Arthur P. Liang, MD, MPH

Arthur P. Liang MD MPH is a Public Health physician and epidemiologist with over 40 years’ experience, including outbreak response and emergency preparedness at federal, state, local and international levels, with a focus in Communicable Disease Control in general, and foodborne illness in particular. He is a former Director of the CDC Food Safety Office, CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer, and Chief of the Communicable Disease Division, Hawaii Department of Health. Every year, he teaches incoming EIS Officers about foodborne outbreak investigation. He has served on the Executive Committee of the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods. He has been a member of the Preventive Medicine Residency Advisory Committee for the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine. He is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health. He has a BA from Oberlin College, an MPH in International Health and Epidemiology from the University of Hawaii, and MD from the University of Maryland. As Director of the CDC Food Safety Office, the Office funded and oversaw major improvements to foodborne disease outbreak surveillance and outbreak investigation across the CDC, including CaliciNet, a national norovirus outbreak surveillance network of federal, state, and local public health laboratories, PulseNet, EHS-Net, FoodNet, and the Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR), including the development of the CIFOR’s Guidelines for Foodborne Disease Outbreak Response. He has provided consultation and collaboration to public health agencies in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central America, and the Pacific Rim.