Dr. Lloyd Kolbe

Lloyd Kolbe conducts public health policy research, especially to reduce child and adolescent population health problems in the U.S. and other nations.  He has held senior positions across private-sector, government, and academic institutions; worked under the Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush Administrations; published more than 150 scientific articles and book chapters about health problems among youth, school health programs, and public health policies; and is included in the ISI Web of Science’s ISIHighlyCited.com Website for the exceptional number of times his publications have been cited. 

He has been appointed: Chief of Evaluation for the U.S. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (where he helped manage the first set of National Health Objectives, and established the first National Children and Youth Fitness Survey); founding Associate Director of the Center for Health Promotion Research in the Office of the President of the University of Texas Health Science Center; Steering Committee Member for the Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health; Federal Advisor to the National Advisory Committee on Children and Terrorism; Visiting Professor at Beijing Medical University; Member of the U.S. Public Health Service Senior Biomedical Research Service; U.S. Lead for Health Promotion within the U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on Economic and Technological Cooperation; Member of the White House Delegation on HIV Seroprevalence in Uganda; Vice President for Science & Technology of the International Union for Health Promotion & Education; Chairman of the World Health Organization Expert Committee on School Health Promotion; External Examiner for the Chinese University of Hong Kong Medical School; Vice-Chair of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Adolescent Health and Development; Consultant to the People’s Republic of China to Improve School Physical Education; Founding Associate Dean for Global and Community Health at Indiana University; Member of the Council to Coordinate Development of  Schools of Public Health at Indiana University; Member of the Delegation Invited by Liberian President Sirleaf to Improve Public Health and Medicine in Liberia; Consultant to Establish Measures of Exposure to Critical Social Environment Factors for the National Human Genome Research Institute; and, as a Special Government Employee, Chair of the FACA Board of Scientific Counselors for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, and for CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. 

He served for 18 years as founding Director of CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health, during which he and his colleagues were responsible for preventing HIV and obesity among US youth, established several surveillance systems including the national and state Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Systems, generated 100 staff and a budget of $80 million annually for CDC, and helped improve broader adolescent and school health programs in the U.S. and 26 other nations.  For his work to improve child and adolescent health, in 2007 CDC established the Annual Lloyd J. Kolbe Award.