Belinda Seto, Ph.D.

Dr. Belinda Seto was appointed deputy director of the Office of Data Science Strategy, NIH, in 2019. Her principal areas of responsibilities are clinical informatics, including standards, common data elements and real world data.  A former deputy director of the National Eye Institute and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, she brings organizational leadership experience and scientific knowledge to the position. After earning her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Purdue University, Dr. Seto completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Stadtman Lab of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. She conducted research on hepatitis B and vaccine development at the FDA. She was a Program Director in the Office of Research on Minority Health, NIH, where she led seminal studies on infant mortality, and Minority Youth Health Behavior studies.   As the Deputy Director of the Office of Extramural Research, she led initiatives in database management, open access to NIH funding trends, and data sharing policy. Her experience in database management, analysis and extramural grants policies led to the appointment by the Director, NIH, to the NIH Scientific Data Council (2018-2021) and the Department of Health and Human Services Data Council.