Anna Han, Ph.D.
Anna Han, Ph.D., serves as Acting Director of the NEI Division of Extramural Activities, which oversees research administration policies, peer review, and grants management functions. She also serves as Executive Secretary for the National Advisory Eye Council and as a Senior Advisor to the Office of the NEI Director.
Dr. Han has been at NIH since 2015, and has extensive expertise in program evaluation, statistics and data, strategic planning, and advisory roles in biomedical and social-behavioral domains. Prior to joining NEI in 2024, she served in various senior advisory roles at NIH and as the NIGMS’ Common Fund project scientist.
Before coming to NIH, Anna was a tenured Associate Professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, overseeing a lab and managing an extensive research portfolio around understanding how attitudes impact decisions and behavior, exploring the effects of implicit and explicit measures of bias.