CAPT Mott, is the Branch Chief of the Epidemiology Workforce Branch, Division of Scientific Education and Professional Development, and Chief of the EIS Program. He is also a Captain in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service.

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In today’s world, the next pandemic may be literally only a plane ride away. Public health relies on a well-prepared workforce that can respond to such threats and stop them in their tracks. CAPT Mott serves at the helm of the CDC’s Epidemiology Workforce Branch, which is home to the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). For more than 60 years, the EIS program has been training physicians, scientists, and other health care professionals to be response-ready epidemiologists.

CAPT Mott is an EIS alumni (EIS 1998–2000), with experience in environmental health, injury prevention, biothreat and emergency preparedness and response, and influenza and pandemic preparedness. In addition to spending childhood years in the countries of Nigeria and Kenya, CAPT Mott has worked at the WHO Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen Denmark, and served as the CDC Influenza Program Director in Nairobi, Kenya. With this background he also understands and practices the notion that safer U.S. borders means establishing strong relationships and surveillance networks overseas. Now, as Chief of the EIS program, CAPT Mott’s vision is to respect the program’s cherished heritage while integrating new training, technologies, and partnerships to keep our nation’s field epidemiologists ready for emerging and future challenges.