Staff Bio
Andrea Anason, MPH, is as the Associate Director for Policy for the Public Health Infrastructure Center at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ms. Anason most recently served as the Deputy Associate Director for Policy and Strategic Partnerships Lead in the Public Health Infrastructure Center.
Role at ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø
Ms. Anason leads and coordinates external partner engagement opportunities to advance the center’s priorities. Prior to the 2023 ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø reorganization, Ms. Anason served in a similar role in ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø’s former Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services.
Previous experience
Previously, Ms. Anason served as the Program Management Officer in the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø. In this role, she managed and oversaw the administrative and financial operations of the division and advanced division strategic priorities through program execution. Ms. Anason also served as the ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Liaison to the ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Foundation. She worked closely with ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø and ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Foundation staff to advance partnership opportunities involving the ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Foundation. She managed the ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Conflict of Interest Review Panel for two years.
During her ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø career, Ms. Anason also served as the Associate Director for Policy in the Division of Scientific Education and Professional Development (DSEPD) in CSELS. She managed policy activities for DSEPD's portfolio of public health workforce, fellowship, and training programs. In another policy role at ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø, Ms. Anason was the Deputy Associate Director for Policy in the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR). She provided strategic and operational oversight of public health preparedness policy, planning, and evaluation activities at ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø. She served in a several policy roles in OPHPR over five years.
Prior to joining ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø, Ms. Anason was a program officer at the Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the National Academy of Medicine, where she served as the study director for the and was one of the lead program staff for the . Ms. Anason worked in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human services for several years prior to joining IOM. She came to ASPE through the Presidential Management Intern program (known today as the Presidential Management Fellows program).