Associate Director of Science and Public Health Practice

Sam Groseclose, DVM, MPH, DACVPM

Dr. Sam Groseclose is Associate Director for Science in the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).   He leads the Office of Science and Public Health Practice which promotes the application of science to improve public health practice in preparedness and response and coordinates the activities of OPHPR’s Board of Scientific Counselors and Office of Applied Research.  Prior to joining OPHPR, Dr. Groseclose was the Associate Director for Science in CDC’s Division of Notifiable Diseases and Healthcare Information and contributed to the leadership and management of the BioSense Program, an all-hazard, near real-time electronic syndromic surveillance system, and the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) and directed surveillance evaluation projects.  He has served as chief of the Statistics and Data Management Branch in the Division of STD Prevention, CDC and chief of the Surveillance Systems Branch in CDC’s Epidemiology Program Office responsible for the NNDSS, the 122 Cities Mortality Reporting System, and the Medical Examiner and Coroner Information Sharing Program.  Dr. Groseclose has over 30 years of experience in public health surveillance and informatics at the city, state, and federal public health system levels.  

Dr. Groseclose holds a veterinary medical degree from The Ohio State University, a Master of Public Health from The Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor of Science in biology from Hampden-Sydney College. He was an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with CDC assigned to the Connecticut Department of Health Services. Dr. Groseclose is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine and member of the College’s Epidemiology Specialty.