Dr. Kelley Brix oversees the coordination of research programs between the Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She has worked in DoD Health Affairs and the Defense Health Agency (DHA) since 2003. As Director, she provides oversight of the national DHA medical research portfolios, which includes more than $2.1 billion of medical research per year in the areas of: combat casualty care, traumatic brain injuries, psychological health, military operational medicine, medical simulation, infectious diseases, rehabilitation medicine, and the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs. She provides oversight and guidance on the planning, implementation, and evaluation of these portfolios.

Dr. Brix provides leadership on several interagency collaborations between DoD, VA, and NIH. She manages the DoD/VA Research Business Line, which provides direction on interagency research collaborations. She is the DoD Co-Chair of the DoD/VA Deployment Health Work Group, which focuses on interagency initiatives on occupational medicine, medical surveillance, and environmental surveillance related to deployments. Dr. Brix manages the ten-year National Research Action Plan on Mental Health (DoD, VA, and five Institutes of NIH), which was mandated by the White House. This is an interagency research blueprint to improve diagnosis and treatment of PTSD and traumatic brain injuries and to improve suicide prevention; and it includes hundreds of research projects. She provides leadership on three national programs: the STARRS (Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers) Longitudinal Study (DoD and NIH); the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD (DoD and VA); and the Long-term Impact of Military-relevant Brain Injury Consortium (LIMBIC) (DoD and VA).