DLH Holdings Corp. Names Sandra Halverson as Chief Scientist
November 05, 2020 at 09:30 pm IST
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DLH Holdings Corp. announced Sandra Halverson, MPH, PhD has been appointed Chief Scientist effective November 1, 2020. In this role, Dr. Halverson will work collaboratively with the DLH Executive Leadership Team to help set company research and scientific priorities. In addition to research coordination and personnel management duties, Sandra will serve as a public representative of the company, helping tell the story of DLH’s increasingly prominent role in the public health and life sciences market space. Dr. Halverson currently serves as Director of DLH’s Survey Operations Center and as Project Director for the DLH-supported NIEHS Sister Study, a landmark research effort dedicated to finding the causes of breast cancer. Dr. Halverson joined DLH in 2012 from her tenure-tracked position as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University; she served as the Associate Director of Graduate Studies for the school’s Institute for Medicine and Public Health doctoral program in epidemiology. Sandra holds a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, as well as a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.
DLH Holdings Corp. is a provider of science research and development, systems engineering and integration, and digital transformation and cyber security solutions to federal agencies. The Company is focused on improved deployment of health and defense initiatives for multiple agencies within the federal government, including the Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense. Its digital transformation and cyber security solutions include tools, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, cloud enablement, cybersecurity ecosystem, big data analytics, and modeling and simulation. The Company's science research and development solutions include data analytics, testing and evaluation, clinical trials research services, and epidemiology studies. Its systems engineering and integration solutions include system modernization, enterprise-edge information technology (IT) management, health IT systems, performance-based logistics and robotics and unmanned systems.