Staff Bio
Timothy Carney, PhD, MPH, MBA
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)
Dr. Carney is responsible for the strategic direction of technology in NCCDPHP and for oversight, operations, development, and security of information systems that support programs and grantees.
Role at CDC
Dr. Carney is the associate director for informatics for CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP). He is responsible for the strategic direction of technology in the center and for oversight, operations, development, and security of information systems that support programs and grantees.
Previous experience
Dr. Carney entered the CDC in 1998 as a CDC public health informatics fellow in the Public Health Practice Program Office and served in NCCDPHP as an informatics specialist from 2000 to 2007. He returned to CDC in 2019 in his current role.
Dr. Carney has practiced in the field of informatics for over 20 years. Current informatics research and applied informatics practice areas include leveraging health it for health equity/health disparities; chronic disease surveillance; public health intelligence; computational modeling of social and organizational systems; network analysis; electronic clinical decision support; cbpr-community-based knowledge exchange networks; it needs, capabilities, and readiness assessment design; and public health situational awareness. His informatics efforts focus on the evaluation of health information technology as an agent of change in intelligent and adaptive learning health systems.
Previously, Dr. Carney was the director of health policy research, data science and analytics at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute in the Morehouse School of Medicine and before that the senior director, data analytics and public health informatics at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Dr. Carney also served as full-time informatics faculty at the University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill School of Public Health from 2012 to 2017 and still teaches as adjunct in the UNC School of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management.