Anne Mardis O'Keefe, MD, MPH
Vice Chair, Public Health
Professor
Dr. O’Keefe was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and grew up in Omaha. She earned her MD degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Medicine and completed a Masters of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia. She completed a Transitional Internship at Emory University School of Medicine and a Preventive Medicine Residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado. Dr. O’Keefe is board certified in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine (https://www.theabpm.org/become-certified/specialties/public-health-general-preventive-medicine/).
Prior to starting on the faculty in the School of Medicine, Dr. O'Keefe was the Senior Epidemiologist for the Douglas County Health Department (DCHD) in Omaha from 2006 to 2022. Her role at the health department included assisting with the responses to outbreaks, small, large, and pandemic; communicating and coordinating with physicians, other healthcare providers, and the public; mentoring epidemiology and public health students as well as fellow staff professionals; and other activities that helped the department fulfill it's mission. Prior to that role, she served as the bioterrorism preparedness epidemiologist for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. Before that she was an epidemiologist studying young worker safety at the National Instutue of Occupational Safety and Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Her work has focused on public health informatics, disease surveillance, public health data management and analysis, bioterrorism response, occupational safety, nutritional epidemiology, and drug safety research.
Research Focus
Public Health Practice
Health Equity
Public Health Informatics
Global Health
Disease Prevention
Disease Surveillance
Outbreak Response
Public Health Communications
Department
Clinical Research and Public Health
Position
Professor
Publications
- Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Mardis A. L., Nonfatal injuries to young workers in the retail trades and services industries in 1998
45:3, p. 316 - 323 2003 - Zuckerindustrie
Mardis A. L., Current knowledge of the health effects of sugar intake
127:3, p. 198 - 200 2002 - Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Scholz W. U., First Experiences with a Simple Patient INTERNET Program for Drug Risk Checking
4, p. 1001 1997 - American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Hawkes A. P., Cervical cancer screening: American college of preventive medicine practice policy statement
12:5, p. 342 - 344 1996
Awards
- Department of Health and Human Services Recognition Award
For contributions to the NIOSH and CDC response to the World Trade Center and the CDC Anthrax Response Team.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services