Rick Anderson
Rick Anderson is a SAS programmer in the PHSB performing data cleaning and SAS programming. He has been a Northrop Grumman contractor at the CDC for 21 years and with DPH for the last 5 years.  He has worked with SAS for 18 years. 
 
Bill Bartoli
Mr. Bartoli is a programmer for Northrup Grumman.  He has used SAS for data analysis, data management and programming for 31 years. He has been weighting and generating data sets and reports for the BRFSS for 14 years.
 
Rosalyn Bell, MPA
Rosalyn Bell is a senior public health advisor with more than 15 years of experience in public health. She began her work as a public health consultant in Georgia’s state tobacco use prevention program and later as the manager for the state’s diabetes control program. Ms. Bell joined CDC in 2002 as a public health advisor in the Public Health Practice Program Office (PHPPO) and later was assigned as a project officer to the National Center for Public Health Informatics and to the National Center for Environmental Health, in the Environmental Public Health Tracking Program. Currently, Ms. Bell serves as the team lead for the State and Program Coordination team, within CDC’s Population Health Surveillance Branch, working with BRFSS. She has a master’s degree in public administration and is also a DrPH candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago. 
 
Tom Chapel, MA, MBA
Thomas J. Chapel serves as CDC’s first Chief Evaluation Officer.  In his position Tom strengthens program evaluation and expands evaluation capacity with CDC programs and partners by setting guidelines and standards, and providing hands-on facilitation, training, and practical tools and resources. Mr. Chapel joined CDC in January 2001 as a health scientist and has been providing evaluation leadership ever since. Tom is known nationally for his work in evaluation and his leadership with the American Evaluation Association.  He was the 2013 winner of AEA’s Myrdal Government Evaluation Award.
 
Before joining CDC, Tom was a vice president in the Atlanta office of Macro International (now ICF International), where he directed hundreds of projects and tasks in evaluation and planning for CDC, other Federal agencies, and state, local, and community-based organizations, Mr. Chapel received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Johns Hopkins University and his Master of Business Administration and Master of Public Policy degrees from the University of Minnesota.
 
Claude Comeau 
Claude Comeau is president of Comeau Associates a southern New Hampshire computer consulting firm that works with CATI systems, databases and web solutions.  He has created Ci3/WinCATI questionnaires and also worked with clients to develop reports that help guide CATI centers.  He has had the opportunity to visit and consult with many CATI centers throughout the United States over the past 17 years.  This diverse experience provides a unique view he shares with clients.  He has presented on CATI related topics at Statistics Canada as well as various CDC/BRFSS conferences. His clients have included the CDC/BRFSS, AMA, Harvard Medical School, Puerto Rico Department of Health, Alaska Department of Health, SMS in Hawaii to name a few.
 
Sonya Gamble, MS
Sonya Gamble is a Statistician with the Population Health and Surveillance Branch within the Division of Population Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. In this role, she assists the states with the data quality and management.  She graduated with a Master of Science in Statistics from Florida State University.
 
Bill Garvin, MS
Mr. Garvin joined CDC and the BRFSS in 1989 as a computer programmer.  He became an integral part of the support team for the CATI system and participated in the development of many of the procedures and tools presently in place for processing the BRFSS data.  As a senior BRFSS operations specialist he provides technical assistance in all aspects of the BRFSS data collection year.
 
Wayne Giles, MD, MS
Wayne H. Giles joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in July 1992.  He is currently the Director of the Division of Population Health within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  He holds a B.A. (Biology) from Washington University, an M.S. (Epidemiology) from the University of Maryland, and an M.D. from Washington University, and has completed residencies in both Internal Medicine (University of Alabama at Birmingham) and Preventive Medicine (University of Maryland).  His past work experience has included studies examining the prevalence of hypertension in Africa, clinical trials evaluating the effectiveness of cholesterol-lowering agents, and studies examining racial differences in the incidence of stroke. Dr. Giles currently directs research and programmatic activities in a number of areas including arthritis, aging, alcohol, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, prevention research, school health and epilepsy.  He has over 150 publications in peer reviewed journals and has authored several book chapters. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Charles C. Shepard Award in Assessment and Epidemiology and the Jeffrey P. Koplan Award.
 
Khosrow Heidari, MA, MS
Khosrow Heidari is the SC State Chronic Disease Epidemiologist and directs the Chronic Disease Epidemiology Division within the Bureau of Community Health and Chronic Disease Prevention in Department of Health and Environmental Control. Through his division, they provide surveillance & epidemiological support to a variety of public health program areas. He has shared the results of his collaborative studies with regional and national audiences in the evaluation and epidemiology field through publications and presentations. He is an adjunct assistant professor at the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics - Arnold School of Public Health - University of South Carolina. He is chair of the NACDD’s Science, Epidemiology & Evaluation Committee. He serves on the board of SC Asthma Alliance and on the CarboNix advisory board. He chairs the Surveillance committee of the SC Heart & Stroke Care Alliance. 
 
