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Diana Zuckerman, PhD
Diana Zuckerman, PhD

    Dr. Diana Zuckerman is the president of the National Research Center for Women & Families, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and education organization that works to improve policies andprograms that affect the health and safety of adults and children. She is a frequently quoted and nationally respected expert on health and health policy, especially FDA issues. She worked with members of Congress and their staff to strengthen patient safeguards in FDA laws and has testified about medical products and FDA policies several dozen times before Congress, FDA Advisory Committees, and the FDA Science Board.

    After receiving her PhD from Ohio State University, Dr. Zuckerman was a post-doctoral fellow in epidemiology and public health at Yale Medical School. She started her career as a faculty member at Vassar College. She then joined the faculty at Yale University, leaving to conduct a longitudinal research study at Harvard in 1981.

    From 1983 to 1995, Dr. Zuckerman worked as a Congressional staffer in the US House of Representatives and Senate. She was responsible for a dozen nationally-recognized Congressional investigations and hearings on a wide range of health issues, including the prevention of breast cancer, the safety of infertility treatments, and oversight of FDA's regulation of medical products.

    In 1995, Dr. Zuckerman served as a senior policy advisor in the White House, working for First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Since 1996, she has served in leadership positions at non-profit organizations, and has been president of the National Research Center for Women & Families since 1999. She founded the Center's Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund in 2007.

    In addition, Dr. Zuckerman is a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics. She serves on numerous boards and commissions, including the board of directors of the Congressionally-mandated Reagan-Udall Foundation and of the Alliance for a Stronger FDA. In 2010, she was inducted into the Women in Medicine International Hall of Fame.

    Dr. Zuckerman's work has resulted in news coverage on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News, public television, 60 Minutes, 20/20, National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, USA Today, Detroit Free Press, Washington Times, New York Daily News, Newsweek, Time, U.S. News and World Report, Family Circle, the New Yorker, and many other newspapers, magazines, and radio programs. She is the author of five books, several book chapters, and dozens of articles in academic journals and national newspapers.    

    Schedule28 Mar 2024