Dr. Iman Martin is a senior advisor in NIMHD’s Division of Integrative Biological and Behavioral Sciences. In this role, she serves as a program director, providing programmatic oversight to various grants, in addition to supporting the division’s strategic planning and organizational management efforts.

She is dedicated to enabling innovative research to improve health for all. Her expertise and scientific leadership are leveraged by various NIMHD programs focused on supporting integrative research spanning epidemiology, biopsychosocial determinants of health, environmental exposures, clinical-translational sciences, multiomics (e.g. genomics, exposomics, epigenomics, proteomics, microbiomics, transcriptome, epigenome, and metabolome), quantitative methods, qualitative approaches, implementation science, and community-driven initiatives.

Prior to NIMHD, Dr. Martin was stationed within NIH’s Office of the Director, the National Human Genome Research Institute, the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, and the National Cancer Institute. Her experience as a program director includes administrative oversight and extramural support of cancer clinical trials; and extramural support of cancer clinical trials; research contracts dedicated to global and domestic transfusion medicine research capacity and blood safety; large-scale multinational omics innovation collaborations; workforce development and training awards, and domestic research in early environmental exposures on child health and development.

Dr. Martin is also a commander in the U.S. Public Health Service. Her previous federal professional experiences include serving as the Military Health System Population Health Program Lead, Chief of Preventative Medicine and Population Health for the U.S Coast Guard, and as a surveillance epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Epidemic Intelligence Service and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of Enterprise Data & Analytics.

She has a Ph.D. in public health epidemiology and biostatistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as a graduate certificate in molecular biology (New England BioLabs), a M.Sc. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an M.P.H. from the University of Ghana. Her post-doctoral training focused on global health, research capacity building and integrative (genetics, psychometric assessment, neuroimaging, and socio-contextual factors) research in neuropsychiatry. Dr. Martin has numerous peer-reviewed publications and honors for her global and domestic research in emerging infections, HIV, and various non-communicable diseases, including cancer, sickle cell, and cardiovascular disease.