Rosemarie Kobau, MPH, MAPP

Former Team Lead
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC, NCCDPHP, Division of Adult and Community Health

Rosemarie Kobau is a former health scientist and team lead (2012-2025) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Epilepsy Program. She has a master’s degree from the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a former Association of Schools of Public Health fellow, assigned in 2000, to the CDC Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) Program, where she conducted numerous studies on HRQOL and well-being in the U.S. population. Afterwards, she was hired to work with the CDC Epilepsy Program where she initiated epilepsy surveillance on national and state public health surveillance systems and led population studies of epilepsy prevalence and its corresponding burden. Rosemarie conceptualized and coordinated the development of the CDC Managing Epilepsy Well Network that has contributed to closing epilepsy self-management research and program gaps in the U.S. During her 25-year career at CDC, she published over 80 research studies and government reports, served on multiple federal interagency committees, led internal agency workgroups, and served on multiple agency emergency response teams.