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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Leadership and Contracting Organization

Current as of August 25, 2026 • Director: Erica Schwartz (confirmed Aug 5, 2026) • Sources: cdc.gov/about/leadership · HHS HCA roster
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A permanent Director, an acting bench. Dr. Erica Schwartz was Senate-confirmed August 5, 2026 (51-44), the first permanent CDC Director in roughly a year, after Susan Monarez was fired 29 days into the job and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya ran the agency dual-hatted. Below her, 8 of 12 centers and several OD offices are led by Acting directors, the Chief of Staff seat is unlisted, and no CIO is named on any live official page. Also worth knowing: the March 2025 HHS restructuring said NIOSH and ATSDR move to the new Administration for a Healthy America and ASPR folds into CDC, but as of today the official CDC and HHS acquisition listings still show the pre-reorg structure.
Office of the Director
Director · Senate-Confirmed
Erica Schwartz, MD, MPH, JD
CDC Director · Administrator, ATSDR
Confirmed Aug 5, 2026 · retired USPHS rear admiral, former Deputy Surgeon General
Front Office
Principal Deputy
Sean Slovenski
Principal Deputy Director · Chief Operating Officer
Medicine
Jennifer Shuford, MD, MPH
Deputy Director · Chief Medical Officer
Public Affairs
Caroline DeBerry
Acting Deputy Director for Public Affairs · Senior Advisor to the Director
Acting
Legislative
Stephen Sayle
Deputy Director for Legislative Affairs
Global Health
Matthew Ferreira, DVM, MPH, MS
Deputy Director for Global Health
Chief of Staff
Not listed
The Chief of Staff bio page now 404s; Politico reported Matthew Buzzelli left for HHS in July 2026 (pending official confirmation). No successor named.
Unlisted
Offices Federal Health IT Readers Track
Data Modernization
Matt Ritchey, PT, DPT, MPH
Acting Director, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology (OPHDST)
Acting
Information Technology
No CIO named
Office of the CIO (under the COO). No incumbent appears on any live official CDC page.
Unlisted
Forecasting
Jason Asher, PhD
Director, Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA)
Health Statistics
Carolyn Greene, MD
Acting Director, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Acting
Readiness
Henry Walke, MD, MPH
Director, Office of Readiness and Response
Laboratories
Reynolds M. Salerno, PhD
Director, Office of Laboratory Systems and Response
Science
Althea Grant-Lenzy, PhD, MSS
Director, Office of Science
Global Health Center
Paige Alexandra Armstrong, MD, MHS
Director, Global Health Center
The Contracting Chain
HCA · Acting
Christine Godfrey
Head of Contracting Activity (Acting)
Confirmed current on the HHS HCA roster (reviewed Apr 27, 2026; fetched Aug 25, 2026) · cnp9@cdc.gov
Acting
Parent Office
Office of Financial Resources (OFR)
Stewards CDC funding through contracts and grants; performs the CFO function. Current OFR director not named on a live official page.
Contracting Shop
Office of Acquisition Services (OAS)
CDC's contracting operation, within OFR. 10,881 contract actions totaling $7.9B in FY2023 (the most recent figure CDC publishes). Current OAS director not named on a live official page.
What the acting-heavy bench means for capture: with the HCA, OPHDST, NCHS, NCIRD, NCEZID, and several other centers all Acting, program-side relationships outlast the org chart. Data modernization requirements still originate in OPHDST and CFA; the buying decision runs through OFR/OAS under an Acting HCA. Expect signature authority to be conservative until permanent leadership lands.
Sources. CDC leadership roster (verified 2026-08-25, cdc.gov/about/leadership). Schwartz official bio (cdc.gov, page dated 2026-08-12). HHS HCA and Key Managers roster (hhs.gov, content reviewed 2026-04-27, fetched 2026-08-25). CDC contracting structure (cdc.gov/contracts/about). HHS restructuring fact sheet (hhs.gov, March 2025). Confirmation vote and chief-of-staff departure: NPR, NBC News, Politico Pro reporting, annotated in-line where pending official confirmation. Data current as of August 25, 2026.

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