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Alexis Bakos, PhD (she/her/hers)

Program Director
National Institute on Aging

Alexis Bakos, PhD, MPH, RN, is a program director in the Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) where she oversees extramural research on palliative care and symptom science. This includes the impact on the quality of life of patients and their caregivers across the trajectory of serious illness from the time of diagnosis to the end of life. Before coming to NIA, she was a program director in the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute and served as Chief of the Diversity Training Branch within the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities. Prior to that, she was the Senior Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health as well as the Acting Director for the Division of Policy and Data within the Office of Minority Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services where she provided advice on programmatic, legislative, and research matters aimed at improving the health of minority populations and eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Dr. Bakos was named Deputy Director and then Acting Director of the Division of Nursing at the Health Resources and Services Administration and early in her career served as a Program Director at the National Institute of Nursing Research where she chaired the NIH-wide End of Life Scientific Interest Group. She received a BSN and an MSN from The Catholic University of America School of Nursing, an MPH from George Washington University, and a PhD in Nursing from Johns Hopkins University. Her education included postdoctoral training as a Cancer Prevention Fellow at the NCI. She also completed a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Fellowship at the U.S. House of Representatives and served as Congressman Edward Roybal’s Health Legislative Assistant on the House Select Committee on Aging.

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