Shelley Saitowitz, M.P.H., is a Community Health Program Specialist (since 2007) with the County of San Diego, Health & Human Services Agency (HHSA)—Chronic Disease and Health Equity Unit.  At the County, she supports work on a wide range of topics including chronic disease and health equity, food systems, climate change, and public health impacts of land use and regional transportation decisions. Shelley is part of the HHSA team, who administered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Grants including Communities Putting Prevention to Work and Community Transformation Grant, and is now administering the recently awarded State and Local Public Health Actions to Prevent Obesity, Diabetes, Heart Disease and Stroke. Shelley received her Masters of Public Health in Health Services, Management and Policy from the University of California at Los Angeles.