Keshia Pollack, PhD, MPH, the Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, is committed to redefining injury as a public health problem and promoting it as a scientific discipline through high-quality research, advocacy and education.
She is a leading expert in injury prevention and control, built environment, physical activity, and obesity prevention. She is available for interviews on:
+ The importance of walking as a form of exercise for children, already susceptible to the epidemic of obesity;+ Maryland’s unfortunate overrepresentation of children in pedestrian injury data;+ Recommendations to improve sharing of the road by both pedestrians and drivers.
Pollack has extensive media experience including interviews with The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun and WMAR-TV (Baltimore).
Media Contact:Eric Schulman, MPSCenter for Injury Research and PolicyJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health(443) 287-2947 | [email protected]