About
Dr. Anthony Tran is the Director of the California Public Health Laboratory and Deputy Director of the Center for Laboratory Sciences in the California Department of Public Health.
Experience
Dr. Anthony Tran has been the Director of the California Public Health Laboratory and Deputy Director of the Center for Laboratory Sciences, an executive-staff-level focus for laboratory science policy issues and coordination since December 2022. He recently served as Director of the FDA's San Francisco Laboratory, overseeing the microbiological and chemical analysis of human and animal food products to help protect the nation's food supply.
Dr. Tran is a board-certified microbiologist and clinical laboratory scientist with nearly 20 years of public health and clinical laboratory experience at national, federal, state, and local levels and also serves on the Association of Public Health Laboratories' Board of Directors.