title: An Interview with Dan Baden, MD.
abstract: Dr. Dan Baden is a family physician with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He has held numerous leadership positions and currently serves as the Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support's senior liaison to CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Dr. Baden is an avid gamer and published game designer. He has an undergraduate degree in computer science, coordinates CDC's Games and Innovation for Public Health Community of Practice, and serves as a game design consultant for CDC. He has presented on Games and Innovation for Public Health at numerous events and serves as the CDC representative on the editorial board of the peer-reviewed Games for Health Journal. He is also a member of the White House Office for Science and Technology Policy's Games for Grand Challenges Workgroup to explore the use of games as a tool for addressing national problems.