The CDC Leaders

“It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.”

—Ella Fitzgerald

Anne C. Haddix, PhD

Acting Chief of the Office of Strategy and Innovation

Anne C. Haddix, PhD, is acting Chief of the Office of Strategy and Innovation and acting Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer. She has been CDC’s Chief Policy Officer since May 2006 and serves as a principal advisor to the CDC Director. She is responsible for providing leadership and long-term perspective on policy development, review, and analysis for CDC’s role in improving the public's health. She also serves as CDC’s Chief Regulatory Policy Officer. Anne is a member of the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research and is playing a pivotal role in CDC’s efforts to influence health reform.

Anne joined CDC/ATSDR in 1992 in the former Prevention Effectiveness Branch in the Epidemiology Program Office as the first PhD-trained economist at CDC. She later became the chief of the Prevention Effectiveness Branch. Along with former CDC employee Dr. Steven Teutsch, Anne founded and successfully cultivated economic analysis as a scientific discipline at CDC, eventually training more than 2,000 CDC staff, and also establishing the Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship program. Anne left CDC in 1998 to become an associate professor in the Department of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, but returned to CDC in 2004.

She received her PhD in agricultural economics in 1993 from the University of Georgia. She graduated from California State University Fresno in 1985 with an MS in agricultural economics. She received her BA in biology from California State University Fresno in 1979.