John Redd | CMO
The Medical Countermeasures Coalition

Dr. John Redd is an internist and medical epidemiologist who serves as Chief Medical Officer of the Medical Countermeasures Coalition.  John began his federal career as a clinical internist with the US Indian Health Service (IHS) in Shiprock, New Mexico. Following two years of training with CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, he served in positions with CDC (The Center for Global Health, Center for Public Health Preparedness and Response, and Division of Viral Hepatitis), IHS (Chief of the Infectious Diseases Branch), and HHS Headquarters (Chief Medical Officer for the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response). During the COVID-19 response he directed the Healthcare Resilience Task Force, led HHS teams supervising national allocation and distribution of new therapeutics, including remdesivir and monoclonal antibodies, and led field response teams in California and Japan. He received his BA from Harvard College and his MD from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and earned a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology degree at Columbia University in New York. He was elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians in 2002 and was a 2010-2011 Public Health Leadership Institute Scholar. He is the co-author of over ninety publications.