Dennis Lenaway, PhD, MPH

Director, Office of Standards and Emerging Issues in Practice
Office of the Chief of Public Health Practice
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

As Director of the Office of Standards and Emerging Issues in Practice, Dr. Lenaway provides overall leadership and management of the Standards and Improvement in Practice, Research and Policy Development, and Emerging Issues in Practice program areas. Previously, Dr. Lenaway served as the Acting Director for the Division of Public Health Systems Development and Research, Public Health Practice Program Office at CDC.

Prior to coming to CDC in 2002, Dr. Lenaway spent 16 years at the Boulder County Health Department, Boulder, Colorado where he was responsible for all community health planning, agency strategic planning, research and evaluation, communicable disease control, HIV prevention and needle exchange, and TB prevention. In Colorado, Dr. Lenaway was a board member of the Colorado Association of Local Public Health Leaders, a founding member of the Colorado Health Data Advisory Council, and was on the faculty of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. As an epidemiologist and health planner, Dr. Lenaway has an extensive history of working in nearly all aspects of public health practice. He received his MPH and PhD in epidemiology from the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine.

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