Lake - Leadership

Derrick B. Lake, BA BS

Deputy Director

Division of Laboratory Systems (DLS)

Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services

Office of Public Health Scientific Services

Derrick Lake is the Deputy Director in the Division of Laboratory Services (DLS). He provides executive-level management, and programmatic and operational leadership for DLS program activities. Additionally, he assists the director with policies and management for activities relating to public health programs.

Prior to joining DLS, Mr. Lake worked in the Division of Bacterial diseases as a Program Management Official. He joined CDC in 1991, developing and standardizing immunological assays as well as supervising, managing, and evaluating vaccine immunogenicity trials in CDC laboratories. With over 20 years of progressive responsibility, Mr. Lake has provided program, administrative and financial management functions including federally funded, extramural, non-governmental organization domestic and international public health programs and activities for the CDC.

Mr. Lake brings his exceptional knowledge in government accounting procedures and practices, scientific laboratory operations, and strategic development planning for both programmatic and special project initiatives to his role. He collaborated with the World Health Organization (WHO), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), state health departments, universities and ministries of health with matters relating to fiscal, personnel, procurement and resource utilization to support national and global activities. Mr. Lake is also the author of ten scientific publications in peer reviewed scientific journals.

Mr. Lake earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Emory University.