Dr. O’Carroll is an EIS-trained
medical epidemiologist with the Public Health Practice Program Office
(PHPPO), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
He is currently assigned to the
University of Washington an Executive Fellow in Public Health Informatics.
Prior to this assignment, Dr. O'Carroll served as the Associate Director
for Health Informatics at PHPPO/CDC, in which capacity he directed the
national Health Alert Network program. In a previous assignment to the
State of Washington Dr.
O'Carroll served as the Director of the Northwest
Center for Public Health Practice, where he developed one of the nation’s first
public health informatics training courses and led a variety of
information systems development and research projects.
Dr. O'Carroll has now worked in the field of public health informatics
for almost a decade. He co-led the development of CDC WONDER (an
on-line system providing remote, ad hoc query access to CDC's
scientific databases), and was lead scientist for the CDC Prevention
Guidelines Database project. Prior to his informatics work, Dr.
O'Carroll worked in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at CDC, where he led the epidemiology
research unit that addresses the prevention of suicide and violence.
In addition to his CDC responsibilities, Dr. O'Carroll holds Affiliate
Associate Professor appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology
and Health Services at the University of Washington School of Public
Health and Community Medicine.
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