Katherine Vierk

Katherine Vierk is the Acting Office Director for the Office of Analytics and Outreach in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. As Acting Office Director, Ms. Vierk oversees three Divisions (Education and Outreach, Public Health Informatics and Analytics, Risk and Decision Analysis), the Food Defense and Emergency Coordination Staff, and the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Staff.

She brings more than 20 years of experience working at FDA in the areas of foodborne outbreaks, traceability, epidemiology, consumer science, and data analytics. Ms. Vierk has served in multiple leadership positions at CFSAN, served as acting FDA liaison to CDC, and was part of the team that developed FDA’s Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation Network (CORE). She currently leads FDA’s traceability rule writing efforts.