Senior Public Health Advisor
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Population Affairs
Emily R. Novick is a Senior Public Health Advisor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), Office of Population Affairs (OPA). In this role, she leads adolescent health policy development. This includes engaging federal and non-federal partners and allies in developing, disseminating, and implementing Take Action for Adolescents: A Call to Action for Adolescent Health and Well-Being; managing the National Adolescent Health Month annual observance; serving on federal interagency working groups; writing issue briefs and video scripts, and speeches; and briefing the Assistant Secretary for Health and other senior HHS leaders on adolescent health issues.
In her previous roles at OPA and the OASH Office of Adolescent Health she led health communications work, including managing the communications team and overseeing website and social media content, grantee communications, speechwriting, public affairs, and written and multimedia communications. She also managed the Adolescent Health: Think, Act, Grow (TAG) stakeholder engagement effort and spearheaded a reproductive health digital media campaign. Before joining OPA, Emily worked on three HHS media campaigns: “The Real Cost” teen smoking prevention media campaign and a tobacco retailer education campaign at the FDA Center for Tobacco Products and the “Talk: They Hear You” underage drinking prevention media campaign at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. She started her public health career as an HHS Presidential Management Intern. Ms. Novick has a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University and an MPP from the University of California, Berkeley, Goldman Graduate School of Public Policy. She is a certified television and video producer and director and a Contract Officer’s Representative (FAC-COR) Level III.