Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services
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Sharunda D. Buchanan, PhD Director Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services National Center for Environmental Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Dr. Sharunda Buchanan currently serves as the Director of the Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services at CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health.
Dr. Buchanan received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry and Toxicology from Texas Southern University and her doctorate degree in Biochemistry from Clark Atlanta University. In 1990, Dr. Buchanan joined the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) as an Environmental Health Scientist in the Division of Toxicology. Later she joined CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Officer assigned to the Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects (DEHHE). During her tenure with DEHHE, Dr. Buchanan greatly contributed to the expansion of the National Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program and a Healthy Homes Research Agenda. In 2001, Dr. Buchanan became Chief of the Environmental Health Services Branch and served in this capacity until becoming Director of the Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services.
As a recognized leader in the field of environmental public health practice, Dr. Buchanan is committed to developing future leaders and maintaining a national agenda that seeks to improve emergency and environmental public health services across the country. Dr. Buchanan led CDC’s Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services in the development of the important lighthouse document, A National Strategy to Revitalize Environmental Public Health Services in the United States. The goals outlined in the strategy highlight objectives for improving local environmental health services that will, in turn, establish an effective and efficient national environmental health services system capable of anticipating, identifying and controlling existing and emerging environmentally related health threats. Dr. Buchanan and her husband, Marcus, have two children: Kayla and Nicholas.