Sarah Zelazny (she/her) is a policy analyst at RAND. Her background includes: patient experience; community-level and clinical-level injury and violence prevention program development, implementation, and evaluation; gender-based violence research; harm reduction; trauma-informed care and education; working with underserved populations; health communication; and healthcare quality. Zelazny specializes in qualitative data collection, analysis, and reporting; community-based participatory methods; and literature reviews.
Prior to joining RAND, Zelazny was the trauma prevention coordinator at a Level I Trauma Center, where she oversaw and implemented community injury and violence prevention program planning and outreach, providing services throughout Western Pennsylvania. Before serving in her community-based role, she was a research coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh where she managed projects focused on gender-based violence, reproductive coercion, and social masculinity norms. Zelazny completed her M.P.H. in behavioral and community health sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. Prior to earning her M.P.H., she taught English as a second language in Zhejiang Province, China after receiving her B.A. in sociology from Clarion University of Pennsylvania.
B.A. in sociology, Clarion University of Penn; M.P.H. in behavioral and community health sciences, University of Pittsburgh
