Team: Office Management Team

Functional Area: Office Management

Programs: Office-wide Engagement; Workforce Planning & Development

Haylee Gans joined the Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC) in May 2024. She serves as a Human Resources (HR) Specialist. She brings over six years of experience providing human capital services to both public and private sector organizations. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Notre Dame and her M.A. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from George Mason University.

Team: Office Management Team

Functional Area: Office Management

Programs: Administrative & Budgetary Management; Management Analysis; Office-wide Engagement; Workforce Planning & Development

Cauprise Hagler joined the Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC) August 2024 to serve as an Operations Coordinator. Prior to joining OSC, Cauprise worked for the Chief Hand Surgeon at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital as an Administrative Officer. 

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: 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: Re-Engineering the Biomedical Workforce (RRE)

Functional Area: Program Management

Programs: Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS)

Salsawi “Sal” Kebede joined the Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC) in June 2024. He serves as a Scientific Program Analyst supporting the Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) program. He brings over seven years of experience in research, project management, and public health. Before joining OSC, he worked for a short period at CSR providing administrative and program support for peer review meetings. Prior to joining NIH, he conducted research and managed projects as a Faculty Research Assistant at the University of Maryland with a focus on antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and development of surfactant-based vaccines using bacterial surface molecules. He also served as a community partner to several community health initiatives in Maryland creating tailored and research-based health communication materials. He earned his B.S. in Microbiology and MPH in Behavioral and Community Health from the University of Maryland College Park.

Team: Immediate Office of the Director (IMOD)

Functional Area: Other Transactions; Review Management; Science Policy

Programs: All Common Fund Programs; All Common Fund Programs for Other Transaction Activities

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, moved to be the Program Specialist for the Catalytic Data Resources Team in August 2022 and as of July 2024 serves as a Program Analyst in the Immediate Office of the Director of OSC working on Other Transactions, Review Management and Science Policy. 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 as well as Exercise Science from Towson University.

Team: Catalytic Data Resources (CDR)

Functional Area: Team Management

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

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.