Gisela Rots, a public health expert and highly skilled trainer, leads programs that improve health outcomes through the use of effective health and behavioral health promotion strategies. She specializes in substance misuse prevention, youth risk prevention, and building resilience. For over 15 years, she has managed award-winning training programs, designed successful social marketing campaigns, advised state agencies and community coalitions, and developed cross-sector partnerships to improve services.

Rots translates research into practice to address hurdles to the implementation of effective substance misuse prevention programs. She is the director of the Strategic Prevention Technical Assistance Center, the former director of the Center for Strategic Prevention Support, and consults for Prevention Solutions.

Rots holds an MS from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Political Science-International Relations from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a Certified Prevention Specialist.