CDR Newman has been an active voting member of the Scientist PAC since September of 2004. During FY 2008, CDR Newman served as Chair of the Scientist PAC and was Vice Chair in FY 2007.  For four consecutive years she served as the Chair and co-Chair of the COA Scientists Category Day Subcommittee, and has served on the SciPAC Science subcommittee, as a SciPAC mentor and CV reviewer for Jr officers.  CDR Newman Currently serves on the Command Staff of PHS 2 RDF team.

In December of 2006, CDR Newman began working in within the Corps at the National Park Service (NPS) and directs a Public Risk Management Program to support efforts to prevent and control injuries in parks throughout the United States.  In this position, CDR Newman  tracks injuries and deaths in our National Park System and to identify needed prevention programs to reduce injury and death in National Parks throughout the United States.

Prior to her assignment with the NPS, CDR Newman worked in the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness (OPHEP), the Office of the Secretary as the Special Project’s Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures where she designed and implemented special studies to inform initiatives of and decisions by the DAS on issues related to public health emergency medical countermeasures.

Before serving at OPHEP, CDR Newman worked for nearly three years as an epidemiologist with the Division of Immigration Health Services (DIHS) where she managed the agency’s infection control program, managed an infectious disease surveillance system and assisted in management efforts on a continuity of care program for Tuberculosis.

CDR Newman earned her doctorate degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences with emphasis in epidemiology and social and behavioral sciences. In conjunction with her dissertation work on sexually transmitted infections in female prisoners, in September of 2001, Dr. Newman joined the United States Public Health Service as a Jr. COSTEP where she worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Sara_newman@nps.gov phone: 202-513-7225
Sara B. Newman, MCP, DrPh
CDR, USPHS
Public Risk Mgmt Program Director
Work: 202-513-7225
Cell: 202-222-8608