Tracy is the Director of Research Translation and Communications for the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, the Executive Director of the Child Injury Prevention Alliance and is the co-creator of the Center for Injury Research Translation and Communication (CIRTC). In these roles, she helps take research out of the journal and into the public.
Her professional interests center on the effective communication of injury prevention messages and teaching others how to share their research with both scientific and non-scientific audiences. In addition, she often serves as an injury prevention expert for mainstream media appearing in print, online, and on-air on such outlets as The Today Show, USA Today, CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.
In her free time, she is pursuing a PhD in Public Health at The Ohio State University.
Find her on Twitter at:
@Tracy_Mehan of @CIRPatNCH and @CIRTC_