Susan DeFrancesco, JD, MPH, MAT is an Associate Scientist working on the Injury Prevention Project at the Prevention Research Center. Under a PRC contract with the NM Department of Health, she provides technical assistance and injury prevention resources to the Office of Injury Prevention staff at the DOH. Before joining the PRC she served on the faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD. Susan’s work at Hopkins included research and practice related to childhood injury prevention, the development and implementation of injury prevention laws and policies, and the role of health professionals and community activists in health advocacy. She also co-taught a course entitled Issues in Health Advocacy and served as primary instructor for the Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy. Earlier in her career, Susan served as Executive Director of Injury Prevention Works, a nationwide clearinghouse for playground safety information. As Executive Director, Susan spearheaded a successful campaign to get playground safety legislation passed in Pittsburgh, PA . She has also worked as an injury prevention consultant to the Baltimore County Health Department in Baltimore, MD and the Allegheny County Health Department in Pittsburgh, PA. and as a researcher and writer for Public Citizen in Washington, D.C. and The Trauma Foundation in San Francisco, CA. Susan earned her law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law, her Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her Master of Arts in Teaching from the Johns Hopkins School of Education.