Herbert Wolfe is the Division’s Appearing Chief Medical Officer and the Appearing Director of the Workplace of Well being Safety (OHS), overseeing all medical, public well being and workforce well being and security actions with obligations for border well being safety, meals, agriculture and well being resilience, whole workforce safety, well being informatics, regional medical operations and FSLTT well being engagement.
Dr. Wolfe joined DHS in September 2019 following a distinguished profession in authorities service. Highlights embody serving as Director for Medical and Public Well being Preparedness Coverage on the White Home Nationwide Safety Council and Chief Audit Government for the U.S. Division of Veterans Affairs Veterans Well being Administration. Earlier than becoming a member of VHA, Dr. Wolfe was Senior Adviser to the Director on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention’s Nationwide Middle for Environmental Well being and the Company for Poisonous Substances and Illness Registry, chargeable for making certain the company fulfilled its mission of utilizing the very best science in public well being to forestall and mitigate dangerous exposures and illnesses associated to poisonous substances. On this function he was the senior CDC official deployed to Flint, Michigan, to steer the company’s response to the consuming water public well being emergency. Previous to his tenure at Well being and Human Providers, Dr. Wolfe served as a Technical Intelligence Officer on the Central Intelligence Company and because the Director for Combating WMD and Contingency Operations at america Navy Workplace of the Surgeon Normal.
From 1998 to 2002, Dr. Wolfe was a doctor assistant within the U.S. Public Well being Service, finishing his household drugs fellowship on the Claremore Indian Hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma. His excursions of responsibility included scientific assignments with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and america Navy. He additionally deployed with the U.S. Public Well being Service to NYC Floor Zero within the days following 9/11, offering medical care to first responders. He holds a PhD in biodefense and is taken into account an knowledgeable in well being safety, public well being emergency administration and homeland protection operations. Dr. Wolfe was promoted to the Senior Government Service in 2017 and started his federal profession with america Division of Agriculture in 1993.
