Born : July 12, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. ( [HK0078][GDrive] )
Parents - Dr. David Allen Hamburg (born 1925) and Beatrix Hamburg
Married to Dr. Peter Fitzhugh Brown (born 1955)
Personal details
Spouse(s) : [Dr. Peter Fitzhugh Brown (born 1955)]
Relatives : Beatrix Hamburg (Mother) / [Dr. David Allen Hamburg (born 1925)] (Father)
Education : Harvard University (BA, MD)
Government Offices
Commissioner of Food and Drugs
In office : May 22, 2009 – April 3, 2015
President : Barack Obama
Preceded by : Andrew von Eschenbach / Succeeded by : Robert Califf
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation
In office : 1997–2001
President : Bill Clinton
Preceded by : Peter Edelman[1] / Succeeded by : Bobby Jindal[2]
Health Commissioner of New York City
In office : December 24, 1991 – April 15, 1997 / Acting: June 11, 1991 – December 24, 1991
Mayor : David Dinkins / Rudy Giuliani
Preceded by : Woody Myers / Succeeded by : Benjamin Mojica
Margaret Ann "Peggy" Hamburg (born July 12, 1955, Chicago, Illinois) is an Americanphysician and public health administrator, who is serving as the chair of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[3] She served as the 21st Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from May 2009 to April 2015.[4]
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Hamburg graduated from Harvard College in 1977 and earned her M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1983.[citation needed] She completed her medical residency training at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine.
Following her medical training, Hamburg moved to Washington, D.C., to begin her career in public service. She served in several roles, including Assistant Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health. In 1991 Hamburg was appointed Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where she served for six years, working first for Mayor David Dinkins and then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani. During her tenure, she worked on improved services for women and children, a needle-exchange program to reduce HIV transmission, a program to curtail the resurgence and spread of tuberculosis, and the nation's first public health bioterrorism preparedness program.[5]
In 1997, President Bill Clinton appointed Hamburg as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She served in this policy role until 2001 when she became the founding Vice President for Biological Programs and later the Senior Scientist for the Nuclear Threat Initiative,[6] a foundation dedicated to reducing the threat to public safety from nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. In that role, Hamburg spearheaded efforts to prevent, detect, and respond to both naturally occurring and deliberately caused biological threats.
Hamburg was nominated by President Barack Obama in March 2009 to become Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration,[7] and was unanimously confirmed in May 2009.[8] As FDA Commissioner she was known for advancing regulatory science, streamlining and modernizing FDA's regulatory pathways, and globalization of the agency, as well as the implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (2009), the Food Safety Modernization Act (2011), and a review of the system for the evaluation and approval of medical devices.
Hamburg was the longest-serving FDA commissioner since David A. Kessler, and was the second woman to hold the position.[9]
In April 2015 Hamburg was appointed Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of Medicine.[10]In December 2016, Hamburg was named president-elect for the AAAS.[11] She serves a three-year term as an officer and member of the Executive Committee of the AAAS Board of Directors beginning in February 2017.
Margaret A. Hamburg at Spotlight Health, Aspen Ideas Festival, in 2015.
Hamburg is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American College of Physicians, as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Academy of Medicine, where she now serves as Foreign Secretary.
Hamburg has received numerous awards, among them the National Consumers League's Trumpeter Award in 2011[12] and the National Center for Health Research's 2011 Health Research Policy Hero Award.[13] She has also received the American College of Clinical Pharmacology's (ACCP) Nathaniel T. Kwit Memorial Distinguished Service Award,[14] the New York Academy of Medicine Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Health Policy,[15] the Radcliffe Alumnae Award and the American Lung Association's Breath of Life Award. Hamburg was the 2017 recipient of the FDAAA's Harvey W. Wiley Lecture Award for Outstanding Leadership in Advancing Public Health.
She is a distinguished senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies[16] and holds several Honorary Degrees.
Forbes named her as one of the world's 100 most powerful women multiple times, most recently in 2014 (#51).[17]
Corporate boards
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, member of the board of directors (since 2018)[18]
Non-profit organizations
American Museum of Natural History, member of the board of trustees[19]
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, member of the Global Health Scientific Advisory Committee[20]
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), chair of the Joint Coordinating Group
Commonwealth Fund, member of the board of directors[21]
Centre of Regulatory Excellence (CoRE), Duke–NUS Medical School, member of the advisory board[22]
Department of Global Health, University of Washington, member of the external advisory board[23]
GAVI Alliance, member of the board[24]
Harvard Medical School, member of the board of fellows[25]
Harvard University, member of the global advisory council
Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), member of the board of directors[26]
Simons Foundation, member of the scientific advisory board for the Autism Research Initiative[27]
Urban Institute, member of the board of trustees[28]
Wellcome Trust, member of the Strategic Advisory Board on Vaccines and Drug-resistant Infections[29]
World Dementia Council, member of the board
Hamburg formerly served on the boards of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller University, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, Conservation International and Henry Schein Inc.
In 2020, Hamburg was appointed by the Council on Foreign Relations to serve on its Independent Task Force on Improving Pandemic Preparedness, co-chaired by Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Frances Fragos Townsend.[30] That year, she also served on the CSIS-LSHTMHigh-Level Panel on Vaccine Confidence and Misinformation amid the COVID-19 pandemic, co-chaired by Heidi Larson and J. Stephen Morrison.[31]
Hamburg is the daughter of Beatrix Hamburg and David A. Hamburg, both physicians. Her mother was the first self-identified African-American woman to be accepted at Vassar College[32] and to earn a degree from the Yale University School of Medicine.[33] Her father is President Emeritus of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and also served as the president of the AAAS in 1984.[34][35]
Hamburg is married to [Dr. Peter Fitzhugh Brown (born 1955)], a computer scientist and artificial intelligence expert. Brown is the chief executive officer of Renaissance Technologies.[36] Renaissance Technologies employees were collectively the top donors to President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign[37] and collectively the third largest donors to Hillary Clinton,[38] giving $15.5 million and $16.5 million respectively.