Cheryl Anne Boyce, Ph.D., FAPA, is the Assistant Director for Re-engineering the Research Enterprise, Office of Strategic Coordination – The Common Fund, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, DHHS.  Dr. Boyce joined the Office of Strategic Coordination in May 2021 to lead the Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity and Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) programs.  Previously, she was the Chief of the Implementation Science Branch within the Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science (CTRIS) at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).  Before joining NHLBI, she held scientific program and policy leadership positions at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NIH Immediate of the Director, and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.  Dr. Boyce completed doctoral studies in clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and fellowships at the Children’s National Medical Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine before she began her federal career as a Society for Research in Child Development/American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Executive Branch Policy Fellow over two decades ago.   She co-authored the successful e-book “How to Write a Successful Grant Application: A Guide for Social and Behavioral Scientists” (Pequegnat, Stover, & Boyce, 2011).  She is an American Psychological Association Fellow and licensed psychologist in DC and Maryland and serves as a Commissioner for the DC Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect.