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>his daughter, Dr. Margaret Hamburg,
[chair]woman of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D.
Former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Expertise Biosecurity
Bio
Dr. Margaret Hamburg is an internationally recognized leader in public health and medicine,
who currently serves as chair of the NTI | bio Advisory Group.
She previously served as foreign secretary of the National Academy of Medicine and is a former
Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), having served for almost six years.
Before joining FDA, Hamburg was founding vice president and senior scientist at theNuclear Threat Initiative.
Previous government positions include Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Commissioner for New York City,
and Assistant Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health.
Hamburg recently stepped down from her position as Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of Medicine,
the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
In her former role, she served as senior advisor on international matters and was the liaison with other Academies of Medicine
around the world.
She is an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Academy of Medicine.
Hamburg currently sits on the boards of the Commonwealth Fund, the Simons Foundation, the Urban Institute,
the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the
American Museum of Natural History.
She is [chair] of the Joint Coordinating Group for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovation,
and a member of the Harvard University Global Advisory Council,
the Global Health Scientific Advisory Committee for the Gates Foundation,
the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows, and the World Dementia Council.
Hamburg earned her B.A. from Harvard College, her M.D. from Harvard Medical School
and completed her medical residency at Weill Cornell Medical Center.
She is the recipient of multiple honorary degrees and numerous awards.
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TheNuclear Threat Initiativeprotects lives, the environment and our quality of life now and for future generations.
Every day,
we work to prevent catastrophic attacks with weapons of mass destruction and disruption
—nuclear, biological, radiological, chemical and cyber.
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Following completion of her formal medical training, Dr. Hamburg went to Washington to explore the world of health policy.
She soon took on a role as Assistant Director of the National Institute of Allergy And Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
In 1997, President Clinton named Dr. Hamburg Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
She later became founding Vice President for Biological Programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative,
a foundation dedicated to reducing the threat to public safety from nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.
In March 2009, President Obama nominated Dr. Hamburg for the post of FDA Commissioner.
In that role, Dr. Hamburg emphasized the critical need for innovation in meeting medical care and public health needs.
As Commissioner, she provided leadership on many groundbreaking activities, including: new authority to regulate tobacco products;
implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act designed to transform food safety to a preventive system rather than simply responding when outbreaks occur;
and modernization of the system for the evaluation and approval of medical products.
Dr. Hamburg also worked hard to reposition FDA as an agency prepared for the challenges of globalization and was very active in efforts to establish
new mechanisms for global governance of regulatory systems, including enhanced communication, collaboration and regulatory harmonization.
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Margaret Ann "Peggy" Hamburg (born July 12, 1955, Chicago, Illinois)
an American physician and public health administrator, who is serving as the chair of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[3]
She served as the 21st Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from May 2009 to April 2015.[4]
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