Alexandra Slessarev

Alexandra Slessarev graduated from Harvard’s joint JD/MPH program in 2019, and she will be clerking for Judge Ronald Lee Gilman on the 6th Circuit beginning in August 2019. Her Petrie-Flom fellowship paper was entitled “Curbing Pharmaceutical Detailing Practices in the Opioid Era.” Alex’s public health research interests include maternal and reproductive health, state-level Medicaid implementation, and the intersection of health and the environment. Prior to starting her dual-degree program, Alexandra spent a year working as a research assistant at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco, where she worked on several projects related to long-acting reversible contraception provision and education.