Nelson Arboleda
Director, Office of the Americas, US Department of Health and Human Services
Dr. Nelson Arboleda is the Director of the Office of the Americas within the Secretary’s Office at the Department of Health and Human Services. In this role he serves as the Secretary’s senior point of contact for interaction with the Americas region, which includes North, Central, South America and the Caribbean. Dr. Arboleda received his training in Public Health at the University of Miami and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and joined the CDC in 2004 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer with the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program within the National Center for Infectious Diseases. He has worked with the CDC leading the Vaccine Safety Office’s efforts on Pandemic Preparedness and Emergency Response; as well as steering the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) in conjunction with the FDA. His global health assignments include a secondment to WHO with the polio eradication initiative in Madhya Pradesh, India; the consolidation of the national health surveillance system in Honduras; as a program development delegate in Venezuela and Colombia, He was also selected as the Commander of the Zika unified Command Group (UCG) in Puerto Rico under the NSC.
