Dr Laura Povlich

National Institutes of Health

Laura Povlich is a Program Director in the Division of International Training and Research at the Fogarty International Center, part of the National Institutes of Health, where she was previously an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellow. Dr. Povlich has administered a portfolio of grants that covers a range of research, research training, and research education projects related to global health technology, with a significant focus on information and communication technology. She currently is a coordinator for a new NIH Common Fund program - Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa). Prior to working at Fogarty, Dr. Povlich was the 2011-2012 Materials Research Society/Optical Society Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow in the Office of Congressman Sander Levin. Dr. Povlich earned a B.S.E. in Materials Science and Engineering and a Ph.D. in Macromolecular Science and Engineering, both from the University of Michigan. Her research focused on the synthesis of functionalized conjugated polymers for biological sensor applications and for neural probe and prosthetic device electrode coatings.

Dr Noffisat Oki

National Institutes of Health

Dr. Oki serves as director of the Data Science, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics program within the extramural research division at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), of the National Institutes of Health.

Dr Brad Newsome

National Institutes of Health

Brad Newsome, Ph.D., serves as a Program Director at the Fogarty International Center (FIC), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Brad oversees an applied global health research portfolio geared toward advancing data science and innovation, health impacts of extreme weather events, mobile and digital health, point-of-care technologies, dissemination and implementation research, and medical/research capacity building efforts. Brad is a biomedical scientist trained at the interface of materials engineering, toxicology, environmental public health, and science policy, with research geared toward holistically addressing global health concerns associated with environmentally-induced non-communicable diseases.