Sloane Bickerstaff

Sloane Bickerstaff recently served as a Lead Facilitator for the Mosaic Beginnings team's work with the Missouri Breast Health Coalition. She was instrumental in ensuring that Coalition members understood their role in their organizations as well as their roles and abilities to contribute as members of the Coalition. To assist with this, she facilitated a segment where Coalition members completed assessments that identified their traditional workstyle/team member type and then assessed their post-pandemic workstyle and desired approach to the work.

Sloane has a background in project management specifically in the practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of her team to achieve specific goals at the specified time. Sloane brings a wealth of experience to the Mosaic Beginnings team because of her ability to leverage her federal and local government expertise in conjunction with her substantial experience leading and facilitating coalitions and conducting large scale evaluations, in addition to her experience creating and leading large-scale health communication social media campaigns. Sloane is a passionate public health professional with more than 10 years of experience in partner engagement, project management, relationship cultivation, social marketing, health communication, project management, infectious disease, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, behavioral science, health communication science, and quantitative and qualitative data collection and evaluation.

In her role in the Prevention Communication Branch as a Health Communication Specialist, she oversaw aspects of the Let’s Stop HIV Together campaign, including creative development, technical assistance to partners, and digital and social media strategies. In addition to serving as the Strategic Partnerships Lead in the Division of HIV Prevention at the CDC, a few of Sloane’s previous roles include serving as a Health Communication Specialist in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination and a Senior Health Communication Specialist with CDC Foundation-spearheading a national Youth Sexual Health Communication Campaign. She has presented to policy makers and at major conferences, including, but not limited to, the CDC and the Society of Adolescent Medicine. Sloane was also a consultant with John Snow, Inc and served as the Alabama Education Coordinator for Planned Parenthood Southeast. Sloane has also participated in the CDC John R. Lewis Undergraduate Public Health Scholars [formerly CDC Undergraduate Public Health Scholars (CUPS)] Program and the Dr. James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases (Ferguson) Fellowship.

Sloane is currently pursuing her Doctor of Public Health in Implementation Science from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Sloane holds a Master of Public Health with a focus on Behavioral Science from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Bachelor of Science in Public Health Promotion with a minor in Sociology from Purdue University.