Sharon Elizabeth Boyd *12

Sharon died of cancer in Washington, D.C., Nov. 1, 2025, not long after her 40th birthday.

She was born Oct. 11, 1985, in Athens, Ohio. Prior to earning her MPA at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs in 2012, Sharon graduated from Brandeis with a BA in economics in 2008 and served as a staff economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, working on health and labor policy under President Obama. At SPIA she specialized in domestic politics and health policy. Sharon worked with professor Heather Howard on implementation of the Affordable Care Act and traveled to Kolkata, India, to study health policy interventions.

Having been awarded a Presidential Management Fellowship, Sharon served at the Centers for Disease Control as the Washington policy lead and congressional liaison. At the CDC she led the Washington team responding to the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak and was deployed to Liberia twice. In recognition of her contributions, Sharon received the CDC Distinguished Service in Public Health Policy Award.

Her last professional position was chief of staff for the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences.

Sharon is survived by her husband, Joseph Price; son Quentin; her parents, Sara and Roy; and her sister, Karla.

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