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Judith Swan is a Public Health Advisor in the Surveillance Research Program (SRP) within the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS). Her work focuses on communication of programmatic activities in various formats to differing audiences. She also oversees several projects involving cancer surveillance among Native American populations.

Ms. Swan began her NIH career at the Clinical Center, having followed her B.S. degree from Duke University with training as a Medical Technologist. With experience gained in the NIH Clinical Microbiology Service, she moved on to a research laboratory in 1981, where she worked on a newly recognized disease syndrome for which the etiologic agent had not yet been isolated. The disease came to be known as AIDS, and Ms. Swan participated in some of the first studies of Pneumocystis carinii, an agent largely responsible for its tragic outcome. She co-authored several papers on new techniques for identifying the organism and preclinical drug sensitivity testing. After several years, Ms. Swan moved to a position with the Office of AIDS Research in the Office of the Director, NIH, to perform policy-related analysis. At the same time, she participated in a national management internship program supported by the Department of Health and Human Services.

In 1990, she began her career with NCI as Senior Program Analyst in the office of Dr. Edward Sondik in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, where she coordinated several Healthy People 2000 Progress Reviews and compiled progress reports for NCI activities related to minorities, the elderly, and the medically underserved. She also received a Masters in Health Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1995. She has authored a number of papers related to cancer among Native American populations and several book chapters on cancer registries.