Ericka Boone, Ph.D.

Director, National Institutes of Health

Ericka Boone, Ph.D., is the director of the NIH Division of Loan Repayment. In this role, Boone is responsible for administering and providing leadership for the NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) as well as representing NIH on matters related to the operations, policy development and evaluation of the LRPs. Prior to this position, Boone served as a health scientist administrator in the Office of Science Policy and Communications at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) where she developed and targeted science-based publications, outreach initiatives and other activities to educate a variety of audiences about the science of drug use, abuse and addiction. Boone’s academic background includes a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Talladega College and a doctorate in ciobehavioral health from The Pennsylvania State University.