Dr. Mark Rosenberg, of counsel

Dr. Mark Rosenberg was instrumental in establishing CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and became its first permanent director.

He also served as Assistant Surgeon General. He was president and CEO of The Task Force for Global Health from 2000-2016. Under his leadership, The Task Force grew to be one of the largest nonprofit organizations in the country and is instrumental in providing people in the developing world with greater access to vaccines for influenza, cholera, and other deadly diseases, and medicines for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.

Dr. Rosenberg was an influential voice in persuading the United Nations to recognize road safety as a public health issue.

His leadership is characterized by a commitment to collaboration and compassion in global health. He was the lead author of Real Collaboration: What it Takes for Global Health to Succeed, which describes a model for global health collaboration that has been successfully applied to address health needs affecting the world’s most impoverished people.