Margaret A. Anderson
Margaret Anderson joined FasterCures in June 2004 as Chief Operating Officer. She comes to the organization after five years at the Academy for Educational Development (AED) in Washington, DC. At AED, she was the deputy director and a team leader in the Center on AIDS & Community Health. In that capacity, she assisted the senior vice president in managing a 70-person domestic and international staff. Her responsibilities included financial and budget oversight, management of a team, projects and staff, and strategic planning. She managed a portfolio that consisted of grants and contracts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Ford Foundation, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Project activities included a diffusion of effective behavioral interventions (DEBI) project, which provided curriculum development and training on eight proven effective HIV prevention interventions; an anti-HIV/AIDS stigma project; an annual health summit for community health agencies; and over 20 other CDC task order projects.
Between 1995 and 1998, Anderson was program director for the Society for Women’s Health Research. At the Society, she managed grant-funded programs including: the startup planning for the multi-year campaign Some Things Only a Women Can Do to increase women’s awareness of and participation in clinical trials, the Get Real: Straight Talk About Women’s Health campaign for college campuses to improve young women’s health, the Vive La Difference video and facilitator’s guide to provide information about sex-based biology, and the annual Scientific Advisory Meeting.
Prior to joining the Society, Anderson was a health science analyst at the American Public Health Association (APHA) from 1992 to 1995, where she managed a programmatic portfolio on HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, infectious diseases, women’s health, and public health infrastructure issues. At APHA, she staffed the AIDS Working Group, the Science Board and the Long Term Care Task Force, and wrote a series of reports on emerging HIV/AIDS issues.
From 1987 to 1991, Anderson was an analyst and project director at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. As a staff member in the Biological Applications Program, she contributed to studies on the societal implications of genetic testing. She directed reports on genetic and medical testing in the workplace, and contributed to reports on forensic uses of DNA testing, cystic fibrosis screening, and U.S. investment in biotechnology.
Anderson currently serves as a member of the Whitman-Walker Clinic Institutional Review Board and has held numerous committee and coalition memberships for federal agencies and professional associations in the biomedical and public health arena. Anderson holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland, and a master’s degree in science, technology, and public policy from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. She resides with her husband Jeffrey D’Eramo, a travel and logistics manager, and their daughter Lucy, in Washington, DC.
