Margaret Hamburg, the foreign secretary of the National Academy of Medicine, has been chosen to serve as president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She will begin her three-year term as an officer and member of the Executive Committee of the AAAS Board of Directors at the conclusion of the 183rd AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston on February 21, 2017.
Prior to joining the National Academy of Medicine in 2015, Hamburg served for six years as the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. From 2001 to 2009, she worked for the Nuclear Threat Initiative, first as vice president for biological programs, then as senior scientist. In 1997, President Bill Clinton named Hamburg assistant secretary for planning and evaluation in the Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to that, Hamburg was New York City's health commissioner.
A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Hamburg conducted research on neuroscience at Rockefeller University, studied neuropharmacology at the National Institute of Mental Health and conducted HIV/AIDS policy and research as assistant director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Hamburg has been a member of AAAS since 1988 and was named an elected fellow in 1995.
AAAS' current president-elect, Susan Hockfield, will begin her term as AAAS president at the close of the 2017 Annual Meeting. Hockfield is the president emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The current president, Barbara Schaal, will become chair of the AAAS Board of Directors. Schaal is a professor of biology and the dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
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