Just the NIJ Needs Assessment of Forensic Laboratories and Medical Examiner/Coroner Offices

Dr. Jonathan McGrath serves as a senior policy analyst with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) National Institute of Justice (NIJ) in the Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences located in Washington, D.C. He supports the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence program, the DOJ Needs Assessment of Forensic Laboratories and Medical Examiner and Coroner Offices, the NIJ Forensic Laboratory Needs Technology Working Group, and the NIJ Drug and Crime Program; he also serves as a vice co-chair for the Federal Medicolegal Death Investigation Working Group. Prior to joining NIJ in 2015, he served as a forensic scientist with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Laboratories and Scientific Services Directorate (CBP LSSD) in Houston, Texas, from 2007 to 2011. He worked at the CBP LSSD headquarters office in Washington, D.C., where he supported CBP’s trade, forensic, and weapons of mass destruction operations programs during 2011–2015. Dr. McGrath holds a doctoral degree in analytical chemistry from Georgia Tech, a master of science in forensic science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and bachelor of science in chemistry from the University of Dallas.