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Steven A. Adams is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Center for the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS). Over the past 30 years, Adams has held various leadership roles in contingency response programs and public health initiatives, ranging from HIV field epidemiology to managing studies to determine the health impacts to civilians from Cold War-era nuclear weapons production. He has represented the HHS Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as an expert in emergency response and supply chain management, collaborating with international agencies and private sector partners to improve the supply chain for medical materials required to address chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive threats, aid humanitarian assistance missions, and combat global pandemics.
As part of the Global Health Security Agenda, he led efforts to foster self-sufficiency by providing technical assistance to help many high priority developing countries create and implement their own national medical logistics plans. In addition to his technical and programmatic leadership, Adams has overseen numerous large-scale public health emergency responses, including the SNS responses to global pandemics and the U.S. mpox outbreak, and has led rapid field deployment teams.
Adams holds a Master of Public Health degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a program certificate from Harvard’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative.
