How to Interact with a Program Officer/Director
Informal discussion with Dr. Lynda Hardy, a former Program Officer at the NIH, and Dr. Martha Peterson, a former Program Director at the NSF, to learn about how to interact and receive feedback from funders.
Lynda Hardy PhD, RN, FAAN
Lynda Hardy PhD, RN, FAAN is an Associate Professor of Clinical Practice at The Ohio State University College of Nursing and Affiliate Faculty in the Translational Data and Analytics Institute. Dr. Hardy’s previous work as an NIH Program Officer and Team Lead, focused on the oversight of a large portfolio that included health and wellness, women and children’s health, global and environmental health and infectious diseases, notably HIV/AIDS. She represented her NIH institute in the NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative that focused on data standardization and sharing. Dr. Hardy further worked, within nursing, to develop a data and informatics plan to begin the consideration of common data elements in nursing while representing her Institute at the NIH Fogarty International Center focusing on national and international healthcare problems through trending and data analysis. As the Director of Data Science and Discovery, Dr. Hardy is working toward a national and international approach to data use and sharing focusing on algorithmic racial bias in patient-care decision-making.
Martha Peterson, PhD
Martha Peterson, PhD is a professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Kentucky and is also a member of the Markey Cancer Center. Dr. Peterson studies gene expression regulation and is using tissue culture cell lines, as well as mouse models, to learn more about gene regulation during liver development and disease. She spent two years as a Program Director in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at the National Science Foundation. She became Associate Vice President for Research in 2007. Within the Office of the Vice President for Research, Dr. Peterson manages the VPR internal grants programs, oversees the Limited Submission process, serves as faculty representative for the Federal Demonstration Partnership, facilitates the work of the Office of Research Communications, facilitates the work of the Proposal Development Office, and advises the VPR on policy and program offerings.
