Ele Ibarra-Pratt serves as the acting director of the Office of Compliance and Enforcement at FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP). As acting director of the Office of Compliance and Enforcement, Ms. Ibarra-Pratt is responsible for a wide range of compliance and enforcement efforts required for tobacco product regulation, including compliance education, surveillance, inspections, investigations, and enforcement activities to ensure compliance of the law by regulated industry.

Ms. Ibarra-Pratt has contributed to FDA’s public health mission for over 25 years. She joined OCE in 2010 to help lead the office and implement the new Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. She served as Division Director in OCE’s Division of Promotion, Advertising and Labeling for over 10 years. Prior to joining CTP, Ele served in leadership positions at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Advertising and Promotional Labeling Branch, the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising and Communications, and CDER’s Division of Scientific Investigations.

Ms. Ibarra-Pratt holds a Master of Public Health from San Diego State University in California and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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