Dr. Puddy is the Director of the Policy Research, Analysis, and Development Office (PRADO) in the Office of the Associate Director for Policy (OADP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In this role he provides leadership, oversight and strategic guidance on conducting policy and economic research and analyses, translating CDC science to inform policy action, increasing CDC policy analytic capacity, and overseeing CDC policy review. He also provides guidance and leadership on the integration of public health and health care across the spectrum of prevention at CDC and serves as both the Associate Director for Science and Acting Deputy Director in OADP. Prior to this position, Dr. Puddy served as the Chief of the Prevention Practice and Translation Branch in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control’s Division of Violence Prevention. Dr. Puddy’s portfolio focused on preventing child maltreatment, youth violence, self-directed violence, intimate partner violence, and sexual violence. He oversaw The Understanding Evidence Project (including the Continuum of Evidence of Effectiveness) and the application of the Interactive Systems Framework for Dissemination and Implementation. Dr. Puddy joined CDC in March 2007 and has more than 27 years of experience in programmatic, policy, and scientific application of behavioral and social science skills to enhance public health outcomes. He earned a PhD in Clinical Child Psychology from the University of Kansas and a MPH from the University of Kansas Medical Center, completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Penn State University’s Prevention Research Center, and served as a faculty member at the University of South Florida’s Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute where he worked forging partnerships between the university and community as well as conducting research on Systems of Care for children’s mental health. His personal research interests include evidence-based policy and decision-making, complex adaptive systems, and dissemination/implementation research.