Carlos D. Williams, MD, MPH, MBA
Commander, US Navy
US Navy Surgeon General’s Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response Liaison to USUHS
Director of Education and Civil-Military Medicine
Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine (CDHAM)
Dr. Williams currently serves as the US Navy Surgeon General’s Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response Liaison to USUHS and as the Director of Education and Civil Military Medicine for CDHAM.
He also serves as Chair of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (OASD(HA)) Medical Stability Operations Working Group’s Education and Training Committee. In this position, he led the effort which resulted in the development of the DOD’s first Global Health Education and Training Consortium. He also serves as the Chair of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED)’s HA/DR Working Group’s Evaluations Committee. In this capacity, he co-authored a BUMED handbook to train Military Health System personnel on monitoring and evaluation entitled, “Guiding Principles for Conducting Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for Medical Stability Operations (MSOs).”
Dr. Williams works in coordination with numerous United Nations Agencies, other US Government Departments and international and national non-governmental organizations (NGO) to improve partner nation’s disaster response capability. Currently, he is conducting sustained engagements in over eight African nations that focus on crisis response and disease surveillance.
Dr. Williams graduated with honors from Albany State University (College) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and a minor in Chemistry. He went on to earn his Doctorate of Medicine from Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. After Medical School, he completed his internship and residencies in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and later earned his Master of Public Health (MPH) in humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HA/DR) and Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Health Leadership and Management from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore Maryland. Dr. Williams also holds an International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance (IDHA) from Fordham University in New York, New York and has completed a faculty development program in health disparities and education.
Dr. Williams deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. While in Iraq, he served as Head of Pediatrics and staff Internal Medicine physician caring for military personnel and Iraqi civilians. He has responded to multiple disasters international and domestic. Prior to being appointed to his current position, Dr. Williams served as Deputy Director of the Military Enteric Diseases Program at the Naval Medical Research Center in Silver Spring, MD and was principle investigator and associate investigator on several first in human vaccine trials.
Dr. Williams holds an appointment as Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the USUHS and is on staff in the Department of Internal Medicine at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. He has been awarded several awards including Teacher of the Year, three Navy and Marine Corp Commendation Medals, and the Presidential Unit Citation for his units work done in Iraq. He currently is a member of the Morehouse School of Medicine MPH Advisory Committee and is a past Executive Committee member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.
