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Luciana Borio
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| Member of the COVID-19 Advisory Board | |
| Assumed office January 20, 2021 |
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| President | Joe Biden |
| Co-chairs | David A. Kessler Vivek Murthy Marcella Nunez-Smith |
| National Security Council Director for Medical and Biodefense Preparedness | |
| In office 2017–2019 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Andrew Garrett |
| Acting Chief Scientist of the FDA | |
| In office 2015–2017 |
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| President | Barack Obama and Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Stephen Ostroff |
| Succeeded by | Denise Hinton |
| Assistant Commissioner of FDA for Counterterrorism Policy | |
| In office 2010–2017 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | RADM Boris Lushniak |
| Succeeded by | RADM Carmen Maher |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Alma mater | George Washington University (MD) |
Luciana Borio is a Brazilian-American infectious disease physician and medical/public health administrator.
She is a vice president at In-Q-Tel. She was Director for Medical and Biodefense Preparedness at the National Security Council, Acting Chief Scientist of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Assistant Commissioner for Counterterrorism Policy of the FDA, and Director of FDA's Office of Counterterrorism and Emerging Threats.
She is known for her work advancing clinical trials, the development of medical countermeasures for health emergencies, and the public health responses to Ebola and Zika outbreaks.
On November 9, 2020, U.S. president-elect Joe Biden named Borio to be one of the 13 members of his COVID-19 Advisory Board.
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