Staff Bio
Raegan Tuff, PhD, MPH
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)
Dr. Tuff works closely with center leaders and staff to provide leadership and strategic, innovative direction on policies, programmatic activities, partnerships, analytic approaches, and overall operations for health equity and the social determinants of health.
CDC role
Dr. Tuff is the acting senior advisor for health equity and the social determinants of health (HE/SDOH) in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP). As an integral part of the center's senior leadership team, Dr. Tuff works closely with center leaders and staff to provide leadership and strategic, innovative direction on policies, programmatic activities, partnerships, analytic approaches, and overall operations for HE/SDOH.
Previous experience
Since 2022, Dr. Tuff has served as one of the co-chairs of the NCCDPHP Health Equity Council, coordinating actions across divisions to advance health equity in alignment with NCCDPHP's strategic vision and related priorities.
Dr. Tuff's career has been dedicated to addressing chronic and infectious disease disparities, particularly in heart disease, obesity, breast cancer, HIV, and Zika, focusing on people from diverse racial and ethnic groups, such as American Indian and Alaska Native, Black and African American, and Hispanic and Latino populations.
Currently with NCCDPHP's Office of Informatics and Information Resources Management, Dr. Tuff has provided oversight of the center's first cloud-based, low-code platform for post-award grants management. The platform supports our divisions, the Office of the Director, and 4,500 internal and external users, including project officers, leaders, and award recipients.
A two-time CDC/ATSDR Honor Awardee (for Science & Program and Management & Operations), Dr. Tuff promotes health equity science as a member of the editorial board of Preventing Chronic Disease.