Associate Director for Policy Analysis
FDA/CDER
Tala H. Fakhouri PhD MPH is the Associate Director for Policy Analysis at the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Fakhouri manages a team tasked with developing, coordinating, and implementing medical policy with a focus on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in drug development. She also contributes to the development of medical policy related to real-world evidence (RWE) for medical product development. In 2023, She was selected by the Office of Management and Budget to serve on the Federal Committee for Statistical Methodology for her expertise in statistical methods.
Prior to joining FDA, Dr. Fakhouri served as Chief Statistician for the CDC’s flagship population survey, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which is recognized as the premier source of nationally representative data on the health of the nation. Prior to NHANES, she served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the CDC, and deputy lead for health surveys at ICF-Macro International. Dr. Fakhouri published over 30 government reports, peer-reviewed papers, and book chapters.
Dr. Fakhouri earned a Ph.D. in Oncological Sciences from The Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, an MPH in Epidemiologic and Biostatistical Methods from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, and a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular biology and genetics from Harvard University, and holds a BSc Medical Technology form the Jordan University of Science and Technology
Sunday, December 3, 2023
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM