Alicia Samuels

Alicia Samuels, MPH, currently serves as the Associate Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs at The Rockefeller University, a role undertaken since January 2024. Prior experience includes serving as the Senior Director of Strategic Communications at Columbia University Irving Medical Center from July 2019 to January 2024, and as the Director of Communications at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from January 2008 to July 2019. Earlier positions include Account Supervisor at GCI Health and Manager of Medical and Scientific Communication as well as Manager of Surveillance Information Systems at the American Cancer Society. Alicia Samuels earned a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from Emory University and a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in Health and Society and Psychology from the University of Rochester.