With a career spanning federal science policy, health technology, and national security, Jennifer Roberts brings a combination of technical depth and strategic vision to some of the most pressing challenges in public health and artificial intelligence. Jennifer served as Chief Data Officer and founding Director of the Resilient Systems Office at ARPA-H, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. In those roles, she shaped the agency’s system innovation strategy from the ground up and led efforts to build health platforms capable of withstanding large-scale disruptions — from biological threats to software failures — through resilience by design.
Prior to ARPA-H, Dr. Roberts served as the Assistant Director of Health Technologies at the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House and on the leadership team of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as the Deputy Director of the Information Innovation Office. For her contributions, Dr. Roberts received the DARPA Superior Public Service Medal. Dr. Roberts holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT, where she was a Hertz Fellow and National Science Foundation Fellow.
