Mark Rosenberg, a physician and former Assistant Surgeon General, was President and CEO of the Task Force for Global Health from 2000–2016. He is on the faculty at Emory University's School of Medicine and Public Health and served for twenty years at the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. He is the coauthor of Real Collaboration: What Global Health Needs to Succeed, Violence in America: A Public Health Approach, and Patients: The Experience of Illness.