Slawa Rokicki is a doctoral student in Health Policy, in the Evaluative Sciences and Statistics Concentration. She holds a BS from the University of Maryland, College Park in mathematics and an MS in Global Health and Population from the Harvard School of Public Health. Slawa's research is focused on adolescent reproductive health. She won the Weiss Family Program Fund for Research in Development Economics in 2013 to conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluating a text message intervention to improve kNowledge and communication about reproductive health issues among female adolescents in Ghana's capital city, Accra.