Erin Boguski

Since 2017, Erin Boguski has worked with the Prevention and Health Promotion Administration as the Rape and Sexual Assault Prevention Program Coordinator. Erin works with partners throughout Maryland to establish statewide priorities, implement prevention initiatives, provide training and technical assistance, and track data. Erin focuses primarily on upstream, primary prevention initiatives that address community and societal-level risk and protective factors that impact sexual violence and related forms of violence. Erin leads a coalition-building initiative called RISEMD, which brings partners together for networking, state planning, and capacity-building.

The Rape and Sexual Assault Prevention Program (RSAPP) at the Maryland Department of Health is a program of the Center for Injury and Violence Prevention within the Environmental Health Bureau (EHB). EHB also includes Centers focused on food protection, epidemiology, and healthy homes and communities (captures lead, asthma, climate change, pools, and youth camps). The Bureau is one unit within the Prevention and Health Promotion Administration (PHPA) along with bureaus dedicated to infectious disease prevention and health services, infectious disease outbreak response, maternal and child health, and cancer and chronic disease. PHPA is under the Maryland Department of Health Deputy Secretary for Public Health Services.