NIH mourns the passing of Dr. Paul Farmer, global health leader, physician, medical anthropologist, Harvard professor, author and longtime friend of NIH. He died in Rwanda on Feb. 21.

Dr. Abby Ershow, senior nutrition scientist in the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), retired in December after 39 years at NIH. She led the ODS iodine initiative from 2014 to 2021 to strengthen research on and develop data resources for studies of iodine nutrition.

After 60 years total of government service–22 of those at NIH—NIH Police Chief Alvin Hinton has retired. He previously served in the United States Park Police (USPP) for 31 years and 7 months.

Dr. John Jacob Gart, a mathematical statistician at the National Cancer Institute from 1965 to 1991 died on Jan. 24.

NIBIB director Dr. Bruce Tromberg is among 164 academic innovators recently named to the 2021 class of National Academy of Inventors fellows. He also won the 2022 Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award by the International Society of Optical Engineering.

The council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently announced election of 564 members as 2021 AAAS fellows. Six NIH’ers are among the honorees.

Roni Falk, staff scientist in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch (MEB), retired from the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics in December, after 38 years of distinguished service to the National Cancer Institute.

OBSSR deputy director Dr. Christine M. Hunter began serving as acting NIH associate director for behavioral and social sciences research and director of the Office of BSSR, following the retirement of Dr. Bill Riley in December.

Tonia Awoniyi joined NIH as the new director of the Ethics Office.

NINDS mourns the loss of Dr. Ann-Marie Broome, a program director in its Division of Translational Research (DTR), who died Nov. 26 from pneumonia due to Covid-19.