Jayanta "Jay" Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., took the helm as 18^th director of the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s medical research agency, on April 1, 2025. President Trump nominated Dr. Bhattacharya for the position on Nov. 26, 2024, and the U.S. Senate confirmed him on March 25, 2025.

Dr. Bhattacharya, a renowned doctor, researcher, health economist, previously held a tenured professorship in the medical school at Stanford University in California. His research focused on population aging and chronic disease, particularly on the health and well-being of vulnerable populations. He has published over 170 research papers in peer-reviewed journals in medicine, epidemiology, health policy, economics, statistics, science policy, and public health, as well as a leading textbook on health economics.

During the pandemic, Dr. Bhattacharya coauthored the Great Barrington Declaration, which called for opening schools and lifting lockdowns while better protecting older populations who were most vulnerable to the disease.

Dr. Bhattacharya held numerous additional appointments at Stanford University, including courtesy appointments at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute and Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and Economics department. Previously, he conducted research at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the SPHERE Institute, a policy research firm. Before joining Stanford, he was an economist at the RAND Corporation and worked as a visiting economics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Bhattacharya is a longtime NIH grantee and has served as a standing member of multiple NIH review committees. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Stanford University. He then completed medical school and earned a Ph.D. in economics also from Stanford University.

Douglas Bergevin is the Director for the Office of Acquisition & Grants Management (OAGM) within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Mr. Bergevin is responsible for planning, organizing, coordinating, and managing an agency-wide acquisition program with annual obligations of $25 billion to support the CMS mission.

Mr. Bergevin has more than 23 years of contracting experience and over 13 years of management experience. Before joining CMS, Mr. Bergevin served as the Deputy Director, Office of Acquisition Management, National Nuclear Security Administration responsible for approximately $18 billion in annual appropriations obligated to contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and interagency agreements. Mr. Bergevin has also served as a subcontract administrator for Los Alamos National Laboratory and as a Contracting Officer for the Department of the Navy.

Mr. Bergevin holds a Master of Business Administration degree from National University and an undergraduate degree in Management from Southern Utah University. He is a graduate of the Navy Acquisition Internship Program, received the designation of Certified Federal Contract Manager (CFCM) from the National Contract Management Association, and is a graduate of the Management Concepts Grants Management Certificate Program. He also completed the Partnership for Public Service’s Excellence in Government Fellows Program and Annenberg Leadership Institute.

Dr. Jesus J. Caban is the Chief Data and Analytics Officer at the Defense Health Agency, Falls Church, Virginia. He serves as the principal advisor to the DHA Deputy Director on all matters related to data, analytics, and artificial intelligence. In this role, Caban is responsible for leading the implementation of a comprehensive data strategy for the DHA, which includes establishing safeguards, controls, and guidelines for the responsible use of AI aligned with the DOW AI Strategy.

As a Health Informatics and IT leader with over 14 years of leadership experience supporting and guiding enterprise healthcare data capabilities, Caban is recognized across the DOW and other federal agencies as a subject matter expert in MHS data.

In previous roles, Caban oversaw and managed a large portfolio of enterprise capabilities, including the MHS Digital Biobank (enterprise bioinformatics and genomics capabilities), MHS Patient Registries, MHS Common Data Model, DAVINCI (DOW/VA data exchange service), several AI/ML projects, data science literacy, and the implementation, testing, and rollout of enterprise data science capabilities used by analysts and researchers across Health Affairs, the Defense Health Agency, and the Uniformed Services University.

Caban is an accomplished researcher with over 50 scientific publications and currently serves as adjunct faculty.

Cody Inman serves as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), where he oversees agency-wide programs advancing the well-being of children, youth, and families. He also performs the duties of the Commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) (delegated), overseeing the Children’s Bureau and the Family and Youth Services Bureau.

Inman brings extensive leadership experience across federal and state government, with a strong background in human services policy, grants management, and technology modernization. He has led government-wide efforts to modernize federal grants systems, coordinating across more than 50 agencies to improve transparency, performance, and program integrity across a $600 billion portfolio.

