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Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program

Dana Wolff-Hughes, PhD

Program Director
Risk Factor Assessment Branch, Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program

Telephone: 240-620-0673
Email: dana.wolff@nih.gov

Degrees
  • PhD – Kinesiology
    University of Tennessee
  • MS – Exercise Physiology
    University of Tennessee
  • BS – Exercise Science
    Elon University
Contact for questions about:
  • Digital health technologies and systems (e.g., sensors, apps, medical devices)
  • Digital and artificial intelligence biomarkers
  • New data science technologies such as artificial intelligence/machine learning, computer vision, digital twins, and multimodal data fusion
  • Novel data sources such as real world data (RWD), Internet of Things data (IoT), patient generated data, or consumer data

Biography

Dana Wolff-Hughes, PhD, is a program director in the Risk Factor Assessment Branch (RFAB) of the Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP) in NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS). In this capacity, she supports work leveraging novel technology and data science approaches for cancer risk factor assessment (including physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep).

Dr. Wolff-Hughes currently serves as the NIH coordinator and NCI scientific contact for the NSF-NIH interagency Smart and Connected Health Initiative. She is also a scientific contact on funding opportunities supporting novel technologies and data science approaches including PAR-25-170 focused on digital technology derived biomarkers and the validation of digital health and AI technologies Notice of Special Interest (NOT-CA-24-031).She also co-chairs both the Trans-NIH Digital Health Working Group and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development’s (R&D) Digital Health R&D Interagency Working Group.

Prior to joining EGRP, Dr. Wolff-Hughes was a health scientist administrator for the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR). In this role, she coordinated trans-NIH initiatives focused on innovative technologies and data science approaches to advance behavioral and social sciences research. She first joined NCI as a Cancer Research Training Award fellow in the Applied Research Program (now the Healthcare Delivery Research Program) and the Behavioral Research Program.

Select Publications

See listing of articles authored by Dr. Wolff-Hughes in PubMed.

Last Updated: 20 Nov, 2024