21st Century Cures Act: Update on Implementation

<p>CAPT Brianna Skinner is a Commissioned Corps officer in the U.S. Public Health Service who has also served in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps. As a uniformed service officer, she has proudly served her country within the continental United States and abroad on several humanitarian and disaster response missions. She is currently assigned to the Office of Countermeasures and Emerging Threats (OCET), Office of the Chief Scientist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) where she currently serves as a Senior Regulatory Veterinarian and animal model expert for the administration of policies to facilitate the availability of safe and effective medical countermeasures against chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear agents and emerging threats. CAPT Skinner is the Chair for FDA’s Animal Welfare Council and serves as the CoLead of FDA’s One Health Steering Committee’s operational activities and is the OCS One Health representative. Prior to transferring to the FDA, she worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for over eleven years leading clinical operations within the vivarium, consulting with principal investigators on animal care and use with infectious disease research from biosafety levels 1 – 4, and training laboratory animal veterinarians. She earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Tuskegee University, her Master’s in Public Health from Benedictine University, and is board certified in laboratory animal medicine with the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine.</p>