The CDC Leaders

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—Mark Twain

 

Nicholas Farrell, BS

Acting, Chief Management Officer, Coordinating Office for Global Health

Nick Farrell is the acting Chief Management Officer (CMO) for the Coordinating Office for Global Health (COGH) where he focuses his energies on improving global business services to support CDC's overseas offices and international programs.

He currently serves as the Senior Advisor to the COGH Director and the acting Director of the Division of Global Preparedness and Program Coordination. Nick came to CDC in 1986 via Detroit, Michigan, where he worked in a local health department (STD Public Health Advisor); he joined CDC Headquarters in 1989. During his 22 year career with CDC he has supported HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, immunization, other infectious diseases, chronic disease, environmental health, and injury prevention programs at the domestic and international levels.

He started his international work in 1998; this work in Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe has been in support of Guinea Worm Eradication, polio eradication, measles mortality reduction, influenza, malaria prevention and control, HIV/AIDS program development, corporate partnership development and government relations. From 2001-2004, Nick was seconded to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) as a Senior Program Officer in the Africa Department.

He worked with the IFRC and other key partners in the development of long-term approaches to public health challenges. In July 2004, he returned to the US and CDC Headquarters and was charged to facilitate the reorganization of CDC’s global health efforts.