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Flagg-Newton, Jean L

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 Phone:301-435-2722
 E-mail:flaggnej@mail.nih.gov
 Address: 6100 Executive Blvd Room 5E03, MSC 7510
Bethesda Md 20892-7510
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Rockville Md 20852
 Fax:301-480-0393 
 Organization:  Division of Special Populations (DSP)
 Specialty: Health Disparities
Minority Population Research

Biosketch: 
Jean Flagg-Newton, Ph.D., holds a B.S. from Tennessee State University, earned a Ph.D. in physiology at Harvard University, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida. Dr. Flagg-Newton began her career as a research associate and later became an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She has served in a number of capacities at the NIH, including scientific review administrator (National Institute of General Medical Sciences); program officer for the Research Collaborative Awards Program and the Minority International Research Training Program (both at Fogarty International Center [FIC]); Minority Health Initiative coordinator, and Deputy Director, Office of Research on Minority Health, NIH; and Deputy Director and Chief, Office of Research, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Dr. Flagg-Newton returned to FIC in 2004 as a special assistant in the Office of the Acting Director. She is currently a special assistant to the EA Program director and a program officer for the Program, within the NICHD Division of Special Populations.