Mehran S. Massoudi, PhD, MPH
CAPT, US Public Health Service (USPHS)
Regional Health Administrator
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, HHS
Region 6 

Mehran S. Massoudi, PhD, MPH was appointed Regional Health Administrator for Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Region VI, in October 2016. He is the senior federal health official representing the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and the Office of the Surgeon General in Region 6. Region 6 is the third most populated among the 10 HHS regions, having a large ethnic and racially diverse population and the second largest Hispanic population in the country, covering two-thirds of the US-Mexico Border.   

Prior to joining OASH, Dr. Massoudi served as Branch Chief for the Applied Research and Translation Branch and the Director of the Prevention Research Centers (PRC) Program at CDC in Atlanta GA. In addition to the PRC Program, the Branch also included the Healthy Aging and the Workplace Health Programs. Over the course of his professional career, he has served as a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in 1994, the science advisor to the Smallpox Team at CDC, the SARS Surveillance Team Lead in CDC’s SARS Task Force, and the Associate Director for Science in several Units within CDC. From 2005 to 2007, he oversaw the development of the Afghan Public Health Institute within the Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health.   

CAPT Massoudi has also completed five international deployments for CDC and the World Health Organization as part of the Polio Eradication Initiative. He has also traveled to Haiti as part of the Department’s health and medical response, and most recently, deployed as Lead for the Epi Team in Grand Cape Mount, Liberia for the Ebola Response. CAPT Massoudi holds a PhD in epidemiology and an MPH degree from the University of Pittsburgh.