Brian C. Moyer is an American economist who is the Director of the U.S.

National Center for Health Statistics The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is a U.S. government agency that provides statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the public health of the American people. It is a unit of the Centers for Disease Control ...

. Moyer serves as senior advisor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and to the Secretary of the

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is " ...

; he also serves as the Statistical Official for the Department.

Education

Moyer received a bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in economics in 2002 from

American University The American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. AU was charte ...

.Research at BEA: Staff Biography
at bea.gov.Meet Brian Moyer, Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis
''Amstat News'', 1 Jan 2014, American Statistical Association web site.Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis: Who Is Brian Moyer?
at allgov.com.

Career

Moyer spent more than 25 years with the U.S. Department of Commerce. He served as Director of the

Bureau of Economic Analysis The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the United States Department of Commerce is a U.S. government agency that provides official economy of the United States, macroeconomic and industry statistics, most notably reports about the gross domestic ...

(BEA), where he led modernization efforts to improve official economic statistics, including the measures of gross domestic product (GDP).Eric Morath
Commerce Department Picks Brian Moyer To Lead Number-Crunching for GDP and Other Key Reports
'' The Wall Street Journal'', 9 Sep 2014.

References

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