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Sue Binder, M.D.
Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Sue Binder, M.D., leads a team of professionals at CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control whose aim is to understand and prevent unintentional and violent injuries — the leading killer of Americans in the first four decades of life.
Professional Background
Dr. Binder was appointed director of the Injury Center in December 2000. A commissioned officer in the United States Public Health Service, she joined CDC in 1984 as an officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service — the disease detectives. In her nearly two decades with CDC, Dr. Binder has applied her medical and public health training in the fields of lead abatement, parasitic disease, toxic waste, and industrial and natural disasters. As chief of CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention branch, Dr. Binder led a nine-fold expansion of the program over four years, resulting in annual screening of more than 1.5 million children for lead exposure and identification of 360,000 children for additional medical and environmental follow-up. Before being appointed to head the Injury Center, she was associate director for medical science in the Division of Parasitic Disease, National Center for Infectious Diseases. In this capacity Dr. Binder spearheaded development of CDC's strategic approach to countering emerging infectious diseases. Her work laid the foundation for a $30 million budget increase for this public health program.
Dr. Binder earned the bachelor of science degree from McGill University and the doctor of medicine degree from Tufts University Medical School. She is board-certified in internal medicine and continues to see patients at the travel medicine clinic affiliated with the Emory University medical complex in Atlanta.
Dr. Binder has published extensively in the fields of environmental health and infectious diseases. She is the recipient of numerous professional honors, including the Arthur S. Flemming Award for excellence in management as well as several awards from the U.S. Public Health Service.
Public Health Philosophy
A proponent of the public health approach that begins with quantifying a problem and continues by identifying risk and protective factors, developing and testing solutions and, finally, implementing public health programs that achieve widespread adoption, Dr. Binder has established research and state public health programs as the cornerstones of CDC's injury work.
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