Prior to this position at the US Public Health Service, Dr. Noji was the Chief of the Epidemic Surveillance and Bio-Emergency Response Branch within the office of Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA. 

Before working at CDC, he was Chief of the Emergency Health Intelligence Unit in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Department of Emergency and Humanitarian Action in Geneva, Switzerland responsible for assessing the needs of and monitoring the health of emergency and disaster-affected populations around the world.  Dr. Noji also served as the coordinator of WHO’s Health Information Network for Advanced Planning (HINAP), a global database and surveillance system focusing on the health and nutritional status of refugees and forcibly displaced populations.

Dr. Noji completed his university studies in biology at Stanford University, and received his medical degree at the University of Rochester in the state of New York.  He subsequently completed his residency training in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the University of Chicago and his public health degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.  Prior to coming to the CDC, Dr. Noji was a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an attending emergency physician at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.  Dr. Noji is currently President of the Society of Alumni of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health as well as an adjunct full professor of International Health at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans.

His major area of academic interest concerns the medical and health response to natural, biological and technological disasters including complex humanitarian emergencies and terrorism. Dr. Noji is the author or co-author of over 140 scientific articles and publications on toxicological emergencies, disaster medicine and disaster epidemiology including the recently published Public Health Consequences of Disasters (Oxford Press)