Sharon L. Ricks, M.A.
Senior Public Health Advisor

Sharon L. Ricks is the Senior Public Health Advisor on Regional Women's Health and has lead responsibility for coordinating and developing a national women's health strategy and for implementing women's health activities at the regional, state and local levels. She serves as the primary advisor to the Division Director and the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's Health on a broad spectrum of related policy and program development issues affecting the ten HHS regions.

Prior to this, she served a Public Affairs Specialist in the Office managing the Pick Your Path to Health public awareness and education campaign and coordinating National Women's Health Week. She has also served as a technical writer/editor at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, a public affairs specialist at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders, and a technical publications writer at the National Institute on Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

Mrs. Ricks has published dozens of public health educational materials for HHS and has written articles for the NIH Record, the NIH Catalyst, Heart Memo, and North American Press Syndicate. She was managing editor for Healthbeat Radio Network and has written numerous press releases, radio news inserts, and television and radio public service announcements.

Before joining HHS in 1995, she worked for 10 years at the U.S. Agency for International Development where she was an information analyst in the Executive Secretariat, a regular contributor to Frontlines magazine, and a columnist for the State Department's State magazine.

Mrs. Ricks received her B.S. in Journalism from the University of Maryland University College in 1990 and her MA in Journalism from Regent University in 2004.

Updated: April 2004

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