Adam Anderson is the Director of Epidemiology and Data Science at the Adams County Health Department in Colorado, where he oversees a multidisciplinary portfolio spanning population health epidemiology, communicable disease surveillance, data systems, and emergency preparedness and response. As part of the department’s senior leadership team, Adam leads teams of epidemiologists, data professionals, and preparedness planners—bringing strategic direction and innovation to programs that guide public health action. He has held similar leadership roles in multiple local health departments, including playing a central role in standing up Colorado’s newest health department and building its epidemiology, data, and preparedness functions from the ground up.
Adam is also an adjunct instructor at the Colorado School of Public Health, where he teaches GIS and spatial analysis for health research. With a background in landscape architecture, urban planning, and public health, he brings an interdisciplinary lens to understanding how communities, cultures, the built environment, and environmental conditions shape population health.
His expertise includes geospatial technology, statistical and spatial modeling, enterprise data systems architecture, governance, and web-based application development. He specializes in integrating health, demographic, and community data to better reflect the complexity of health outcomes and disease patterns, and translating those insights into practical tools for decision-making. Adam leads a health department–wide data modernization effort focused on transforming how data are collected, stored, accessed, governed, and used to support more efficient workflows and data-driven operations. His work includes designing GIS- and automation-enabled dashboards and interactive web applications—with a strong emphasis on clear visual communication—that make complex health data accessible and actionable for policymakers, practitioners, and communities. Through this systems-building work, Adam is committed to improving community resources, resilience, and opportunities for health.