Anna Hatch

Anna Hatch, PhD, is a Program Officer for Scientific Strategy at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). In this role, she leads initiatives to improve research integrity and accelerate discovery through innovations in academic publishing and researcher assessment. In the past year, she has led the development of a peer review training program at HHMI, called Transparent and Accountable Peer Review, where graduate students and postdocs learn to write constructive, collegial public peer review reports on preprints.  

 

She previously served as the Program Director for the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), where she worked with the academic community to advance practical and robust approaches to researcher assessment, including the use of structured narratives. DORA engages the community to raise awareness of new tools and processes, facilitate the implementation of good practices, and catalyze change. Before working with DORA, Anna was a science policy fellow at Research!America, a nonprofit advocacy alliance to increase public and policymaker awareness of the benefits of medical research. She received her PhD in Biochemistry from Dartmouth College where her research focused on mitochondrial dynamics. In 2021, Anna was awarded the Rada Distinguished Alumni Award from the from the University of Wisconsin—LaCrosse recognizing her contributions to improving research culture.