APA’s Chief Communications and Membership Officer
Alicia C. Aebersold is APA’s first chief communications officer. She also serves as the organization’s membership officer. She joined APA in September 2017.
Aebersold comes to the organization from the National Council for Behavioral Health, where she served as that organization’s first senior vice president of communications and strategic development, working to elevate awareness of the National Council’s mission and vision to a broader audience, as well as overseeing all communications for Mental Health First Aidopens in new window.
Aebersold previously directed communications for the National Program Office of Aligning Forces for Quality, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s signature effort to lift the overall quality of health care in targeted communities, reduce racial and ethnic disparities and provide models for national reform. The $300 million commitment to improve health care in communities that together cover 12.5% of the U.S. population is the largest effort of its kind ever undertaken by a U.S. philanthropy. She also headed up communications for the National Quality Forum, the Treatment Advocacy Center, Children’s Express and the National Governors Association.