Linda Degutis, Dr.PH., MSN
Associate Professor of Surgery (Emergency Medicine) and Public Health, Division of Environmental Health Sciences
Director of the newly established Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness. Research focuses on educational strategies in the area of disaster preparedness, as well as injury and violence prevention interventions.
Serves as Chair of the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and is an active member of the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section of APHA. Other activities include membership on the Healthy People 2010 Task Force of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine and the Board of Directors of the American Trauma Society. Served on the Steering Committee for the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Acute Care Research Agenda development, leading the workgroup on disaster preparedness. Co-chairs the workgroup on Community Preparedness and Response as part of the Core Team for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) agency-wide research agenda development process.
Research Director for the Section of Emergency Medicine and is Associate Clinical Professor of Nursing at Yale.
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