Monica Feit

Monica N. Feit is the Executive Officer of the National Academy of Sciences. Previously, she served in various leadership roles in the National Research Council including Executive Director of the Health and Medicine Division. Dr. Feit was a member of the Senior Executive Service in the Department of Health and Human Services and served as a congressional staffer on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Dr. Feit directs the Academy's membership activities, including the election of its officers and members, and their annual and regional meetings; the offices of the Academy president, vice president, and home secretary, and its governing Council; program activities, including NAS awards, bilateral scientific Forums with the UK and Israel, the US and multi-national Frontiers of Science symposia; the LabX public engagement program; and the Office of Cultural Programs, which presents activities that explore the intersections among the arts, science, and popular culture. She is the executive publisher of the Proceedings, the Academy's journal of original research, and PNAS Nexus, an open access scientific journal focused on the publication of high-quality original research from across the biological, medical, physical, social, and political sciences, and engineering and mathematics.

Dr. Feit holds a PhD from London South Bank University, MPH from Columbia University, and BA in Government from Smith College.

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