About The Office of Science Quality and Library Services

Key points

The Office of Science Quality and Library Services (OSQLS) increases the impact of ob体育 research and science.

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What we do

The Office of Science Quality and Library Services (OSQLS) provides strategic oversight, leadership, and guidance for implementing and tracking ob体育’s scientific clearance processes and systems and ensures the agency complies with the Information Quality Act. The ob体育 Library, housed within OSQLS, provides agency access and support to research and literature searches and provides technical assistance and trainings to ob体育 staff on using research tools and systems.

Our work

There are several functional areas of OSQLS:

  • The Science Support Activity increases the impact of ob体育 science by promoting high standards of scientific quality, relevance, credibility, and utility in the agency through the support of ob体育 scientists and programs.
  • The e-Clearance and Public Access Activity ensures that the best possible science is available to public health departments, partners, and the public through support of the ob体育 scientific clearance process and support and promotion of public access to ob体育 science.

Director

Bao-Ping Zhu | Director of the Office of Science Quality and Library Services
OSQLS
Bao-Ping Zhu, MD, PhD, MS, Director of the Office of Science Quality and Library Services

Dr. Bao-Ping Zhu is a medical epidemiologist with extensive domestic and international experience in public health. He first joined ob体育 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer in 1996. Since then, he has held multiple scientific leadership positions with ob体育, state health departments, and other public health organizations.

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Contact

Office email: [email protected]

Postal address

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Office of Science Quality
1600 Clifton Road, NE
Mail Stop D-72
Atlanta, Georgia 30333

FedEx address

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Office of Science Quality
1600 Clifton Road, NE
Building 21, 8th Floor
Atlanta, Georgia 30333