Brief Biography
Erica L. Spotts, Ph.D., is a health scientist administrator at OBSSR. She currently leads OBSSR’s co-funding efforts and short course initiative. Her NIH-wide activities include the Environmental Influences in Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program, HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study, Implementing a Maternal health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE) initiative, and the NIH Committee on Bioethics. She also supports other activities that integrate behavioral, social, and biomedical sciences. Erica previously served in the Division of Behavioral and Social Research at the National Institute on Aging. She obtained her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from The George Washington University and completed postdoctoral training in behavior genetics and epidemiology at the Karolinska Institutet.
