Pennsylvania Department of Health
Room 933 Health & Welfare Building
625 Forster Street
Harrisburg
PAUSA
17120-0701
Biographical Sketch:
Since 2007, Dr. Ostroff has been the director of the Bureau of Epidemiology of the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PADOH). He also serves as the Acting Physician General for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Before these appointments, he had a 21-year career with the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), most of that time at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. He retired from CDC in 2005, and before joining the PADOH worked in Honolulu with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) as the DHHS representative to the Pacific Islands, and as a consultant to the World Bank on public health projects in the South Asia region. While at CDC, Dr. Ostroff was Assistant Surgeon General, USPHS, and Deputy Director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID).