Liza Hamilton, Mla, Mph Email and Phone Number

Senior Program Officer/Study Director with the Laboratory Assessments Board of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. In this role I lead assessments of the Army Research Laboratory with the goal of improving Army research and development for technological overmatch. Formerly worked on the Intelligence Community Studies Board within the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine's (NASEM's) Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences. Helped with the development of studies and communications focused on health security, counter-terrorism, public-private partnerships for DOD space systems, and intelligence. Former Director of the Forum on Global Violence Prevention, the Forum on Public-Private Partnerships for Global Health and Safety, and Program Officer within the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine's (NASEM's) Health and Medicine Division. I developed workshops, proceedings, and papers that explored the most salient research and interventions in the areas of global violence prevention, health equity, biosecurity, and public-private partnerships for global health. In 2018-2019 I also directed eight assessments of the foundational scientific research within the U.S. Army to produce a large report of it for the Army Futures Command, the Pentagon, and Congress. I also directed several laboratory assessments sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The NIST laboratory assessments have served to brief congress on the technical quality of NIST's laboratories. Additionally, I am also a former rape recovery counselor and community trainer, who has direct intervention experience with men, women, and children who have been sexually assaulted. I also served on the deradicalization frontlines devoloping interventions for a nonprofit devoted to counter-terrorism. My graduate thesis for my Masters of Public Health focused on the Epigenetics of War Trauma and Genocide.