Mark L. Rosenberg, M.D., M.P.P.
Mark L. Rosenberg is married to Jill Dimond and has two children, Julie and Benjamin. His professional life has been committed to scientific research, public health service, and showing the human side of illness and injury through documentary photography. He has worked in government, academia, and the private nonprofit sector. He currently serves as Executive Director of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, a nonprofit public health organization that works collaboratively with partners worldwide to advance health and human development through innovation in public health practice.
Before assuming his current position, Dr. Rosenberg served 20 years with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including early work in smallpox eradication, enteric diseases, and HIV/AIDS. He contributed his public health perspective to violence and unintentional injury prevention for more than half of his CDC career and was instrumental in establishing a National Center to focus on injury surveillance, research, and prevention. Dr. Rosenberg was named Acting Associate Director for Public Health Practice when the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control was formed, became the first permanent director in 1994, and served as director until 1999. There he helped to design and develop the first Center-based extramural research grant program at CDC.
Dr. Rosenberg’s public health commitment with a special interest in injury control and violence prevention continues. The Task Force is currently serving as the secretariat for a coalition working to promote global road traffic safety in developing nations. Members of this coalition include: The Bone and Joint Decade, The FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society, UNICEF, UNDP, The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, The World Health Organization, The World Bank and The Task Force for Child Survival and Development. Dr. Rosenberg is a member of the Institute of Medicine. He is on the board of directors of the American Suicide Foundation and served on both the board of directors and board of delegates of the National Safety Council. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior and Violence, Aggression, and Terrorism as well as the co-editor-in-chief of the international journal Injury Control and Safety Promotion.
Dr. Rosenberg has broad experience in medicine, public health, and public policy. He is board certified in both psychiatry and internal medicine with training in public policy. He was educated at Harvard University where he received his undergraduate degree as well as degrees in public policy and medicine. He completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, a residency in psychiatry at the Boston Beth Israel Hospital, and a residency in preventive medicine at the CDC. He is on the faculty at Morehouse Medical School, Emory Medical School, and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
Dr. Rosenberg’s research and programmatic interests include global health, collaborative ventures, child well-being, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis. He is the author of Patients: The Experience of Illness; Violence in America: A Public Health Approach, and more than 130 scientific publications. He has received the Surgeon General's Exemplary Service Medal as well as the Meritorious Service Medal, Distinguished Service Medal, and Outstanding Service Medals from the US Public Health Service.