Crashes, Overdoses, Self-Harm, Workplace Injuries: How are These Injuries Tied together? Injury Prevention as a Field of Study and as a Career Path for Public Health Students
Featuring Allison Arwady, MD, MPH, Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
About Dr. Arwady
As Director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Dr. Arwady leads the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s research and science-based programs to prevent injuries and violence and to reduce their consequences.
Dr. Arwady previously served as the commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, leading the health department of the nation’s third-largest city, including through the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to that, she spent four years as Chicago’s chief medical officer, overseeing the department’s behavioral health and disease control work.
Under her leadership, Chicago’s behavioral health team established dozens of innovative programs and partnerships in substance use and violence prevention, as well as mental health promotion and linkage to care. For the first time, Chicago embedded mental health professionals into 911 response; coordinated and funded a citywide network of no-barrier mental health clinical providers; and launched new behavioral health supports in homeless shelters, libraries, schools, food pantries, clinics, and more.
Earlier in her career, as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer based at the Illinois Department of Public Health, she responded to disease outbreaks across the state as well as CDC responses in Saudi Arabia (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) and Liberia (Ebola).
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