Deborah Haber

Deborah Haber is an EDC Vice President and the Director of HHD’s Center for School and Community Health Programs. With extensive experience managing national training and technical assistance centers, Ms. Haber is in charge of HHD’s National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention. She designs training programs for practitioners to implement evidence-based programs and provides technical assistance to local school communities, state agencies, and national organizations. She also develops seminars and creative materials on health issues, mental health, and violence prevention for youth. Ms. Haber has worked with Dr. Ron Slaby to train school, community, and law enforcement practitioners to use HHD’s nationally recognized violence prevention curriculum, Aggressors, Victims, and Bystanders.

Ms. Haber brings 15 years experience leading national training and technical assistance centers. As director of the National Training Partnership, funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), she designed and delivered technical assistance services to every state department of education in the country and 18 of the largest urban districts in an effort to strengthen their capacity to implement CDC’s “Programs that Work,” one of the first initiatives to translate research into practice. As director of curriculum development and training, and technical assistance for the Reach for Health project, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Ms. Haber worked with multiple stakeholders to adapt and implement a research-based health risk behavior curriculum to meet the needs of 3,600 students in three Brooklyn middle schools.

Ms. Haber holds an M.Ed. in Health from Boston University and a B.A. from the University of Rhode Island.