Staff Bio
Kip Baggett, M.D., M.P.H.
Global Health Center (GHC)
Dr. Baggett is Acting Director for the Division of Global Health Protection. In this position, he leads CDC's global work to strengthen health systems, build outbreak response capacity, and meet international standards for global health security.
CDC role
Dr. Baggett directs CDC's efforts to build and strengthen health systems worldwide and help countries prepare for public health emergencies to create a safer world and safer America.
Previous experience
Prior to his current role, Dr. Baggett served as the Acting Principal Deputy Director of DGHP, and before that as DGHP's Chief of the Global Workforce Development Branch, which leads CDC's support for Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETP), the agency's flagship global workforce development program.
From 2014-2016, Dr. Baggett served as the FETP Resident Advisor in Zambia, where he helped the Ministry of Health to launch its program. Complementing this FETP work, he also supported the development of Zambia's National Public Health Institute.
Before moving to Zambia in 2014, Dr. Baggett served as Epidemiology Lead and then DGHP Program Director in CDC's Thailand country office, where he launched a new five-year strategy and initiated engagement on the Global Health Security Agenda.
Areas of expertise
Dr. Baggett is a medical epidemiologist and public health expert with over 20 years of experience in workforce development, field epidemiology, and global health security.
Education
Dr. Baggett received a Master of Public Health in epidemiology from the University of Washington in Seattle and has completed CDC's Preventive Medicine Residency. Dr. Baggett completed his medical degree at the University of North Carolina and obtained his pediatrics training at Johns Hopkins Children's Hospital in Baltimore. A Captain in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, he is board certified in pediatrics and general preventive medicine.