Kara Hall PhD

Kara L. Hall, Ph.D., is a Health Scientist, the Director of the Science of Team Science (SciTS) Team, and Director of the Theories Initiative in the Health Behaviors Research Branch (HBRB) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). During her career, Dr. Hall has participated in a variety of interdisciplinary clinical and research endeavors. Notably, Dr. Hall helped launch the SciTS field by co-chairing the 2006 conference The Science of Team Science: Assessing the Value of Transdisciplinary Research and co-editing the 2008 American Journal of Preventive Medicine Special Supplement on SciTS, recently identified as the most cited and downloaded AJPM supplement.

Dr. Hall provides continued leadership for the SciTS field through roles such as planning committee members and contributors to the Annual International Science of Team Science (2010-17). She served as Program Chair (2013), Conference Chair (2014-16), and Co-Chair (2017). Dr. Hall also has served as a member of The National Academies Committee on the Science of Team Science (2012-15). The resulting report, Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science, was the third most downloaded National Academies Press report in 2015. Dr. Hall also served as co-chair for a Trans-Agency Subcommittee on Collaboration and Team Science of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program in the National Science and Technology Council in the Executive Office of the President (2011-16).