I was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts - the oldest fishing village in the United States. I hail from a large Sicilian family on my Dad’s side and a relatively smaller, English, Irish, & French-Canadian family on my Mom’s side. I am easy related to a significant portion of the town through blood or marriage. I grew up in Manchester, NH – the Queen City of the Granite State. Manchester is affectionately referred to as Manchvegas: The City of Lights - although most lights are out by 1am. I currently reside in Atlanta, Georgia where I work for the federal government. I am blessed with two great parents, an amazing sister, three phenomenal nieces, and the best network of friends and family a guy could ever ask for in a lifetime.
Sal Lucido is a 15-year employee of the CDC where he works as a Senior Policy Analyst within the CDC’s Office of the Director. In this capacity, Sal is responsible for managing the policy formulation and implementation process at CDC for a variety of critical public health issues including: environmental health, occupational safety and healthy, injury prevention, and terrorism preparedness/emergency response. As part of this process, he is responsible for developing and analyzing policy documents on behalf the CDC Senior Management Team including issues papers, program reviews, and Congressional testimony. He is also responsible for managing the policy briefing process for CDC’s Senior Management Team and insuring that the senior managers at CDC understand all the implications associated with the various public health policy decisions under consideration and the potential impact these decisions could have on CDC and its programs.
Prior to this role, he served as the CDC Privacy Rule Coordinator, where he was charged with preparing CDC and CDC partners for implementation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. His activities included: developing an intranet site; organizing and chairing a CDC working group on the privacy rule; developing a privacy rule speakers forum; developing a draft privacy rule at-a-glance; providing technical assistance to state health departments on an ad hoc basis; and providing privacy rule presentations to CDC programs, state and local partners, and public health conferences. He also worked on a number of privacy rule publications including a public health practitioner’s guide to the privacy rule that was published as an MMWR article.
Sal initially served as a legislative analyst with the CDC National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, where he was primarily responsible for managing legislative authorities. In this role, he worked collaboratively with both departmental partners, private partners, and non-profit partners to maintain and expand and programmatic authority on a variety of issues including cancer screening, obesity, cardiovascular screening, infant health, and aging. In this capacity, he developed legislative proposals for DHHS, coordinated the provision of expert advice and counsel to partners and Hill staff on legislative language, and coordinated program and senior leadership’s participation in the Congressional hearings and briefings. He was also responsible for tracking and analyzing any piece of legislation introduced in Congress that could potentially impact center-wide programs.
In addition to his professional experience, Sal has taken an active role in civic activities. As a member of the Atlanta Junior Chamber, Sal served in a variety of elected offices including serving as the organization’s 76th President in 1994 - 1995.
He served as the Georgia Jaycee Metro Vice President in 1995-96 coordinating training for large chapters in the state of Georgia and leading the effort to re-extend the LaGrange Jaycees. During the 1996 - 1997, he was recognized as the Outstanding Senator during the Georgia Jaycee Model Legislature and was inducted into the Georgia Jaycee Rebel Corps as Rebel Corps Colonel #2299. In 1997-98, he served as a Regional Director with the Georgia Jaycees. Under his leadership, Region 5 was the top growth region in the Georgia Jaycees finishing at +91 with two extensions. As a result of this effort, Sal was recognized with the Doug Blankenship Memorial Award as the top regional Director in the Georgia Jaycees. In 1998, he served as a Chairman of the Georgia Jaycee Foundation and as an appointed member of the US Junior Chamber Training Task Force. As a trainer, Sal is recognized as a Junior Chamber International Certified National Trainer.
I have always been interested in writing and history so getting involved in something like this meshes well with my personal interests. I suspect it could be an obsession for me if I were to allow that to happen so I am trying to keep my activities to a minimum. I am a proud member of the Atlanta Jaycees and the Jaycee movement generally. I think it is important to document the history of this organization and that will likely be my wikifocus for now.
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