Christopher Steven Marcum, Ph.D. is a Senior Advisor for Federal Data Policy at the Federation of American Scientists where he brings expertise on information policy and data governance to the dataindex.us and essentialdata.us teams. He is a world leader in the open science movement and has written over 80 scholarly articles and thought pieces. He previously served in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as the Assistant Director for Open Science and Data Policy and as Senior Statistician and Senior Scientist in the White House Office of Management and Budget. Chris is also a Senior Fellow in the Center for Data Policy at the Data Foundation.
Federal data is a diverse ecosystem with well over 500,000 datasets – including those tackling Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD).
Coordination among federal science agencies is essential to ensure government-wide alignment on R&D investment priorities. However, the federal R&D enterprise suffers from egregious siloization.