Nicholas J. Jury, Ph.D.

Health Science Policy Analyst

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Responsibilities & Activities

Dr. Jury serves as the Director of Legislative Affairs and Policy and in this role he is responsible for planning, analyzing, reporting, and communicating scientific, clinical, and policy issues and information in support of NIH nutrition research programs.  He is also charged with coordinating the implementation efforts for the Strategic Plan for NIH Nutrition Research.  Additionally, Dr. Jury is responsible for implementing the NIH commitments within the Biden-Harris Administration National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.

Biography

Dr. Jury joined the NIH Office of Nutrition Research (ONR) as a health science policy analyst in April 2021. He spent five years with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) as a science policy analyst focused on strengthening clinical data and biospecimen sharing policies, managing the NIH Regenerative Medicine Innovation Project, and producing reports to Congress before coming to the ONR. Prior to that, Dr. Jury was a senior fellow at the National Center for Health Research in Washington, D.C. where he made significant contributions to the 21st Century Cures Act and public health policies. He holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and a B.S. in cell and molecular biology from Bradley University. He completed a two and a half-year postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) where he conducted research examining the effects of age, genetics, sex as a biological variable, and chronic alcohol exposure on brain morphology and related behavioral outcomes.

 

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Health Science Policy Analyst, ONR, NIH, 2021-Present

Communications Director, White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, 2022

Science Policy Analyst, NHLBI, NIH, 2016-2021

Senior Fellow, National Center for Health Research, 2015

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, NIAAA, NIH, 2012-2015

Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 2012

B.S., Cell and Molecular Biology, Bradley University, 2006

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