About
Beth Clay
Health policy leader, former congressional investigator, and advocate for health freedom and whole-person health.
Beth Clay is a certified nonprofit executive (CNE) who currently works in the nonprofit sector. Her career has moved between the offices of the National Institutes of Health and the committee rooms of the U.S. Congress, always around one question: how do patients and families get the information, and the access, they need to make their own health decisions?
At the NIH she served in administrative and committee management roles, beginning at the Fogarty International Center, the Office of Alternative Medicine, and the Office of Rare Diseases. She was recruited to the U.S. House of Representatives to lead a congressional inquiry into the role of complementary and alternative medicine in the American health-care system. As a senior professional staff member of the House Committee on Government Reform under Chairman Dan Burton, she led the committee’s health-care oversight team from 1998 through 2003.
Service on Capitol Hill
The oversight work she managed examined complementary and alternative medicine in government-funded health programs, the regulation of dietary supplements, vaccine injury compensation, vaccine safety and policy issues, the autism epidemic, mercury in medicine, ADHD medication overprescribing, and cancer. Each hearing and report is linked on the Congressional Hearings & Reports page.
- National Institutes of Health — administrative roles at the Fogarty International Center, the Office of Alternative Medicine, and the Office of Rare Diseases
- U.S. House of Representatives — Committee on Government Reform; senior professional staff member and health-care oversight team lead, 1998– 2003
- Business Development and Health Policy Consultant, 2003— 2019
- Certified Nonprofit Executive (CNE); currently leads an international trade association
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