Elise Garton, M.Sc., joined the NCI in September 2020 as a Presidential Management Fellow and is now a Health Specialist in the Partnerships and Dissemination Branch at the Center for Global Health (CGH). In this role, Ms. Garton works to advance global cancer research and collaboration by providing analyses, evaluations, and tools to support evidence-based program design and dissemination efforts. Among other activities, she leads the global oncology survey of NCI-Designated Cancer Centers and portfolio analyses of NCI's international research. During her fellowship, she spent six months at the US Agency for International Development working on digital health and gender equity in global COVID-19 vaccination distribution.
Prior to joining NCI, Ms. Garton worked in electronic medical record implementation and sales in the U.S. and Middle East. She earned a B.A. in English and political science from the University of Notre Dame and an M.Sc. in global health from Vrjie Universiteit Amsterdam. She also completed research with the Netherlands Red Cross on predictive models for dengue and measles in the Philippines and conducted a longitudinal study of concierge medicine treatment outcomes in Turkey.