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Richard Holland Presidential Chair and Dean, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health

Ali S. Khan, M.D., is the Richard Holland Presidential Chair and Dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He is a former Assistant Surgeon General with the US Public Health Service. His career has focused on health security, global health, climate change, health disparities, and emerging infections.

He completed a 23-year career as a senior director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he led and responded to numerous high profile domestic and international public health responses. Dr. Khan was one of the main architects of CDC’s national health security program. He currently serves on the executive committee for WHO’s Global Alert and Outbreak Response Network. Dr Khan is also the author of The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind’s Gravest Dangers and co-editor of the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual.

He received his M.D. from Downstate Medical University, completed a residency in med-peds at the University of Michigan, followed by his M.P.H. from Emory University and M.B.A. from University of Nebraska-Omaha.