MAUREEN DURKIN, Ph.D., Dr. P.H.

Dr. Maureen Durkin is an epidemiologist, an Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and Sergievsky Center, and a Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute’s Epidemiology of Brain Disorders Unit. Her research interests include the epidemiology and prevention of developmental disorders in children and of childhood injuries. Dr. Durkin has directed international, comparative studies of the prevalence and causes of neurodevelopmental disabilities including mental retardation, cerebral palsy and other motor disorders, blindness, deafness and seizure disorders. She is also Director of Research and Evaluation for the Injury Free Coalition for Kids, a national program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop community-based childhood injury prevention programs. Dr. Durkin has published widely on the epidemiology of childhood disabilities and injuries, teaches graduate-level courses, and has served as an advisor or consultant to national and international organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, the Institute of Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the United Nations Statistical Office.