The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is a department of the United States government,part of the Executive Office of the President (EOP),established by United States Congress on May 11,1976,with a broad mandate to advise the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs.
whitehouse.gov is the official website of the White House and is managed by the Office of Digital Strategy. It was launched in 1994 by the Clinton administration. The content of the website is in the public domain or licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license.
Aneesh Paul Chopra is an American executive who served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States. He was appointed in 2009 by President Barack Obama and was at the White House through 2012. Chopra previously served as Virginia's Secretary of Technology under Governor Tim Kaine. Chopra was a candidate in 2013 for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. He is the author of Innovative State:How New Technologies Can Transform Government (2014) and co-founder and president of CareJourney. In 2015 he joined Albright Stonebridge Group as a senior advisor.
The United States Chief Technology Officer is an official in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The U.S. CTO helps the President and their team harness the power of technology and data to benefit all Americans. The CTO works closely with others both across and outside government on a broad range of work including bringing technology expertise to bear on federal policy and programs,and promoting values-driven technological innovation. The CTO and their team have historically focused on leveraging technology and technical expertise to help create jobs,strengthen privacy protections,harness the benefits and mitigate the risks of artificial intelligence,create paths to improve government services with lower costs,higher quality and increased transparency and accessibility,help upgrade agencies to use open data and expand their data science capabilities,improve quality and reduce the costs of health care and criminal justice,increase access to broadband,bring technical talent into government for policy and modern operations input,improve community innovation engagement by agencies working on local challenges,and help keep the nation secure.
Francis Sellers Collins is an American physician-scientist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He served as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda,Maryland,from 17 August 2009 to 19 December 2021,serving under three presidents.
Todd Park is a Korean American entrepreneur and government executive. He served as Chief Technology Officer of the United States and technology advisor for U.S. President Barack Obama.
Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics,scientific computing,scientific methods,processes,algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from potentially noisy,structured,or unstructured data.
The Presidential Innovation Fellows program is a competitive fellowship program that pairs top innovators from the private sector,non-profits,and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate on solutions that aim to deliver significant results in months,not years. It was established in 2012 and has operated continuously since then. The program focuses on generating measurable results,using innovation techniques from private industry such as Lean Startup,Design Thinking,and Agile Development.
The White House BRAIN Initiative is a collaborative,public-private research initiative announced by the Obama administration on April 2,2013,with the goal of supporting the development and application of innovative technologies that can create a dynamic understanding of brain function.
Lisa Oudens Monaco is an American attorney,former federal prosecutor and national security official who has served as the 39th and current United States Deputy Attorney General since April 21,2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
The Climate Action Plan is an environmental plan by Barack Obama,the 44th President of the United States,that proposed a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. It included preserving forests,encouraging alternate fuels,and increasing the study of climate change. The plan was first prepared in 2008 and was then updated every two years.
The All of Us Research Program is a research program created in 2015 during the tenure of Barack Obama with $130 million in funding that aims to make advances in tailoring medical care to the individual. The mission of All of Us is to accelerate health and medical breakthroughs,enabling individualized prevention,treatment and care.
White House Astronomy Night is an event first organized by the White House in conjunction with the Office of Science and Technology Policy to motivate interest in astronomy and science education. The original White House Astronomy Night was held in 2009 on the South Lawn. In 2010 the White House and the Office of Science and Technology Policy organized a similar event with help from Hofstra University,this time held on the National Mall. Between 2010 and 2014 annual events took place at the National Mall with coordination between Hofstra University and federal agencies including:the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum,NASA,and the National Science Foundation. In 2015 an event took place in June at the National Mall,and then back at the White House again on October 19.
The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) is a central hub of research and education within University of California,Berkeley designed to facilitate data-intensive science and earn grants to be disseminated within the sciences. BIDS was initially funded by grants from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Sloan Foundation as part of a three-year grant with data science institutes at New York University and the University of Washington. The objective of the three-university initiative is to bring together domain experts from the natural and social sciences,along with methodological experts from computer science,statistics,and applied mathematics. The organization has an executive director and a faculty director,Saul Perlmutter,who won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. The initiative was announced at a White House Office of Science and Technology Policy event to highlight and promote advances in data-driven scientific discovery,and is a core component of the National Science Foundation's strategic plan for building national capacity in data science.
Jeff Hammerbacher is a data scientist. He was chief scientist and cofounder at Cloudera and later served on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
The President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) is a U.S. Government initiative to control and eliminate malaria,one of the leading global causes of premature death and disability. The initiative was originally launched by U.S. president George W. Bush in 2005,and has been continued by each successive U.S. president.
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub,or simply Biohub,is a nonprofit research organization. In addition to supporting and conducting original research,CZ Biohub acts as a hub and fosters science collaboration between UC Berkeley,UC San Francisco (UCSF) and Stanford. The Biohub is funded by a $600 million contribution from Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. It was co-led by Stephen Quake and Joseph DeRisi from its inception in 2016 until 2022,when Quake left to become president of the Biohub Network. Sandra Schmid joined as Chief Scientific Officer in 2020.
Michael John Kotsakas Kratsios is an American business executive and government official. He served as the fourth Chief Technology Officer of the United States at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In this role,Kratsios served as President Donald Trump's top technology advisor. From July 10,2020 to January 20,2021,Kratsios was also the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
Cristin Ann Dorgelo is the senior advisor for management at the White House Office of Management and Budget. Dorgelo is the president emeritus of the Association of Science and Technology Centers,where she previously served as president and CEO. Dorgelo served as the chief of staff at the Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Barack Obama White House.
Esteban González Burchard is an American physician-scientist,a UCSF Distinguished,Endowed,Tenured Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine,Pulmonary &Critical Care Physician-Scientist trained in Genetics,Immunology,Epidemiology,Pharmacogenetics,and clinical phase 1 trials. A specialist in gene-environment interactions in asthma and health disparities.
