Tina Tan ’92
Mentor, Connector, Doer
State Epidemiologist/Assistant Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Health
Since 2009, in her role with the New Jersey Department of Health, Tina Tan has directed investigations, public health responses and planning efforts regarding emerging issues such as bioterrorism-related anthrax, SARS, pandemic H1N1 influenza, post-Hurricane Sandy efforts, vinyl chloride release associated with a train derailment, imported viral hemorrhagic fever cases, e-cigarette/vaping product use-associated lung injuries and COVID-19. Tan received her medical degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. She completed her internal medicine residency at New York University and an applied epidemiology fellowship with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Epidemic Intelligence Service. She is an adjunct associate professor with the Department of Epidemiology at the Rutgers School of Public Health. She is published widely in peer-reviewed scientific literature and is a frequent presenter at and participant in state and national conferences, committees, work groups and boards on a range of public health issues.