Dr. Degutis, a native of Chicago, received her Bachelor of Science degree from DePaul University, and her MSN and DrPH from Yale University. She is currently Executive Director of Defense Health Horizons, a program of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, that is based at the Uniformed Services University. In addition, she is the Chief Science Officer for The Avielle Foundation, and is a consultant in violence and injury prevention. Currently, she serves on the Board of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, and the Advisory Board of the College of Science and Health of DePaul University. Prior to this, she was the Director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the CDC. At Yale, she was Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Public Health and was the Director and Co-PI of the Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness, which designed and implemented education in disaster preparedness, response and recovery. She served as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in the Office of the late Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN). She is a Past President of the American Public Health Association (APHA), the oldest and largest public health association in the world. Dr. Degutis, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, has received the Distinguished Career and Public Service Awards from the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section of APHA, and was named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. Her work has focused on public health, injury and violence, substance abuse and policy, as well as disaster preparedness and mitigation.
