Dr. Carol Dahl, Director of Staff for the Global Health Program, works as a deputy to the President, Global Health, to facilitate progress and performance against Global Health’s priorities. She also serves as a liaison for the Program team in the fields of science and technology . In addition, she partners with the Global Health Strategy team in shaping the foundation’s overall global health strategies. Dahl was previously Director, Global Health Discovery.
Prior to joining the foundation in 2003, Dahl served as vice president for Strategic Partnerships at Biospect Inc. (now Pathworks Diagnostics). From 1990 to 2001, Dahl worked at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in several capacities, including founding director of the Office of Technology and Industrial Relations at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Program Director at the National Center for Human Genome Research.
While at the NIH, Dahl supported the development of the biotechnology portfolio of the Advanced Technology Program of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and partnerships with NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Throughout her tenure in government, Dahl received numerous awards for her work stimulating innovative technologies, including DNA sequencing technology, bioengineering, bioimaging, and nanotechnology, and contributing to the launch of critical genomics resources, such as the Tumor Gene Index.
Dahl received a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received postdoctoral training at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and the Immunobiology Research Center at the University of Minnesota and served on the faculty of the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and University of Pittsburgh.