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Brad Austin, M.P.H., FACHE

Senior Program Officer Brad Austin

Captain, U.S. Public Health Service
MRC Senior Program Officer, MRC Program Operations
Office of the Civilian Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps
Office of the U.S. Surgeon General

Captain Brad Austin serves as a Senior Program Officer in the Office of the Civilian Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps in the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General. He is responsible for providing oversight for programmatic and operational activities in support of MRC units nationwide.

For the past 7 years, he has devoted his career to public health emergency preparedness activities. CAPT Austin previously served in the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) as a Senior Program Management Officer. In this role, he trained and deployed to the HHS Secretary’s Operation Center as a member of the HHS Emergency Management Group for Hurricanes Dean, Katrina, Rita, and Ernesto; St Louis Power Outage; and Lebanon Repatriation. Prior to this assignment, CDR Austin served as the first Project Officer to the National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program.

First commissioned in 1990, CAPT Austin started his Federal career in the Health Resources and Services Administration working with the Ryan White CARE Act. He then served in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, managing various substance abuse treatment grant programs. He had the privilege of serving in The White House, providing technical expertise and coordination among substance abuse treatment, mental health, and HIV prevention.

CAPT Austin was raised in Northern California and received his bachelor’s from the University of California at Berkeley and his master’s in public health in health services administration from San Diego State University. He is Board Certified in Healthcare Administration and a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Brad is an avid traveler, a bicyclist, a swimmer, and with three marathons under his belt, refuses to give up the notion that he is too old to run another! In the late 1980s, he was a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer working on healthcare programs in Central Africa.

Last Updated on 7/7/2009