Efficient December 31, 2023, Michelle Catlin, Ph.D. will function Chief Scientist of the U.S. Division of Agriculture’s Meals Security and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS). On this position, Dr. Catlin will function the primary scientific advisor on issues of public well being and meals security that have an effect on the mission of the company, with major accountability for scientific initiatives throughout the Workplace of Public Well being Science (OPHS).

Dr. Catlin has greater than 20 years of expertise within the public well being discipline. From 1999–2004 she labored for the Nationwide Academy of Sciences, after which she joined FSIS as a senior scientist. Dr. Catlin most lately served the company because the Worldwide Coordination Govt, overseeing all of FSIS’ worldwide actions. Dr. Catlin holds a B.S. diploma in life sciences and an M.S. diploma in pharmacology from Queen’s College at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in addition to a Ph.D. in toxicology from the Division of Environmental Well being of the College of Washington at Seattle.

Moreover, Margaret Burns-Rath, J.D., M.P.H., who’s at present serving because the Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Workplace of Worldwide Coordination, will succeed Dr. Catlin because the Worldwide Coordination Govt.