About CERTs
Steering Committee
Richard Platt, MD, MS
Dr. Platt is the Principal Investigator of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sponsored Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics, an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sponsored HMO Research Network Center for CERTs. He is also Co-Principal Investigator of a Modeling Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) and the CDC sponsored Eastern Massachusetts Prevention Epicenter. Dr. Platt is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School. He is an internist trained in infectious diseases and epidemiology.
Dr. Platt is a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges Advisory Panel on Research, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee, and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Evidenced-Based Medicine. He has chaired the Executive Committee of the HMO Research Network, was Co-Chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the CDC's Center for Infectious Diseases, chaired the National Institutes of Health (NIH) study section, Epidemiology and Disease Control 2, and the CDC Office of Health Care Partnerships Steering Committee.