Shoshana R. Shelton

Biography

Shoshana R. Shelton, MPH is a senior project associate at RAND. Her research portfolio includes projects that focus on performance measure development for public health systems, program evaluation, crisis decision-making, and national health security. Ms. Shelton has worked on numerous efforts for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including leading the development of the strategic objective on workforce and associated performance measures for the National Health Security Strategy and its Implementation Plan. She also worked closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop state and local performance measures for the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) Cooperative Agreement. She is a co-author on multiple peer-reviewed publications. Before joining RAND in 2007, Ms. Shelton spent three years as a Program Manager at the Office of Public Health Practice at The Ohio State University, where she studied public health workforce development. Ms. Shelton holds an M.P.H. in health behavior / disease prevention from The Ohio State University and a B.A. in English from Denison University. She is also a FEMA certified Master Exercise Practitioner (MEP), and has designed, implemented, and evaluated emergency preparedness exercises for public health agencies throughout the nation.