Brittny Davis Lynn, Ph.D., M.P.H.

As Associate Director for Scientific Management and Dissemination within the DCEG Office of the Director (OD), Dr. Brittny Davis Lynn oversees the scientific review processes and directs all aspects of internal communications. She also oversees scientific knowledge dissemination through the Communications Team and manages requests for information on DCEG scientific and administrative activities, including high-profile scientific issues and Freedom of Information Act requests, among other activities.

Dr. Davis Lynn received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and completed her M.P.H. in epidemiology and biostatistics at the John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She was selected for a postdoctoral fellowship in the NCI Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program in 2015, joined DCEG as a postdoctoral fellow in 2016, and was promoted to research fellow in 2019. That same year, she was accepted into the inaugural class of the highly competitive NIH Independent Research Scholar Program. In 2020, Dr. Davis Lynn joined the Food and Drug Administration and was soon promoted to Supervisory Epidemiologist at the Center for Tobacco Products. She re-joined DCEG in April 2023.