Program Specialist
Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Branch, Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program
Telephone: 240-276-6687
Email: cookal@mail.nih.gov
- MEM (Masters of Environmental Management) Resource Ecology Concentration, Duke School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
- BS - Plant Science, University of California at Davis
Biography
Allison Cook is a program specialist in the Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP). Her responsibilities include providing programmatic and administrative support to EGRP's Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Branch. She currently supports EGRP’s Infectious Agents and Cancer (IACER) webinar series and a subcommittee of the DCCPS Climate Change Strategic Priorities Work Group.
Ms. Cook has worked for NIH since 2004. Before joining EGRP, she held a position in the Tobacco Control Research Program (TCRB) within the Division of Cancer Control and Population Science's (DCCPS) Behavioral Research Program (BRP), where she provided broad administrative support.
In her former career as an environmental consultant, Ms. Cook prepared an environmental impact statement for the National Science Foundation's United States Antarctic Program, supervised Environmental Protection Agency contracts in the areas of global change and environmental hazard assessment at a consulting firm, and prepared a National Environmental Policy Act guidance manual for the President's Council on Environmental Quality.