About Us
The Office is under the direction of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs (DASPA), whose responsibilities include implementation of the mandated provisions of two categorical grant programs:
- The Family Planning program authorized under Title X of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA), and
- The Adolescent Family Life (AFL) program authorized under Title XX of the PHSA.
OPA Senior Staff
Evelyn Kappeler
Evelyn Kappeler is the Acting Director of the Office of Population Affairs (OPA). As a senior manager, she is responsible for the management and administrative operations of OPA and its component offices. She is also responsible for policy coordination and long-range planning, as well as program and budget oversight. Ms. Kappeler has more than twenty years of experience as a public health analyst at OPA. Prior to working at OPA, Ms. Kappeler served as a policy research associate in the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Before joining HHS, Ms. Kappeler worked as a legislative analyst in the Washington, D.C. Office of the Governor of the State of Illinois.
Susan Moskosky, M.S., R.N.C.
Susan Moskosky joined the Federal Government as a Regional Program Consultant (RPC) for Family Planning in DHHS Region VII, Kansas City, where she also served as the Region VII Women's Health Coordinator. Currently, Ms. Moskosky is the Director of the Office of Family Planning in the Office of Population Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and is responsible for administration as well as program and policy development for the national Title X Family Planning Program.
Ms. Moskosky is a certified Women's Health Nurse Practitioner who spent the first 15 years of her professional career providing family planning, prenatal, and other preventive health services and educating nurse practitioner students for the Title X Family Planning Program. She was the Director of one of the five original Title X-funded Women's Health Care Advanced Nurse Practitioner programs at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Texas.
Alicia Richmond Scott, MSW
Alicia Richmond Scott is the Acting Director for the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs (OAPP). Ms. Scott also serves as a Public Health Analyst with OAPP. She has worked in the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) for more than 10 years where she monitors AFL prevention and care demonstration grants. In addition to her project officer responsibilities, she provides policy and program development in areas such as teen pregnancy and reproductive health to the office and leads the annual grantee conferences and evaluation projects. Ms. Scott received her Masters degree in Social Work from Howard University in Washington, D.C.