He previously served as a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Governor of Oklahoma. He also held senior leadership roles at the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, leading reforms across child welfare, disability, and aging systems to improve access and services for individuals with high-acuity needs.

Throughout his career, Inman has focused on connecting policy, technology, and operations to strengthen program delivery, improve program integrity, and achieve better outcomes in human services.

He is a graduate of Oral Roberts University, where he earned a degree in pre-law with a minor in business management and history.

Jennifer Johnson is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisitions (DAS-A) and Senior Procurement Executive (SPE) – the top Department executive responsible for the strategic management, oversight, and execution of HHS' acquisition programs. In this capacity, she provides executive leadership in shaping acquisition policy, ensuring compliance with Federal acquisition statutes, driving operational excellence across all procurement activities, and serves as the principal acquisition advisor to HHS senior leadership, including the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, and Chief Acquisition Officer (CAO)/Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources (ASFR) in carrying out their responsibilities for leading the Department’s acquisition program of over $25B annually in federal contracts.

Previously, Ms. Johnson served as the Executive Director for the Office of Acquisition Policy, Legislation, Oversight & Workforce for HHS where she advised the DAS-A/HHS SPE and CAO/ASFR on the formulation and promulgation of Department-wide policy, proposed legislation, regulations governing the Department's acquisition programs, and provided executive leadership of the acquisition workforce certification, training and development and procurement oversight and compliance programs.

Prior to joining HHS, Ms. Johnson served as Associate Director for Acquisition Policy, Oversight and Business Strategies for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Office of the Senior Procurement Executive in the Office of the Secretary (OST). Earlier in her career, she previously held roles as an Acquisition Policy Team Lead, Small Business Specialist and Contracting Officer at the Federal Highway Administration. She worked as a contracting professional in the private sector prior to joining the Federal Government. Ms. Johnson has over 19 years of experience as an acquisition professional and holds a Master of Public Administration, Bachelor of Science of Administration of Justice – both from George Mason University and a Master’s Certificate in Government Contracting from The George Washington University.

Melanie Keller, MBA, serves as the Food and Drug Administration's Deputy Commissioner for Operations and Chief Operating Officer.  In this role, Ms. Keller leads the management of business programs and operations, including human resources and facilities, across the global FDA enterprise of nearly 17,000 world-class scientific, technical, and professional experts dedicated to promoting and protecting the public health of all Americans.

Ms. Keller brings 30 years of distinguished operational leadership within the Department of Health and Human Services. She is a recognized transformational leader and a trusted advisor to senior leadership.  Before assuming her current position, Ms. Keller served as the FDA's Deputy Associate Commissioner for Operations and Deputy Chief Operating Officer, where she was responsible for directing a $7 billion enterprise budget and an operations department of over 3,000 employees delivering shared services to FDA Centers, Offices, and Programs.

Prior to that, she was the agency’s Chief Talent Officer for eight years, where she led the transformation and implementation of an alternative hiring and pay system that provides enhanced pay flexibility and faster time-to-hire for the world-class workforce the FDA requires for its public health mission. Before that, Ms. Keller served for seven years as Executive Officer in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, directing a $3 billion budget and leading operations for the center, including overseeing the management functions that support drug evaluation and research activities.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Keller spent 11 years in various leadership roles at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including as the as the Executive Officer at the Center for Scientific Review, ensuring that NIH grant applications received fair, independent, expert, and timely reviews free from inappropriate influences among other roles.

Ms. Keller holds a B.S. in Management Studies and Human Resources and an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland Global Campus and is a graduate of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. 

