Valerie Scardino, M.P.A.

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Director, Division of Outreach and Collaboration

Phone: (202) 205-0270
E-mail: Valerie.scardino@hhs.gov

Ms. Scardino is the Director of the Division of Outreach and Collaboration within the HHS Office on Women's Health (OWH). Ms. Scardino has 16 years of experience in health communications and project management, both within HHS and in the private sector.

In her current position, she directs the planning, monitoring, and evaluation of multi-year contracts. She develops communications strategies for OWH and implements national health campaigns. Ms. Scardino organizes press events, prepares press materials, and generates media coverage for these campaigns and events. Ms. Scardino oversees the writing, graphic design, production, and distribution of all print and web-based documents for the office. As OWH's liaison to the HHS Office of Public Affairs, Ms. Scardino is actively involved in obtaining approvals for developing and printing educational materials and for responding to media requests.

Prior to her current role, Ms. Scardino served as the Program Manager for NWHIC, which consists of two websites on women's and girls' health and a telephone information referral service. In that capacity, she managed the program's contract and budget. She oversaw all marketing activities, enhancements to the toll-free telephone service, periodic design updates to the web sites, selection of new materials, evaluation activities and program expenditures.

Ms. Scardino received her B.B.A. in Business/Marketing from the University of Massachusetts and her M.P.A. from Suffolk University in Boston, MA.

Content last updated June 26, 2008.