Joseph L. Annest, PhD

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control/DARPI
4770 Buford Hwy NE
Mailstop F-64
Atlanta, GA
USA 30341

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Annest is Director, Office of Statistics and Programming, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC, Atlanta, GA. Dr. Annest has 31 years of federal public health service and has authored/coauthored over 135 scientific publications. Over the past two decades, he has been involved in numerous activities aimed at (1) developing national and international injury surveillance guidelines and standards, (2) improving external-cause-of-injury coding in state-based hospital discharge and emergency department data systems and their usefulness for injury surveillance, and (3) improving the availability of injury statistics for their use in priority setting, monitoring trends, and developing and evaluating injury prevention programs at the national, state and local levels. Most notably, Dr. Annest has provided federal leadership in establishing the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program (NEISS-AIP) that provides national estimates of nonfatal injuries treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments and in developing and maintaining the Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) (http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars) that provides national and state data on fatal and nonfatal injuries in the United States.

Papers:
3359.0 Annual exploration of injury and emergency health data issues