Alan Simon MD

Dr. Alan Simon is the Director of the NCHS Division of Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (DHANES) at the CDC. Before coming to this role in 2022, Dr. Simon was a medical officer and project scientist for the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network. The network is part of the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program in the National Institutes of Health's Office of the Director. There, he focused on large, multicenter clinical trials engaging children in rural and underserved states.

Previously, he worked in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health. His work on women's and girls' health encompassed a variety of areas, including sports team participation, eating disorders, and opioid misuse. Dr. Simon also has a decade of experience as a medical officer in the NCHS Office of Analysis and Epidemiology and the NCHS Division of Health Care Statistics.

Simon received a BA in Economics from Cornell University and an MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC. After residency, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Johns Hopkins University. He has authored more than 70 publications in the areas of adult and child health, health services, and epidemiology.