Dr. Guidry Auvil is the Director of the Office of Data Sharing within the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). In this role, she oversees the NCI strategy and approach to development, interpretation and implementation of data sharing and public access policies to enhance NCI mission in the wider cancer research and care community. Dr. Guidry Auvil has led critical, high profile data sharing initiatives for NCI and NIH, including large-scale pediatric cancer research through Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments (TARGET) initiative, Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI), and the Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program.

Dr. Guidry Auvil is well-published and serves on several advisory committees within and across United States federal agencies, and international organizations, to provide expertise in optimizing data for cancer research. Dr. Guidry Auvil serves as a co-lead of the Data Use and Research Identity (DURI) workstream for the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH). Prior to joining NCI, Dr. Guidry Auvil held scientific research and regulatory positions with BBI Biotech, Inc., University of Maryland Medical School and the Veterans Administration focusing on healthcare biobanking for infectious disease and cancer, as well as research in mental health, addiction and post-traumatic stress. Dr. Guidry Auvil received her doctorate in Tumor Biology from Georgetown University, where she further holds a patent for a small molecule inhibitor targeting adhesion proteins in bone.