Biography
Dr. Cara Hamann is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Director of Training and Education for the Injury Prevention Research Center at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on unintentional injury prevention, with a concentration on transportation safety. