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Chris provides high-level, organization-wide, collaborative direction and support to NNPHI programs, staff, member institutes and partners to ensure effective alignment of strategies, resources, and program outcomes. Based in Atlanta, GA, Chris provides support and oversight to NNPHI staff and contractors implementing a wide range of capacity building projects and initiatives through federally-funded mechanisms and private foundation awards. Chris supports NNPHI’s Artificial Intelligence Use Cases in Public Health affinity group. He also serves as AOR/ Principal Investigator for several of NNPHI’s cooperative agreements with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focused on public health workforce, infrastructure, data systems, and policy related to prevention of chronic and infectious diseases.
Chris’s multidisciplinary background in social work and public health guides his professional mission: to improve public health through building and maintaining partnerships across sectors. Chris interned at the Louisiana Public Health Institute in its early days and became passionate about the institute model. Throughout his career he has been drawn to commercial tobacco prevention and control given its high impact on preventing death and disability. Chris was Esri’s Public Health Specialist from 2005-2010, linking public health geographic information systems users worldwide as a liaison to the public health sector. Over the past 20 years he has developed expertise in nonprofit business operations as well as strategic and tactical success with planning and implementing public health projects and initiatives.
Chris graduated from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Tulane School of Social Work in New Orleans, Louisiana and Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.