National Occupational Injury Research Symposium (NOIRS)

Nancy Stout

Dr. Nancy Stout, Director of the Division of Safety Research, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
Dr. Stout joined NIOSH in 1985 and has held various scientific and managerial positions with the NIOSH Division of Safety Research, primarily conducting and directing surveillance and epidemiologic research of occupational injuries. She became Director of the division in 1998. She has bachelors and masters degrees in sociology and a doctorate in quantitative methods from West Virginia University, where she was also on the research faculty before joining NIOSH. She has published extensively on occupational injury research and prevention.