Staff Bio
Chad Heilig, PhD, is the Associate Director for Informatics and Data Science in the Public Health Infrastructure Center.
Role at CDC
Dr. Heilig integrates science, data, information, and technology in support of the center’s strategic public health informatics and data modernization initiatives. He believes that everyone who wants to do good things with data should have the support to do so.
Previous experience
Prior to this role, Dr. Heilig was the Associate Director for Data Science within the former CDC Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (CSELS). In this role, Dr. Heilig applied and integrated data sciences into public health practice and research to better serve the CDC science community around data and surveillance issues. During his time in CSELS, Dr. Heilig supported the CDC Surveillance Strategy, ensured ethical stewardship of our many data repositories, and promoted efforts to analyze, interpret, and present evidence from data. Dr. Heilig came to CSELS from the CDC Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE), where he led planning and integration of data sciences, mentored students and fellows in data sciences, and spearheaded Tuberculosis Trials Consortium efforts to strengthen the design, analysis, inference, and interpretation of clinical trials for treating latent and active tuberculosis.
Dr. Heilig has also worked within the CDC Office of Science (formerly the Office of the Chief Science Officer) on research ethics and human subject research protections and with the Division of Reproductive Health on issues around the health of women with or at risk for HIV.