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michelle.mcmurry@aspeninstitute.org
Background:
Dr. McMurry is the incoming director of the new Health, Biomedical Science, and Society Policy Program of the Aspen Institute. She is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco and an Adjunct MacArthur Fellow in Global Health at the Council for Foreign Relations. Her work has focused on the intersection of biomedical research funding policies and healthcare disparities and global health inequities. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Policy at George Washington University. She formerly oversaw health and social policy issues for Senator Joseph Lieberman and was the senior health policy advisor for the Lieberman for President Campaign. In both contexts she constructed policies to stimulate translational research in the public and private sectors and to promote health care quality. Prior to this, she was the Hospital Preparedness Coordinator for the Department of Health and Human Services, where she worked on preparing our Nation’s hospitals for public health emergencies. Dr. McMurry completed a bioterrorism policy fellowship in the office of Senator Joseph Lieberman, funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and participated in a joint pediatric-medical genetics training program at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is a former recipient of an American Association for the Advancement of Science Policy fellowship during which she worked to improve diversity in graduate science education in the Office of the Director of the National Science Foundation. She received her M.D. and Ph.D. in molecular immunology from Duke University with a grant from the NIH Medical Scientist Training Program. Her basic science research focused on the role of the regulation of chromatin structure and gene recombination in immune system response. She received her undergraduate training in biochemistry at Harvard University.
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