Board of Directors - 2010

Tony Santarsiero

Anthony Santarsiero

Ex-Officio

Anthony J. (Tony) Santarsiero is currently under contract with the McKing Consulting Corporation as the senior advisor/consultant to the Office of Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (OTPER) in the Office of the Director (OD), National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In his current position, he serves as an advisor and consultant to the senior management team, in addition to the programmatic areas of environmental health terrorism preparedness and emergency response, capabilities based planning, pandemic influenza capabilities based planning and technical assistance, and public health system partnerships development.

Tony retired from the CDC on January 3, 2007, after 35 years of Federal service. In his previous position from which he retired, he served as the CDC public health partnership manager and project officer for CDC’s and ATSDR’s national public health systems partnership organizations, including the National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH), Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), Public Health Foundation (PHF), American Public Health Association (APHA), National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI), and Partnership for Prevention (PfP). In this capacity, he served as a program consultant and advocate for advising on the planning, development, and execution of core public health infrastructure activities and special projects related to strengthening the capacity of the public health system and promoting the public health roles of assessment, policy development, and assurance to build and strengthen public health infrastructure.

Tony is also retired from the United States Air Force Medical Service Corps as a Hospital and Health Services Administrator in the rank of Colonel, and is a graduate of the Air War College. One of the highlights during his career was the mobilization of over 2,500 medical service personnel in support of Operations Desert Shield/Storm in 1990 and 1991.

Tony has a BBA degree in finance from The University of Georgia and a MBA degree from Florida Technological University. He is also a Recertified Life Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives; a graduate of the National Public Health Leadership Institute at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in which his team was recognized with the Tom Balderson Award for Outstanding Team Leadership; and has been presented the President’s Award from NALBOH.

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