Deputy Director of the Office of Scientific Evidence and Recommendations

Staff Bio

David Scharf, MPH

Deputy Director of the Office of Scientific Evidence and Recommendations (OSER) in the Office of Science.

David Scharf

CDC role

David Scharf, MPH, is the Deputy Director for the Office of Scientific Evidence and Recommendations. In this role, he oversees management and operations for the program and operational support to the Community Preventive Services Task Force.

Previous experience

Mr. Scharf joined CDC in 1997 as member of the first class of Public Health Prevention Service fellows. Most recently he served as Senior Public Health Advisor and Deputy Director for the Division of Global Health Protection’s Strategic Science Office.

While in DGHP, Mr. Scharf supported CDC global response to COVID-19 and Ebola, including project management of the 2017 Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal’s special supplement on global health security.

Mr. Scharf also worked in the CDC Office of the Chief of Staff and helped coordinate strategy and innovation across CDC infectious disease activities.

Education

Mr. Scharf completed his MPH degree with a concentration in epidemiology at the San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health and holds an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Occidental College in Los Angeles.