Biography
Dr. Anna Roberts-Pilgrim
AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow
National Nanotechnology Coordination Office
Class of 2024-2026
Dr. Anna Roberts-Pilgrim is currently a second year American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science & Technology Policy Fellow. She spent her first year with the program at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, where she used her expertise to evaluate and develop projects pertinent to women’s health.
Before her fellowship, she served as a scientific writer and analyst in the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH), primarily overseeing the director's presentation staff while developing speeches on women's health research and equity and the NIH policy surrounding sex as a biological variable. She also served as coordinator of the Coordinating Committee on Women's Health Research — one of two congressionally mandated core advisory groups to the ORWH.
Her previous roles also include scientific communications editor at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, where she was responsible for publicizing the scientific advances of the extramural research team through written media, scientific webinars, social media, and press release coordination with research scientists, institute/university communications departments, and the NCI.
Anna holds two postdoctoral fellowships from Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Services.
Her policy interests focus on providing equitable scientific opportunities to women in biomedical careers, increasing equitable access to health care for women in underserved communities and funding for research on women's health.