James Holt, PhD
Dr. James Holt is the Team Leader for Analytic Methods, in the CDC National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.  Jim has been with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta since 1992.  He earned his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Georgia in 2003.  His research focuses on the application of geospatial analysis methods for chronic disease surveillance and epidemiology.  He is also the CDC manager for the Chronic Disease Indicators project. 
 
Ronaldo Iachan, PhD
Dr. Iachan is a senior statistician and Fellow at ICF who has worked over 30 years on statistical applications to health and social issues.  He has served on ICF’s IRB for the past 13 years, and has served as a statistical editor for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) for 15 years.  Dr. Iachan has extensive experience in statistical design and analysis, with more than 35 refereed articles published in statistical methods, in particular in the areas of survey sampling design and analysis. As a lead statistician for a number of national surveys including the National Adult Tobacco Survey (NATS), the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), and National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS), Dr. Iachan has developed the sampling designs and weighting plans, and conducted sample selection, weighting and non-response analyses. He has recently worked with CDC to develop national weights for the state-based BRFSS survey system, extending the approach he first conducted in 1998.  Dr. Iachan has also performed cross-national analyses of data from the World Health Organization (WHO) Study of Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) leading to published refereed articles on violence and mental health. He is currently the Lead Statistician for the Data Coordinating Center (DCC) for the CDC’s HIV Supplemental Surveillance System, providing statistical support, analytical trainings and technical assistance to grantees funded by CDC for participation as surveillance sites in the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System (NHBS) or the Medical Monitoring Project (MMP). Dr. Iachan received his Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley.
 
Nadonnia Jones, BA
Nadonnia Jones graduated from the University of West Florida in 2003 with a B.A. in English and has been a writer-editor with CDC since 2007. She works on NCEH/ATSDR’s Writer-Editor Services Team, where her job duties include editing and proofreading CDC materials and publications, teaching writing and grammar classes to CDC staff, and writing the weekly Writing Tip Wednesday grammar column.
 
Sarojini Kanotra, PhD
Dr. Sarojini Kanotra is the Project Director/ Coordinator of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) in Kentucky. Dr Kanotra specializes in collection of population health data, creation of research designs, logic models and strategic planning. She has over twelve years of experience working in public health specifically in maternal and child health epidemiology and public health surveillance. She was assigned as an MCH epidemiologist by CDC to the state of Kentucky to build and enhance maternal and child health (MCH) epidemiology and data capacity at the state level. Dr. Kanotra has five years of experience as an evaluator for the federally funded Healthy Start project in Louisville. She has received training in conducting utilization-focused evaluation as a Collaborative Evaluation Fellow of the American Cancer Society. Further she has over a year’s experience in conducting evaluation as a guest researcher with the Pregnancy Risk Assessment and Monitoring System (PRAMS).
 
Chaoyang Li, PhD
Chaoyang Li is a lead health scientist in the National Center for Environmental Health. He worked with the BRFSS as an epidemiologist for eight years during 2005-2013 and conducted research on a variety of health topics using the BRFSS data. He taught the Principles of Epidemiology for three years prior to coming to CDC. He gained a PhD in Preventive Medicine from University of Southern California.
 
Tebitha Mawokomatanda, MSPH
Tebitha Mawokomatanda is a biostatistician in the Division of Population Health branch. She has been a contractor within the branch for 2 years where she worked on the Survey Operations Team, helping perform data analysis and data cleaning. She has earned an MSPH from the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. 
 
Natasha McCoy, MPH
Natasha McCoy, MPH, is a Public Health Consultant for the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors and provides project development, technical assistance and grants management services for the association’s CDC-funded initiatives.  McCoy formerly served as Director of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Diabetes Prevention and Control Program supporting efforts for a statewide health disparities collaborative, Medicaid coverage of diabetes self-management education and a statewide diabetes agenda.  While in this position, McCoy volunteered as Chair of NACDD Diabetes Council’s Advocacy Committee.  McCoy also served as Interim Director of Prevention Programs at Brotherhood, Incorporated, a minority-serving community-based nonprofit 501(c)3 organization in New Orleans, Louisiana.  McCoy received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology Pre-Med from Xavier University of Louisiana and a Dual Masters of Public Health degree at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
 
Wil Murphy
Wilmon Murphy Jr., is a Northrop Grumman Contractor. He has been a SAS/ SUDAAN Programmer, Project Manager for Asthma Callback for 9 years and has worked for BRFSS for 19 years.
 
