Andrea Hodgson

Andrea Hodgson currently serves as the Director and Program Scientist at Schmidt Sciences, a position held since February 2024. Prior roles include Program Scientist and Fellow at Schmidt Futures from August 2021 to January 2024, and Senior Program Officer, Program Officer, and Associate Program Officer at The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine from January 2016 to July 2021. Andrea began academic training as a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where research focused on the inflammatory response to bacterial infection and mentoring junior researchers. Andrea also contributed as a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellow, assisting the Board on Life Sciences. Academic qualifications include a Ph.D. in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and an undergraduate degree in Microbiology from the University of Rhode Island.