Alixandra Nozzolillo is the Associate Director for Player Relations with the Football Players Health Study at Harvard University, where she is responsible for overseeing former NFL player engagement, participant enrollment and retention for the Study. She leads the team of community liaisons between former NFL players and the Study: building trust and rapport as well as fostering longitudinal participation in multiple research protocols looking at many aspects of former player health and wellness. In addition, she manages both the Former Player and Family Advisor boards.

Prior to this work, she provided program management to the Autism Speaks Autism Treatment Network and the Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she worked to improve care for children. Alix spent several years in public health policy towards establishing an evidence base for systems of care for children and youth with special healthcare needs, and also engaged in writing evidence reviews of nominated conditions for potential inclusion in the newborn screening recommended panel set forth by the Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children, chartered to reduce mortality and morbidity from heritable disorders in newborns and children.

Early in her career, Alix worked as a clinical research coordinator at Boston Children’s Hospital, and spent several years in the lab as a research technician for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and in the Department of Neuro-oncology at Seattle Children’s Hospital. She has published several papers in academic journals. Alix holds a B.A. in Communication with a minor in Chemistry from University of Washington, and an M.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Boston College.