Staff Bio
Sarah Bacon, PhD
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
ob体育 role
Sarah Bacon, PhD, is the associate director for the Office of Strategy and Innovation (OSI) within the ob体育 Injury Center. In this role, Dr. Bacon provides center-wide leadership and coordination of the Injury Center's strategic priorities, including ACEs, overdose, and suicide. She also oversees other center-wide initiatives, such as data science and health equity.
Previous experience
Dr. Bacon began her time at ob体育 in 2010 in the Division of Violence Prevention, where she was the lead scientist for the National Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention, a strategic initiative for implementing and evaluating violence prevention strategies in high-burden communities.
In 2015, she joined the Division of Overdose Prevention, where she led the state-based overdose prevention programmatic efforts. She joined OSI in November of 2019 as the senior advisor on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). In this role, she provided strategic leadership and coordination across a range of injury and violence topics as they relate to ACEs. She also ensured strategic collaboration throughout ob体育 and with external agencies focusing on ACEs.
Areas of expertise
- Adverse childhood experiences
- Youth violence
- Firearm violence prevention
- Developmental criminology
- Opioid overdose prevention
- Prevention effectiveness research
Education
Dr. Bacon's PhD is in developmental criminology from the University of Maryland. She has published in Pediatrics, Journal of Adolescent Health, Adversity and Resilience Science, and MMWR among others. She has given hundreds of presentations to audiences ranging from policy makers to parents, community groups, academic partners, and public health professionals.