Team: Transformational Science and Discovery (TSD)

Functional Area: Communication and Outreach; Event Coordination; Program Evaluation and Analysis; Team Management

Programs: NIH Director's Early Independence Award (EIA); NIH Director's New Innovator Award (NIA); NIH Director's Pioneer Award (PA); NIH Director's Transformative Research Award (TRA)

Ms. Asanté Forde joined the Common Fund in the Office of Strategic Coordination as an Executive Assistant to HRHR. Before joining our office, Ms. Forde worked as an Executive Assistant at Maryland Oncology Hematology in Southern Maryland. While there, she partnered with doctors, pharmacists, nurses and other staff and their teams to understand business strategies, products, processes, and systems that help support the day-to-day basis of the clinics located in the Southern Maryland division. Ms. Forde earned her B.S. in Psychology from Bowie State University.

Team: Office Management Team

Functional Area: Office Management

Programs: Workforce Planning & Development

Renae Gross joined the Office of Strategic Coordination as a Workforce Management Specialist in September 2023. She received her B.A. in Health and Human Development from The Pennsylvania State University. Renae has worked with various NIH IC’s supporting different human capital initiatives such as workforce/job analysis projects, PeopleSoft Human Resources and Gelco Travel Manager/GovTrip systems implementations and training.

Team: Strategic Planning, Evaluation, and Communications (SPEC)

Functional Area: Communication and Outreach; Program Evaluation and Analysis; Program Strategic Planning; Science Policy; Website Content

Programs: Glycoscience; Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG); Metabolomics; NIH Director's Early Independence Award (EIA); NIH Director's New Innovator Award (NIA); NIH Director's Pioneer Award (PA); NIH Director's Transformative Research Award (TRA); Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by the All of Us Research Program; Somatic Mosaicism Across Human Tissues (SMaHT)

Dr. Brionna Hair joined the Office of Strategic Coordination in 2020. Prior to joining the Common Fund, she served as a Health Statistician for the Health Resources and Services Administration, where she managed and conducted research on federally qualified health centers. Previously, she was a Cancer Research Training Award Fellow at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Hair received a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, focusing on gene methylation in breast tissue. She also holds an MPH in epidemiology from Emory University and a BA in environmental studies from Brown University.

Team: Re-Engineering the Biomedical Workforce (RRE)

Functional Area: Program Management

Programs: Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST)

Dr. Michelle Hamlet joins us from the NIH All of Us Research Program, where she served as a Branch Director for the Healthcare Provider Organization (HPO) Branch within the Division of Cohort Development. In this capacity, she led a team responsible for enrollment and retention of All of Us cohort participants. Her career started at NIH as the first Training Program Coordinator at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). She oversaw the NHGRI Intramural Training Office, developed the NHGRI Health Disparities Research Fellowship and developed the first NIH Community College Day and Community College Summer Enrichment Program. Dr. Hamlet then served as Program Director at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) for basic research and postdoctoral training portfolios in cell cycle regulation in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology and undergraduate and graduate student development programs in the Division of Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity. Next in her career, she worked as a Program Director at the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) in the Symptom Science and Genetics Branch overseeing clinical and pre-clinical portfolios focused on symptom biology, symptom assessment, and symptom clusters. Dr. Hamlet earned a BSLA in French from Georgetown University, a Master’s degree in zoology at Howard University, and a Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology from Harvard University. She conducted postdoctoral research at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Team: Strategic Planning, Evaluation, and Communications (SPEC)

Functional Area: Communication and Outreach; Program Evaluation and Analysis; Program Strategic Planning; Science Policy; Website Content

Programs: Gabriella Miller Kids First (Kids First); Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa)

Dr. Andréa Harris joined the Office of Strategic Coordination in July of 2022. Prior to joining The Common Fund, Dr. Harris was an Analyst in the Center for Tobacco Products. She has broad experience in evaluation, communication, social policy, and public health across sectors. Dr. Harris earned a Ph.D. in health & social policy as well as an M.A. in social policy from Brandeis University, where she was a T32 NRSA trainee supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She also received a M.S.P.H. in health policy and management from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and completed her undergraduate studies in public health and English at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Harris has profound interest in health equity and social determinants of health, and has received academic and professional certifications in Health Disparities & Health Inequalities from Johns Hopkins, and Advanced Project Management from Stanford University.

