David Roberts, MPH

Mr. David Roberts, MPH began his career with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2009 as a Public Health Advisor in the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, & TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention (DSTDP), Field Services Branch (FSB) as a field assignee to the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) in Chicago, IL.  In this position, he served in various capacities which included quality assurance for Chicago Syphilis Elimination, collaborating with CDPH staff with HIV Prevention Projects and the Community Development Block Grant, and in disease intervention as a Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS).

Before accepting his current position, he served as a Senior Public Health Advisor in the role of a Project Officer in the Division of HIV Prevention (DHP), Program Development and Implementation Branch (PDIB). In that role, he provided consultative services to the most difficult programs or projects that have unusually demanding social, economic, cultural, governmental, and political conditions requiring the planning, development, and evaluation of matters of general precedent, or wide coordination.

Mr. Roberts currently serves as the Deputy Branch Chief for the Program Services Branch (PSB) located in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at CDC. In this role he is the principal management official for the PSB and principal advisor to the Branch Chief and Division Management Official. This includes but is not limited to determining branch strategic direction; setting branch goals and objectives; demonstrating knowledge and proficiency with HR policies and procedures and systems and collaborating with division leadership.

Mr. Roberts received a Master of Public Health from Jackson State University in Jackson, MS, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Grambling State University in Grambling, LA.