Vice President ICSTI, Assistant Director for Policy Development
Currently on secondment to the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Jerry Sheehan is Assistant Director for Scientific Data and Information at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). He leads Administration efforts to increase access to the results of Federally funded scientific research. Mr. Sheehan joined OSTP from the National Institutes of Health where he serves as Assistant Director for Policy Development at the National Library of Medicine, where he contributed to the formulation and implementation of numerous policies related to scientific data sharing, clinical trial registration and results information, genomic data sharing, public access to NIH-funded publications, and to NIH’s Big Data To Knowledge (BD2K) initiative. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Technology & Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
