Eric Tang
40 Under 40 Class of 2023
San Francisco, California
Public Health Medical Officer/Medical & Scientific Affairs Section Chief
California Department of Public Health
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I have learned that we can achieve better health outcomes for all when we center health equity and listen to the community from the very beginning.
Three words to describe me:
motivated, resourceful, reliable
The best part of my job:
My co-workers
Something that would surprise others about me:
Because of remote work, people don't realize how tall I am until we meet in person (I am over 6'3").
Eric Tang, MD, MPH, graduated from Pomona College and later from medical school at Columbia University. He completed a combined internal medicine and preventive medicine residency through Kaiser San Francisco and the University of California, San Francisco, and obtained his MPH in epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Tang joined the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) STD Control Branch in 2018 as a Public Health Medical Officer, where he currently serves as Chief of the Medical & Scientific Affairs Section and leads multiple CDC-funded grants. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, he was a foundational leader and early advisor for California’s COVID-19 contact tracing program. During the 2022 mpox outbreak, he led the mpox Contact Tracing and Outbreak Team for CDPH, and is now the mpox lead. He is on the clinical faculty for the California Prevention Training Center and provides STD care at San Francisco City Clinic.
