David Ausdemore has over 25 years of domestic and international project and program management experience for the U.S. Federal Government where he has designed, implemented, and managed a variety of technical programs that includes health, environmental, safety, emergency preparedness, and public health strengthening. His areas of expertise includes healthcare facility design and operations, laboratory safety and design, healthcare facility design, industrial hygiene, hazardous materials, waste management, emergency preparedness, facility design reviews, and radiation safety. Mr. Ausdemore holds the certifications as a Professional Engineer and a Certified Industrial Hygienist. He is also a retired Captain from the U.S. Public Health Service.

While assigned at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Mr. Ausdemore advanced health, safety, and environmental quality management programs for the CDC’s domestic and international programs. To support the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, he spearheaded an initiative to strengthen the environmental and biosafety programs in over a dozen developing countries located in Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia that are receiving U.S. assistance for HIV prevention initiatives. His focus areas included assisting the countries with improving health system strategies, policies and procedures; conducting detailed assessments of over 200 healthcare and laboratory facilities with recommended corrective actions; and providing training and presentations on various technical topics in venues that ranged from classroom to international conferences. For the CDC’s domestic facilities, Mr. Ausdemore directed comprehensive health, environmental, and safety quality management programs for 600 research laboratories and work centers utilized by 15,000 member workforce located at the Atlanta campuses and 8 research centers to enhance laboratory safety, environmental quality, and organizational sustainability.

Prior to the CDC, Mr. Ausdemore served in various positions as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, where he directed occupational health surveillance, environmental compliance and radiation surveillance for domestic and international military installations. In addition, as an Environmental Restoration Team Chief, he executed $25 million of consulting engineering contracts to evaluate the nature and extent of hazardous chemical contamination and to support hazardous waste cleanups at five Pacific Air Force bases and one NASA installation. Here he led engineers and scientists to conduct investigations, designs, and cleanup under the Air Force Environmental Compliance Program.