[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 39 (Thursday, April 11, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S2574]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            RECOGNITION OF DR. KATHY HUDSON'S SERVICE TO NIH

  Mr. KENNEDY. Madam President, I would like to take a moment to 
recognize the exemplary work of Dr. Kathy Hudson, who after 10 years is 
leaving government service. For the last 7 years Dr. Hudson has served 
with distinction as the Director of the Office of Policy, Planning and 
Communications and the Assistant Director of the National Human Genome 
Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health. While at the 
Institute, she has been responsible for communications, government 
relations, program planning, and education activities.
  Dr. Hudson has provided focus and leadership in numerous areas for 
the Institute. She has played a particularly important leadership role 
in public policy and public affairs for the Human Genome Project, the 
international effort to decipher the human genetic code and apply the 
results to improving human health.
  She has led efforts to identify barriers such as genetic 
discrimination that could impede the fair and equitable application of 
genetic information to public health and has led development of 
policies to protect privacy and prevent genetic discrimination. In his 
regard, she was instrumental in the development of an Executive Order 
signed in February 2000 that banned discrimination in Federal 
employment based on genetic information. She has also provided 
exceptional technical advice to my staff and many others in drafting 
legislation on genetic nondiscrimination. I look forward to seeing that 
important legislation enacted soon.
  Dr. Hudson received her B.A. in biology at Carleton College in 
Minnesota; her Masters in microbiology from the University of Chicago; 
and the Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of California, 
Berkeley. Before joining the NIH, Dr. Hudson was a senior policy 
analyst in the office of the Assistant Secretary for Health at the 
Department of Health and Human Services. She advised the assistant 
secretary on national health and science policy issues involving NIH. 
Prior to that, Dr. Hudson worked in the Congressional Office of 
Technology Assessment as a congressional science fellow.
  Through her signal contributions to social policy and to the Nation's 
health, Dr. Hudson's work has exemplified the best of government 
service and the difference in our Nation's well being that a dedicated 
scientist can make. I wish Dr. Hudson all the best in her new venture 
as the Director of the Genetics and Public Policy Center at the Johns 
Hopkins University, and on behalf of the Congress and the country, 
thank her for her outstanding government service.

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