David Sleet – U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States
CIPA Injury
David Sleet, PhD, spent 20 years at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He was the Associate Director for Science for the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention. He served as the senior advisor to the Division on matters of science and policy, including research on motor vehicle injuries, home and recreation injuries, and child injuries. He has published more than 175 articles and co-edited the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention and the Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention. Some of his most important work includes the National Action Plan for Child Injury Prevention and a series of systematic reviews documenting evidence-based strategies to prevent traffic injuries, including research that led to the .05% blood alcohol standard in Australia and the .08% BAC standard in the US. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Health Behavior.