Deputy Director
Center for the Strategic National Stockpile
Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Lisa Dillard is the Deputy Director of the Center for the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS). In this role, she provides strategic leadership to advance the SNS emergency preparedness and response mission, ensuring operational readiness to support national biodefense priorities.
As a Senior Executive Service member, Dillard brings extensive emergency preparedness and response expertise. She previously served as chief of the SNS Information and Planning Branch—now the SNS Office of National Readiness and Response—where she led complex preparedness initiatives, operational planning, and large-scale response efforts. She has directed numerous SNS responses, including natural disasters, multiple pandemics, mpox, and H5N1, ensuring the effective distribution of critical medical countermeasures, supplies and equipment during public health crises. Her leadership was instrumental in integrating the private sector into public health emergency response operations, including the long-standing collaboration between the SNS and the Health Industry Distributors Association to strengthen medical supply chain resilience
Dillard began her tenure at the SNS in 2002, following a distinguished U.S. Army military intelligence officer career. Her assignments across the United States, South Korea, and Southwest Asia have shaped her strategic approach to national security and crisis management. She holds an accounting degree from North Carolina A&T State University.
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