About Us

Anita Linde
Office of Science Policy and Planning
Director


Phone: 301-496-8271
Fax: 301-480-0183
Building: 31, Room: 4C13
E-mail: lindea@mail.nih.gov 

Anita Linde has served as the Director for the NIAMS Office of Science Policy and Planning, in the Office of the Director since 2005. She oversees and manages the science policy, strategic planning, and program evaluation activities of the Institute. She also supervises the NIAMS legislative liaison, who coordinates the Institute’s Congressional interactions. Anita currently serves on the NIH Steering Committee Working Group for the new NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives and on the NIH Evaluation Oversight Committee.

Anita joined the NIH in 1994 as a Presidential Management Intern, and she has held a number of positions in management analysis, legislative analysis, communications and public liaison, and science policy and planning. She received her B.A. in Comparative Literature and French from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and her M.P.P. from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. She is a 2004 graduate of the Senior Executive Fellows Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a 2005 graduate of the NIH Senior Leadership Development Program.