Nate Weed serves as the chief of resiliency and health security at the Washington State Department of Health. In this role, Weed provides statewide leadership for the ongoing development of public health and medical emergency response capabilities and community resilience and he leads the department’s emergency response teams.
Weed holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wyoming and a Master of Public Health from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Additionally, Weed is a certified incident command and crisis leadership trainer and a graduate of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and the Northwest Public Health Leadership Institute at the University of Washington School of Public Health.
Throughout his career, Weed worked in local, state, and federal public health roles leading emergency response teams in many emergencies including the COVID-19 pandemic, the H1N1 pandemic, wildland fires, mass casualty incidents, environmental health events, West Nile Virus and St. Louis encephalitis outbreaks, foodborne and waterborne illness outbreaks, and multiple Gulf Coastal hurricanes including Hurricanes Katrina and Maria.