Institution

US Food and Drug Administration

Based in

United States , Upper Marlboro

Languages

English

Short Bio

CAPT Brianna Skinner is a Commissioned Corps officer in the U.S. Public Health Service who has also served in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps. As a uniformed service officer, she has proudly served her country for the past 25 years within the continental United States and abroad on several humanitarian and disaster response missions. She is currently assigned to the Office of Regulatory and Emerging Science at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) where she currently serves as a Senior Regulatory Veterinarian and animal model expert for the administration of policies to facilitate the availability of safe and effective medical countermeasures for preparedness and emerging science. Prior to transferring to the FDA, she worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for over eleven years leading clinical operations within the vivarium, consulting with principal investigators on animal care and use with infectious disease research from biosafety levels 1 – 4, and training laboratory animal veterinarians. She earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Tuskegee University, her Master’s in Public Health from Benedictine University, and is board-certified in laboratory animal medicine with the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine.

Other Expertise

One Health Zoonoses Public Health Pandemic Prevention Preparedness and Response Veterinary Public Health Operationalization of One Health