Dr. Alfred C. Johnson was appointed as the Deputy Director for Management and Chief Financial Officer for the National Institutes of Health, the largest biomedical research organization in the world, in May 2017. As Deputy Director for Management he advises the Director, NIH, and senior officials on all phases of NIH-wide administration and provides oversight for budget and finance; human resources; management assessment and policy; program integrity; contracts, procurement, and logistics; engineering services; safety, space, and facility management; support services; and security operations. Dr. Johnson is the principal NIH contact on administrative and management matters for the Department of Health & Human Services and other federal agencies.Prior to taking on the Deputy Director for Management role, Dr. Johnson served as the NIH Associate Director for Research Services and Director of the Office of Research Services (ORS) for ten years. As the ORS Director, he planned and directed service programs for public safety and security operations, scientific and regulatory support, and a wide variety of other program and employee services. In this capacity, he served as the Chief Security Officer, the Designated Agency Safety and Health Official and the Senior Official for Health and Wellness. He managed a staff of over 550 federal employees, over 1400 contract employees and a budget of over $250 million to deliver programs and services to the NIH community.Dr. Johnson has also served an Assistant Director in the NIH Office of Intramural Research, the Acting Director, Division of Loan Repayment, Director of the NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program and was a Principal Investigator in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the National Cancer Institute. His research was in the molecular biology of cancer arena focused on regulation of epidermal growth factor receptor gene expression. Dr. Johnson was born and raised in Alabama. He earned a bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, in chemistry from Albany State University, Albany, Georgia and a doctorate degree in biomedical sciences from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.