July 2016 Speakers

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Susan Hardman

Team Lead, Public Health Associate Program, Training and Education Team, Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support, CDC

Susan Hardman is the Public Health Associate Program’s team lead for Training and Education in the Office for State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Support. Prior to joining CDC in May 2011, she was director of the New York State Department of Health’s Bureau of Injury Prevention where she was responsible for the assessment of the need for injury and violence programs by establishing program goals, developing, implementing, and evaluating evidence-informed programs to meet department of health goals and evaluate program efficiency.

Hardman has a master teacher certificate from Morgan State University and a bachelor of science degree from the University of Maryland.

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Erin K. Sauber-Schatz, PhD, MPH

Team Lead, Transportation Safety Team, Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC

Erin Sauber-Schatz, PhD, MPH, serves as the team lead of the Transportation Safety Team in the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention. She is responsible for overseeing all of CDC’s transportation safety activities, which includes motor vehicle injury prevention, a CDC Winnable Battle. The Transportation Safety Team’s focus areas include seat belt use, child passenger safety, safe teen driving, alcohol-impaired driving, tribal motor vehicle injury prevention, and older adult mobility.

Dr. Sauber-Schatz began her career at CDC in the Epidemic Intelligence Service working at the Florida Department of Health with a focus in maternal and child health. She has served as an epidemiologist on the Transportation Safety Team with subject matter expertise in child passenger safety and safe teen driving, including the Parents Are the Key campaign—CDC’s national campaign to increase awareness among parents to keep teen drivers safer.

She is a Commander in the United States Public Health Service and received her doctorate in epidemiology and a certificate in public health preparedness and disaster response from the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health. She has a master of public health degree in epidemiology from the Texas A&M School of Rural Public Health and a bachelor’s degree in biology with a minor in French from Texas A&M University.

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Lindsey Myers, MPH

Director, Injury and Substance Abuse Prevention
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Lindsey Myers, MPH, directs the Injury and Substance Abuse Prevention Section at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). In this role, she provides oversight of state and federally funded programs for the prevention of death and disability in Colorado due to unintentional and intentional injuries, including prescription drug overdose, suicide, motor vehicle safety, older adult falls, and child maltreatment. Myers has more than 14 years of experience in developing, implementing, and evaluating data-informed prevention programs and policies at the state and local levels. Currently, she oversees Colorado’s Core Violence and Injury Prevention Program, the Child Fatality the Colorado Child Fatality Prevention System, and the Retail Marijuana Education Program. Prior to working at CDPHE, she was the director of Community Health at the El Paso County Public Health.

Myers has a master’s degree in public health with a concentration in epidemiology from Yale University, and she has bachelor degrees in biochemistry and English from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Leah Shahum

Founder and Director, Vision Zero Network

Leah Shahum is the founder and director of the Vision Zero Network, a national campaign supporting cities working toward Vision Zero—zero traffic fatalities and severe injuries. The Network, which is funded in part by Kaiser Permanente, helps communities develop and share best practices for safe mobility for all road users.

As a German Marshall Fund Fellow, Shahum researched Vision Zero strategies in Sweden, Germany, and the Netherlands. Prior to that, she served as the Executive Director of the 10,000-member San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, which promotes bicycling for everyday transportation. She formerly served on the boards of directors of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway & Transportation District, and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.