Team: Transformational Science and Discovery (TSD)

Functional Area: Program Management

Programs: 4D Nucleome (4DN); Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet)

Dr. Tanya Hoodbhoy joined the Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC) from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) where she managed tissue engineering and regenerative medicine grants. Before that, she spent a decade at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at the NIH managing several grant portfolios in developmental biology for the Division of Genetics and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. She also managed postdoctoral research fellowships for the Division of Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity at NIGMS. She spent an initial six years at OSC prior to NIGMS overseeing several Common Fund programs. Dr. Hoodbhoy received her Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at Riverside and conducted postdoctoral research at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the NIH.

Team: Immediate Office of the Director (IMOD)

Functional Area: All OSC Activities

Programs: All Common Fund Programs

Scott Jackson received his bachelor’s degree in industrial and systems engineering from Georgia Tech, focusing on information systems and industrial/organizational psychology. He received a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Georgia. Mr. Jackson came to the NIH in 2005 as a Presidential Management Fellow and worked in various offices within NIH and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of that fellowship. He began working in the precursor to the Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC) in 2006. Following his fellowship, he was hired into the OSC as the Process Manager, and later served as the Team Leader of the Common Fund Operations Team and Acting Team Leader of the Policy, Planning, Evaluation, and Communication (PPEC) Team. From 2020-2022, he was a Fellow in the White House Leadership Development Program where he managed the federal-wide Strategic Planning Working Group to help all federal agencies create FY 2022-2026 strategic plans. He also provided support to Equity Executive Orders (EOs 13985, 14035) and led a team to launch the first federal-wide employee pulse survey. Mr. Jackson now serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the NIH Common Fund, overseeing the Operations Team; the Strategic Planning, Evaluation, and Communication Team; and the Office Management Team.

Team: Re-Engineering the Biomedical Workforce (RRE)

Functional Area: Program Evaluation and Analysis; Program Management

Programs: Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS); Diversity Program Consortium (DPC): Enhancing the Diversity of the NIH-Funded Workforce; Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST); Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE); Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity; Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN)

Willie Jackson joined the Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC) in March 2023. He serves as a Program Analyst. Prior to joining OSC, he worked for the NCI as a Research Study Coordinator and NIH Clinical Center/NIAID as a Clinical Research Case Manager. He earned his B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University and M.S. in Management and Leadership. He is a board-certified Registered Nurse.

Team: Catalytic Data Resources (CDR)

Functional Area: Program Management

Programs: Common Fund Data Ecosystem(CFDE)

Dr. Kano joined the Office of Strategic Coordination in 2021, where she helps integrate data from multiple Common Fund programs with the Common Fund Data Ecosystem. Previously, Dr. Kano worked as a program manager with the Department of Veterans Affairs where she provided strategic program management support to the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Innovation Ecosystem. In that role, she managed a large and complex support team and worked closely with program leadership to shape and execute strategic priorities. Christy received her Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine from the George Washington University.

Team: Catalytic Data Resources (CDR)

Functional Area: Communication and Outreach; Event Coordination; Program Evaluation and Analysis; Team Management; Tracking Program

Programs: Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI); Common Fund Data Ecosystem(CFDE); Gabriella Miller Kids First (Kids First); Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP); Metabolomics

Karen Kellton joined the Common Fund in the Office of Strategic Coordination as a contractor Executive Assistant to the Director in March 2019 before transitioning to a federal Program Specialist position within the Office Management Team in September 2021 and moved to be the Program Specialist for the Catalytic Data Resources Team in August 2022. Before joining our office, Karen worked at the NIH Center for Scientific Review since 2016 as an administrative assistant, doing program management support, administrative operations, meeting logistics, and application tracking/processing. Prior to that, she served in several roles that focused on physical activity and personal training. Karen earned dual bachelor degrees in Athletic Training and Exercise Science from Towson University.

Team: Catalytic Data Resources (CDR)

Functional Area: Team Management

Programs: Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI); Gabriella Miller Kids First (Kids First); Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP); Metabolomics; Common Fund Data Ecosystem(CFDE)

Dr. Kinsinger joined the Office of Strategic Coordination in 2020, where he helps integrate data from multiple Common Fund programs with the Common Fund Data Ecosystem. Previously, Dr. Kinsinger worked as a Program Director of the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) in the National Cancer Institute, where he led operations for data management and biospecimen processing for the proteogenomic characterization program. In this role, he oversaw development of the CPTAC Data Coordinating Center and the Proteomic Data Commons, a node of the Cancer Research Data Commons. He also managed the CPTAC biospecimen collection pipeline, consisting of over 30 tissue source sites and served as a scientific mentor for the American Association of Cancer Research’s Scientist Survivor Program for patient advocates. Chris received his Ph.D. in computational chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 2004, studying oxidation mechanisms of bioinorganic complexes. He then completed a postdoc at the National Institute of Standards and Technology where he investigated potential energy surfaces of gas-phase dissociation of peptides.