Executive Leadership & Expert Bios

Sandra P. Alexander, M. Ed.

Expert consultant, Division of Violence Prevention, NCIPC

Sandra P. Alexander, M. Ed., is a Subject Matter Expert in Child Maltreatment in the Division of Violence Prevention (DVP), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). She works on CDC child maltreatment prevention initiatives including leadership for DVP's Knowledge to Action Child Maltreatment Prevention Consortium and a cross-division Shaken Baby Prevention Initiative. She also represents the CDC on other national child maltreatment initiatives.

Ms. Alexander has 40 years experience in child abuse prevention including hands on Child Protective Service casework and supervision in South Carolina, prevention programming and advocacy and 18 years non profit management in child abuse prevention organizations. Previous positions include Executive Director of Prevent Child Abuse Georgia, founding board member and Executive Director of the Council on Child Abuse and Neglect (now Prevent Child Abuse South Carolina) and consultant for the National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren at Georgia State University. She is a past board president of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and former chair and current prevention advocate for the Fulton County (Atlanta) Child Fatality Review Committee.

She has developed numerous prevention programs including shaken baby prevention, provided training on prevention nationally and internationally, and served as a prevention voice for local and national media. Sandra authored the chapter on "Prevention" in Child Maltreatment – A Comprehensive Photographic Reference Identifying Potential Child Abuse published by G.W. Medical Publishing in 2005 and "Preventing Future Deaths Through Effective Prevention Recommendations and Actions", in Child Fatality Review, published by G.W. Medical Publishing in 2007. She is currently co-editing a book on Child Maltreatment Prevention.

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