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2025 Scientific Meeting
Professional Development
Speaker Profiles

Monday, March 17, 2025

Time: 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM

Speaker Cheryl AndersonCheryl Anderson, PhD

Professor and founding Dean
Herbert Wertheim School of Public health and Human Longevity Science
UC San Diego

Cheryl Anderson is a professor and founding Dean of the Herbert Wertheim School of Public health and Human Longevity Science at UC San Diego. She holds the Hood Family Endowed Dean‘s Chair in public health and is also appointed in the department of medicine division of nephrology and hypertension.

Dean Anderson’s research is focused on nutrition and lifestyle as a means to equitably prevent chronic diseases. She has served on the U.S. dietary guidelines advisory committee that influences population level policies that make it easier to eat healthy diets.

In recognition of her research and advocacy in public health, Dean Anderson was elected to the National Academy of medicine in 2016.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Time: 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM

Speaker Helena GaborHelena Gabor, DrPH

Scientific Review Officer, NIH

Dr. Helena Gabor (née Dagadu) is the Scientific Reviewer Officer for the Health Promotion in Communities Study Section at NIH’s Center for Scientific Review. She oversees the review of applications that develop and test the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions with a community-oriented approach aimed at promoting health or moderating health risks in the general population. Dr. Gabor received her Ph.D. in medical sociology from Vanderbilt University. She also holds an M.P.H. from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. Prior to CSR, Dr. Gabor was the Inaugural Endowed Assistant Professor of Sociology with a joint appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Loyola University Chicago.

Title: National Institutes of Health (NIH): Simplifying the Review of Research Project Grant Applications

Objectives:

  1. Tracking the journey of a grant application from submission to score.
  2. Understanding NIH’s new approach to the peer review of grant applications submitted to NIH, what led to this change, and how this will affect future evaluation of applications.
  3. Applying tips and tricks to future applications, whether applicants are experienced PIs or first-time applicants.


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