Staff Bio
Gabbi Promoff, MA
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)
Ms. Promoff oversees the communication portfolio for NCCDPHP, setting the strategic direction for the center’s internal and external communication efforts.
Role at CDC
Ms. Promoff is the associate director for communication science in CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), a position she assumed in 2016. She oversees the communication portfolio for NCCDPHP, which has nine divisions and offices, over 1,100 staff members, and a budget over $1.4 billion. Ms. Promoff sets the strategic direction for the center’s internal and external communication efforts.
Previous experience
Ms. Promoff joined CDC in 2005, working in NCCDPHP's Office on Smoking and Health (OSH). She served as OSH's associate director for policy, providing expertise and strategic direction on tobacco control policy. Ms. Promoff led the earned media efforts for Tips From Former Smokers®, the first-ever paid national tobacco education campaign, which profiles real people who live with serious long-term health effects from smoking and secondhand smoke, and led the release of several seminal Surgeon General Reports on tobacco. Ms. Promoff has actively supported public health emergencies, including providing communications support for the agency's Ebola, EVALI, and COVID-19 responses.
Before joining CDC, Ms. Promoff worked at Golin, a global public relations firm, providing social marketing expertise, including launching Truth Initiative's truth® campaign and supporting tobacco prevention and control movements in more than 10 states.