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Mr. Christopher Brown serves as the Chief of Staff for the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health and he oversees the Center’s operations and its staff, while strategically coordinating the science, operations and education related support to the Center’s federal interagency partners. Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Brown was the Director of Emergency Preparedness at the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), where he managed Navy Medicine’s Emergency Management (EM) and other enterprise-wide preparedness and response programs. While at BUMED, he led their Emergency Operations Center (EOC) support to their Crisis Action Team during the response to the 2014 Ebola and the 2016 Zika outbreaks, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, he managed the Navy’s pandemic response stockpile. Additionally, while at BUMED, he completed a detail to the Defense Health Agency as their interim EM program manager, and he served as an adjunct faculty member at the Defense Medical Readiness and Training Institute, where he was an instructor for the Joint Service Public Health Emergency Management courses. Mr. Brown has also supported the DoD’s EM program in a variety of defense contractor assignments since 2004 and has previously served as the Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Program Manager for Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC); as the Navy Service Lead for the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological Defense (JPEO CBD) Guardian Installation Protection Program; as the manager for contractor support to the U.S. Navy’s regional CBRN coordinator and EOC programs, and for Navy Medicine’s regional Medical Emergency Manager and EOC programs, as well as serving as an on-site EM and Force Protection technical advisor for the Navy’s Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, Africa. Mr. Brown is a retired U.S. Navy Captain and his uniformed service spanned 28 years of active and reserve duty as a Surface Warfare Officer, including two tours in command of commissioned reserve units, six deployments to the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters, and contingency operations in the Middle East and Africa. CAPT Brown’s relevant uniform experience includes both his command tours, during which his units provided contingency support to civil authorities during the Southern California wildfires in 2003 and 2007, as well as a tour with the Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon, where he served as a Navy Operations Center Watch Officer and a Navy Crisis Action Team Chief during the response to Hurricane Katrina