Grants Management Branch

Barbara Gittleman has been a grants management officer at NIEHS since July 2009. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in political science, and received an M.A. in public policy and management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Prior to her grants management position, she held several other jobs in the Federal Government. Ms. Gittleman was a Presidential Management Intern at the Office of Management and Budget, where she worked on environmental issues involving pesticides and toxic substances, and she served as a program analyst at the Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, where her program responsibilities included the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs. Included in her grants management portfolio at NIEHS are research project grants, NRSA fellowship and training grants, career grants, and cooperative agreements.