Hesha Duggirala PhD, MPH U.S. FDA

Hesha Duggirala, PhD, MPH is an epidemiologist at the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM). In CVM’s Office of Surveillance and Compliance, she provides epidemiologic support to various groups across CVM. She is also the CVM Artificial Intelligence policy lead, providing coordination of the Center’s AI efforts and representing CVM on FDA level initiatives. She is currently on special assignment to the Commissioner’s office to co-lead FDA’s internal generative AI development and deployment.