Cheryl Vince-Whitman, Ed.M
Cheryl Vince-Whitman, CSAP's
Northeast CAPT's senior advisor, is director of EDC's Health and Human
Development Programs (HHDP) and senior vice president of EDC. HHDP, with
a staff of 100 people, strives to promote healthy human development --
physical, social, emotional, and spiritual -- for people living in a variety
of conditions around the world. Working with a variety of systems -- education,
health care and public health, criminal justice, and community agencies
-- HHDP designs and evaluates ways to bring about change in policy, systems,
and practitioners' skills to affect the health of the people they serve.
Ms. Vince-Whitman is responsible for global strategic planning to develop
and expand EDC's programs in health promotion, disease and risk prevention,
and professional development of health care and criminal justice practitioners.
Ms. Vince-Whitman's substantive focus has been on strategies to prevent
and reduce AOD problems, HIV/STD, and violence and injury, as well as primary
prevention in health care settings. She is dedicated to the special health
issues of girls and women around the world.
In her role as director of HHDP, Ms. Vince-Whitman contributes to the
conceptualization of project work; serves as technical monitor on a number
of HHDP projects, establishes and maintains standards for quality control;
problem-solves with staff concerning resource allocation; and furthers
EDC's educational mission through presentations at professional meetings,
other public speaking, and writing. Ms. Vince-Whitman earned her Ed.M.
from Harvard University Graduate School of Education, her A.B. from Boston
University, and her Diploma in Education from McGill University.
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