Jean O’Connor, JD, MPH, DrPH
Jean O’Connor is the Chronic Disease Prevention Director for the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) where she is responsible for statewide programs related to cancer prevention, tobacco, adolescent health, and asthma.  Dr. O’Connor has worked in public health research, policy, and program development for almost 20 years, starting out as Emergency Medical Technician and doing research in the Emergency Department at Grady Hospital. That experience taught her firsthand about the role of systems and environments on health status, and she pursued her JD and MPH at Emory University, and then her DrPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before joining DPH in 2013, Dr. O’Connor served as a state deputy health director and a health insurance policy advisor; and a Health Scientist at CDC working on policy and strategy issues across multiple centers.  For the past decade, she has taught public health law and policy at the Rollins School of Public Health.
 
Carol Pierannunzi, PhD
Dr. Carol Pierannunzi is the Senior Survey Methodologist BRFSS and Professor Emeritus at Kennesaw State University.  She received her Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of Georgia.  She has conducted over 100 surveys for federal, state and local governments and nonprofit organizations and is the (co)author of four books and over 40 articles. She was been with the CDC since 2009.
 
Sam Posner, PhD
Samuel F. Posner is the Editor in Chief of Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy. In this position he is responsible for reviewing and making editorial decisions on all manuscripts submitted to PCD. He is also the Deputy Associate Director for Science at the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta Georgia. Dr. Posner is currently working as the leader of data analysis working group on Multiple Chronic Conditions as part of the Secretary's Initiative of Multiple Chronic Conditions, where he is coordinating analysis of data from five national surveillance systems. Dr. Posner is also a member of the HHS Interagency Working Group on Multiple Chronic Conditions. He also serves as the CDC co-lead for the Preconception Health and Healthcare activities at CDC. Dr. Posner has been with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since 1998. He started his career at CDC as a staff scientist working on women's health and HIV.
Prior to coming to CDC he was at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Posner received his Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Southern California in 1996 and his BA in Psychology from the University of San Francisco in 1992. Throughout his career he has worked in health-related research on a number of topics, including tobacco use, cancer, women's health, Dementia of Alzheimer's Type, HIV, and other chronic disease related topics. Dr. Posner's current research interests include chronic disease prevention and health promotion, the co-occurrence of chronic conditions and the link between health and the physical environment. Dr. Posner has published more than 100 articles and book chapters on these topics. 

Ajay Sharma, MBA, BS
Ajay Sharma is a software engineer working for Northrop Grumman. He has been supporting CDC in data reformatting and validation for last 15 years. He received a BS in Computer Science and MBA.

Rebecca Topol, SM
Rebecca Topol has been working as the Alaska BRFSS Coordinator since September 2004.  She has a master’s degree in Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health.  Prior to working with the State of Alaska, Ms. Topol worked as an Epidemiologist for the Alaska Native Epidemiology Center and as a data analyst for the University of Alaska as part of a longitudinal study of injection drug users.

Machell Town, PhD, MS
Dr. Town is the Branch Chief of the PHSB. She joined as a mathematical statistician.  In 2009, she became Team Lead of Survey Operations, managing sampling, processing, weighting and dissemination of the BRFSS. She has consulted on sample designs and weighting for several projects including the Steps to a Healthier US, Communities Putting Prevention to Work and the Asthma Callback surveys. She holds a BS and MS in Statistics and a PhD in Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology.  Before coming to CDC, Machell was a mathematical statistician at the US Bureau of the Census. 
 
Robyn Wallace
Robyn Wallace is a Scientific Data Analyst and has worked the past 3 years as a Northrop Grumman contractor for the Population Health Surveillance Branch, Division of Population Health.  Mrs. Wallace has over 15 years of experience in SAS programming, system architecture and clinical data management with a focus on conceptualizing and executing data analysis for bio-clinical studies and public health programs.  Prior to joining Northrop Grumman, she worked as a Senior Statistical programmer for Social and Scientific Solutions and was Associate Director of SAS Programming and Biostatistics at AtheroGenics Inc.
 
Fang Xu, PhD
Fang Xu is an Epidemiologist, and a Northrop Grumman contractor for the Population Health Surveillance Branch, Division of Population Health.  She received her PhD in Epidemiology and MS in Biostatistics from Case Western Reserve University.  Prior to joining Northrop Grumman, she was a statistician working at the statistics core of Center for Clinical Investigation and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Case Western Reserve University for 8 years.