Mrs. Sweta Ladwa serves as Chief, Scientific Solutions Delivery Branch at the IT and Applications Center (ITAC) at NHLBI where she leads data science solutions delivery and product development to help NIH’s mission of turning discovery into health. She provides data management- related vision and leadership for NHLBI’s cloud-based data science ecosystem, BioData Catalyst (BDC). Additionally, she serves as the Scientific Program Director for the BDC Data Management Core, as well as Program Scientist for the NIH RECOVER Data Resource Core and Co-Chair for the NIH Cloud Platform Interoperability (NCPI) Steering Committee. She supports several trans-NIH efforts, including the Common Fund SysBio program, the Women’s Health Initiative, Controlled Access Data Repositories Taskforce, and the NIH FHIR Working Group, among many others.
Mrs. Ladwa has served as a consultant to agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on complex programs, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), The National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) supporting various data management, interoperability, FHIR development and testing, standards development and implementation, and other efforts to support the HHS mission.
Mrs. Ladwa earned her master’s degree in Public Health, with a focus in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, from The George Washington University, and her bachelor’s degree in Biology and Chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University.