News-Letter

May 6th, 2009

JHU Graduate Nominated to Homeland Security Department

Photo: Jae C. Hong / Associated Press
Tara O’Toole, far left, with presidential candidate Barack Obama at a roundtable discussion on nuclear non-proliferation in July 2008.

President Obama nominated Tara O’Toole to serve as under secretary for science and technology in the Department of Homeland Security. O’Toole received a Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins and was a fellow in occupational and environmental medicine at the University. She was also a member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies and was its director from 2001-2003.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, O’Toole participated in a roundtable discussion on nuclear non-proliferation with then-Senator Barack Obama. She currently serves as CEO and director of the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
–Michael Szeto
blogs.jhunewsletter.com

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