Susan Gallagher, M.P.H.

Susan Scavo Gallagher, M.P.H., is a Senior Scientist in the Division of Health and Human Development Programs at the Education Development Center (EDC) in Newton, Massachusetts. Ms. Gallagher received her Bachelor’s in Psychology at Simmons College and her Master’s in Public Health from Boston University. She also has appointments in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard University School of Public Health and in the Department of Socio-Behavioral Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health. Ms. Gallagher is a nationally recognized specialist in injury and violence prevention. Much of her work has focused on the epidemiology of child and adolescent injury, traffic safety, teen worker safety, injuries in the school environment, suicide, the development of surveillance systems methods, and community-based program evaluation. She has also played a central role in the development of standards for state-level injury prevention programs and assessment teams for the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors’ Association. At EDC she founded and directed the Children’s Safety Network National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource Center. Ms. Gallagher is a past chair of the American Public Health Association Injury Control Section and served on the National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine committee that produced the report Reducing the Burden of Injury. She recently coauthored a book entitled Injury Prevention and Public Health—Practical Knowledge, Skills and Strategies. She is a founding officer of the International Society of Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention and an Associate Editor of the journal Injury Prevention.