Dr. Ronald (Ron) Miller was appointed as the Chief Officer of Support Operations in January 2025. Dr. Miller's portfolio includes 
ten Program Offices in Operations, and he advises the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Deputy COO on matters involving 
VHA's Healthcare Environment and Facilities Programs, Acquisitions, Supply Chain, Healthcare Technology Management, Veterans Canteen Service, National Center for High Consequence
Infections, Emergency Management, Police, Center for Development and Civic Engagement, and Member Services. 
Prior to joining the Veterans Health Administration, he was with the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), serving as the Senior Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Resource Management, where he provided
guidance and support for Departmental and ASPR priorities, including interagency collaboration, logistics, information technology, contracting and business operations. In addition, from 2015 to 2019, 
he served as the Director for the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), which responded globally to provide medical support to those affected by natural and man-made disasters.

Ron is a U.S. Army Veteran. He received his bachelor’s degree from Chaminade University, his master's degree from the University of Maryland, and his doctorate from the University of Phoenix. He 
is also a graduate of Harvard University’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative and the Federal Executive Institute. He has an Executive Change Management certification from Cornell 
University and Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act Certifications in Program Management and Contracting Officer Representative.

Dr. Sean Mooney, Ph.D., serves as the Director of the NIH Center for Information Technology and the NIH Associate Director for Information Technology, Cyberinfrastructure and Cybersecurity (AD ITCC). As the Director of CIT, he is responsible for providing leadership, vision, and direction for CIT. This includes overseeing an approximately $400 million portfolio that includes a world-renowned supercomputer that allows researchers to conduct large-scale data analyses; a state-of-the-art network that enables research across NIH and around the world; cloud-based services that give researchers a cost-effective way to access datasets and advanced computational tools and services; and the latest collaboration tools to promote flexibility and productivity.

As the Associate Director for ITCC, Dr. Mooney oversees the NIH Office of the Chief Information Officer, which is responsible for NIH enterprise IT strategy, policy, architecture and oversight. Before joining CIT, Dr. Mooney served as a Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine. He also served as Chief Research Information Officer of UW Medicine, Interim Director for the UW Institute for Medical Data Science, Associate Director of the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center, and Director of Informatics for the UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences. A Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, Dr. Mooney holds a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of California, San Francisco, a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and was an American Cancer Society John Peter Hoffman Fellow in the Department of Genetics and Stanford Medical Informatics at Stanford University.

Mr. James A. Perkins serves as the acting program executive officer for the Program Executive Office, Defense Healthcare Management Systems. The mission of PEO DHMS is to acquire and deliver health care technology that enriches patient care. Mr. Perkins provides direct support to the 
Program Executive Officer and oversees multiple program offices, including the DOD Healthcare Management System Modernization’s delivery of a single, common, federal electronic health record;
the Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems’ delivery of operational medicine capabilities;
and the Enterprise Intelligence and Data Solutions’ data management.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Previously, Mr. Perkins served as the deputy program manager for the DHMSM program management office. He provided direction and guidance for the acquisition, modernization, testing, product improvements, deployment, and sustainment for the Department of Defense’s electronic health record, MHS GENESIS. He also oversaw cost estimating, planning, programming, budgeting,
program integration, and interoperability.
Before joining DHMSM, he served as chief of staff for the Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization program office. In this role, he planned and directed all administrative, financial, and operational activities for the director and deputy director of the FEHRM. Mr. Perkins organized and prioritized critical issues and required information to facilitate efficient decision making to support the implementation of a common federal EHR with the DOD, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Coast Guard. He also served as assistant program manager of business operations for the DHMSM PMO, providing direction and oversight of program operations and controls, finance/budget execution, and contract management. Additionally, Mr. Perkins served as an information technology director at the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, overseeing the information management/IT budget development and
execution. He drove IM/IT policy and strategic planning, as well as cyber workforce strategy, planning, development, and support programs for IM/IT resources. He held additional positions within the Military Health System, supporting the Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, Force Health Protection and Readiness, Program Executive Office for Joint Medical Information Systems, and Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support program office. Mr. Perkins is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.

EDUCATION

Mr. Perkins earned a bachelor of science degree in business management and an MBA. His professional executive education was conducted at the Harvard Business School, where he completed the General Management Program. Mr. Perkins’ awards include the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award, the Presidential Service Badge, the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (2nd Award), and numerous civilian and military letters and certificates of r ecognition.