Sally L. McCammon, Ph. D.

As Science Advisor, Dr. McCammon heads the Office of Science for the Deputy Administrator for Biotechnology Regulatory Services (BRS) within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

In this capacity, she works to assure the appropriate scientific basis for policies, regulations, and assessment decisions in biotechnology. She is the agency representative to the inter-agency Agriculture Biotechnology Risk Analysis Task Force on biosafety research priorities; directs peer review processes for highly significant scientific and technical reports for BRS; is the liaison to the National Academy of Sciences for reports on biotechnology; and is the symposium chair for the 9th International Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms.

Internationally, she currently chairs the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Working Group on Harmonization of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology (Working Group) and was the alternate U. S. delegate to the first Codex Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Biotechnology. She has represented the United States in activities aimed at implementing the Biosafety Protocol, particularly the BioSafety Clearinghouse, as well as the International Plant Protection Convention.

She lead the U.S. government in the development of the United States Regulatory Agencies Unified Biotechnology Website; has served on the White House Agriculture Biotechnology Policy Group that developed updated field testing requirements; and has delivered testimony for APHIS to the U.S. Congress.

She has been involved with regulatory review and biosafety assessment and policy issues and international biotechnology regulatory harmonization for over seventeen years. She has been an invited speaker and participant in numerous international and national meetings, workshops, and symposia. She has a Ph.D. in plant pathology from the University of Kentucky.