NTI is a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Dr. Hamburg began her service with NTI as the founding Vice President for Biological Threats, developing the strategic plan and grant-making portfolio in that area, as well as the creation of the Global Health and Security Initiative to address the broad range of biological threats to health. Before joining NTI, Dr. Hamburg was the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the role of principal policy advisor to the Secretary. Prior to this, she served for almost six years as the Commissioner of Health for the City of New York. Previous work experience also includes Assistant Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Hamburg is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. She completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the New York Hospital/Cornell University Medical Center and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Hamburg serves on many boards, including the Sidwell Friends School, the Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller University, Trust for America’s Health, Doctor’s of the World and Henry Schein, Inc. She has been elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences (where she serves on their Executive Council and Chair of the Board on Global Health), the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science and of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Hamburg serves on numerous advisory boards and committees, including the Central Intelligence Agency’s Intelligence Science Board, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services’ Council on Public Health Preparedness, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response Department of the World Health Organization. She is a former member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers and the Visiting Committee for the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Hamburg has published a wide range of scientific articles, and is frequently asked to lecture, provide testimony at Congressional hearings and give media interviews. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Radcliffe Alumnae Award, the Lung Association Breath of Life Award and several Honorary Degrees.

Dr. Hamburg lives in Washington D.C. with her husband, Peter Brown, and their two children, Rachel and Evan Brown.