Staff Bio
Nancy Habarta, MPH, serves as the Director of the Office of Data Reporting and Evaluation in the Public Health Infrastructure Center at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Role at CDC
Ms. Habarta leads the direction of agency-wide evaluation efforts to assess the effectiveness of CDC services and support to state, local, tribal, and territorial health departments and other public health organizations. These evaluations also inform the agency's continuous improvement efforts for greater efficiency, effectiveness, and health outcomes. Ms. Habarta also guides innovative measurement and implementation science efforts to contribute to the evidence of what works to improve the public health system.
Previous experience
Before joining the Public Health Infrastructure Center, Ms. Habarta served as chief of the Performance Development, Evaluation, and Training Branch in the Division of Performance Improvement and Field Services, in the former CDC Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support. She served as Associate Director for Evaluation for the Division of Public Health Information Dissemination within the former CDC Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services. In that role, Ms. Habarta directed evaluation activities for the Office of the Director and the Division of Public Health Information Dissemination programs, including MMWR, Vital Signs, the Stephen B. Thacker Library, The Guide to Community Preventive Services, and the Office of Public Health Genomics. She developed systems to provide oversight of performance monitoring, strategic planning, and technical evaluation activities to demonstrate public health impact and value.
Ms. Habarta began her federal service as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zimbabwe in 1998 and began her career at CDC at The Guide to Community Preventive Services, performing systematic reviews on worksite health promotion and cancer-related interventions to determine the effectiveness of population-based public health interventions. She then served as part of the monitoring and evaluation team in the Global AIDS Program to build capacity for monitoring and evaluation within focus countries, develop the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief indicators, and conduct evaluation activities in multiple countries. Ms. Habarta then worked within the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, where she performed monitoring and evaluation activities and quantitative data analyses with national-level HIV counselling and testing data.