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Dina Paltoo from the National Institutes of Health discussed Open and Government at ECS's OpenCon 2017.
Dina received her PhD from Howard University in physiology and biophysics. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, she returned to Howard University in a research position and was on faculty at Morgan State University.
Then, she focused her research on molecular epidemiology as a Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute, earning an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also served as a program director at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, where she initiated and managed research programs in genomics and pharmacogenomics.
Until 2016, Dina was the director of the Genetics, Health, and Society Program in the Office of Science Policy at the National Institutes of Health, where she managed many activities including NIH’s genomic data sharing policy, implementation, and oversight.
In her current position she is responsible for biomedical research policy development pertaining to data sharing in the areas of genomics and health, and scientific data management.
Dina Paltoo from the National Institutes of Health discussed Open and Government at ECS's OpenCon 2017.
Dina received her PhD from Howard University in physiology and biophysics. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, she returned to Howard University in a research position and was on faculty at Morgan State University.
Then, she focused her research on molecular epidemiology as a Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute, earning an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also served as a program director at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, where she initiated and managed research programs in genomics and pharmacogenomics.
Until 2016, Dina was the director of the Genetics, Health, and Society Program in the Office of Science Policy at the National Institutes of Health, where she managed many activities including NIH’s genomic data sharing policy, implementation, and oversight.
In her current position she is responsible for biomedical research policy development pertaining to data sharing in the areas of genomics and health, and scientific data management.
