Who We Are: SSDS and Its Staff

Ilyssa Hollander, B.A., M.P.H.

Ms. Hollander joined SSDS, Inc. in the summer of 2003 in the Natick research offices. She is involved primarily with alcohol and injury research projects. As a project manager, she offers planning, research and writing support and she coordinates and maintains Institutional Review Board and Human Subjects activity for TAIHOD projects. Ms. Hollander has also contributed to SSDS work on pharmaceuticals with her research on sociopolitical influences on drug approvals and on the controversies surrounding cross-border Internet pharmacies between the US and Canada.

Ms. Hollander received her M.P.H. from Boston University in January 2003 with a concentration in international health. Her coursework included reproductive health, pharmaceutical regulation, health communication, law and epidemiology. Her undergraduate degree was awarded in May 1999 from Washington University in St. Louis where she studied anthropology. Before joining SSDS, Inc., Ms. Hollander worked as a research assistant for a health outcomes research group at Boston University conducting and analyzing interviews for survey development. While receiving her M.P.H., she worked with local high school students to develop an anti-smoking documentary, incorporating advertising tactics with health promotion, and was also a part-time teacher and diagnostic testing coordinator for an after-school tutoring company. She worked for 2 years as a paralegal in a Washington, D.C. law firm performing legal research and litigation management. In 1999, she served as a media coordinator for a reproductive health and population stabilization non-profit organization where she wrote articles and editorials, and was the media liaison for the company.

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