Alyse B. Sabina, MPH

Alyse B. Sabina, MPH, program officer for the Aetna Foundation, is responsible for managing a portfolio of national and strategic grants in the foundation's focus area of integrated health care.  Additionally, she is responsible for grant assessment.
 
Prior to joining the foundation in 2010, she was a program officer at the Missouri Foundation for Health in St. Louis, where she specialized in programs addressing  obesity prevention, mental health, substance abuse, women’s health issues, as well as nonprofit capacity building.  

Earlier in her career, she focused on research in chronic disease prevention and health promotion.  She was a senior research associate at the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, where she developed grant proposals and managed public health research studies, and previously worked on multiple health behavior studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She has coauthored a number of articles that have been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Preventive Medicine and Archives of Internal Medicine.

She earned her master's of public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her bachelor of arts at the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.