Cathy Slade is working with the Center for Nanotechnology and Society through a joint appointment at the University of Georgia Department of Public Administration and Policy. She studies issues related to the impacts of health science policy on health disparities, especially those issues related to emerging nanotechnology. She works as a project coordinator on CSPO's NSF SciSIP project "Public Value Mapping: Developing a Non-Economic Model of the Social Value of Science and Innovation Policy," directed by Daniel Sarewitz (ASU) and Barry Bozeman (University of Georgia). Slade also has an affiliation with the University of Georgia Department of Public Administration and Policy as a research scientist.

Slade's health disparities work has appeared in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice and the American Journal of Public Health. She has recent publication submissions concerning nanotechnology impacts on society and public value mapping to Scientometrics, The Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society Volume 3: Equity and Equality, and The Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society. Slade holds a doctorate in public policy, with a major in evaluation and policy analysis and an emphasis on health policy, from a joint program of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University. She received a master's degree in medical sociology from Emory University in Atlanta.

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University of Georgia Department of Public Administration and Policy