Margaret Hamburg

Vice President for Biological Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative

Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. is the Vice President for Biological Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington, D.C. NTI is a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Dr. Hamburg is in charge of the biological program area.

Before taking on her current position, Dr. Hamburg was the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, serving as principal policy advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Prior to this, she served for almost six years as the Commissioner of Health for the City of New York. She completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the New York Hospital/Cornell University Medical Center and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She is a graduate of Harvard/Radcliffe College and Harvard Medical School. She currently serves on the Harvard College Board of Overseers, as well as on the Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, The Trust for America’s Health and Doctor’s of the World. She has been elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine, the New York Academy of Medicine, the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science and of the American College of Physicians.