koo became director of this same division, in the Epidemiology Program Office (EPO), three years later, in 1997.
In 2001, Dr. Koo became the EPO Associate Director for Science. In this position the CDC Director also tasked her with responsibility for CDC implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule.
Dr. Koo became Director, Division of Applied Public Health Training at CDC in November 2002,
re-organized 2 years later as the Career Development Division. Dr. Koo obtained board certification in internal medicine and preventive medicine.
Contact Us:
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Public Health Surveillance and Informatics Program Office (proposed)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Rd., Mailstop E97
Atlanta, GA 30333, USA - 800-CDC-INFO
(800-232-4636)
TTY: (888) 232-6348
New Hours of Operation
8am-8pm ET
Monday-Friday
Closed Holidays - cdcinfo@cdc.gov
