Wendy I. Slavit, MPH
Program Analyst, Center for Prevention and Health Services
Wendy Slavit is a Program Analyst with the Center for Prevention and Health Services. Wendy has responsibility for the Center's mental and behavioral health work. She also is involved with tobacco cessation and maternal & child health projects.
Prior to joining the Business Group, Wendy worked as a Project Coordinator at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. for the Diabetes Research Team. In this position, she served as a health educator for a program designed to promote regimen adherence for families of pre-adolescents with Type 1 diabetes. Additionally, she provided informal counseling to parents of young children to attend to the psychosocial issues of raising a very young child with diabetes. While pursuing her graduate degree, Wendy interned at Mental Health America where she composed materials for a national public education awareness campaign aimed at increasing parent child communication.
Wendy holds a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Psychology from Tufts University and a Master's degree in Public Health (MPH) from Emory University. She also is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES). Her professional interests include health psychology, mental health, substance abuse, health literacy, social marketing, nutrition, chronic disease prevention, maternal & child health, and racial and ethnic health disparities.
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