Taha A. Kass-Hout serves as FDA’s first Chief Health Informatics Officer, bringing more than 16 years experience in health, public health, and informatics. He has provided long and short-term strategic, operational, and tactical planning activities for the public and private sector. He’s credited with launching the first Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) program hosted completely in the Internet Cloud, in alignment with the White House Cloud Initiative. Taha holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, and a Master of Science from the University of Texas, School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics.