Executive Leadership and Expert Bios

Ann M. Dellinger, PhD, MPH

Branch Chief, Home, Recreation, and Transportation Branch

  Areas of Expertise

• Motor vehicle safety

Ann M. Dellinger, PhD, MPH, is an epidemiologist and the Branch Chief of the Home, Recreation, and Transportation Branch at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). Dr. Dellinger and her colleagues conduct studies in the area of motor vehicle safety focusing on older drivers, child occupant and pedestrian injury, global road safety and injury risk behavior.

Dr. Dellinger has served as an epidemiologist on CDC′s Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention Team since 1993. She began her career at CDC in the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). Among other EIS assignments, she served as a consultant to the state of Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles for the study of the risk of traffic crashes due to medical conditions.

Dr. Dellinger received her Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of San Diego. She received her Master of Public Health (health promotion) from the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego University and her doctorate in epidemiology from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Dr. Dellinger has authored and coauthored more than 50 publications. Among the several awards that she has won are three NCIPC Director′s Awards as well as Certificates of Commendation from Federal Executive Board for Outstanding Scientist, and Outstanding Team.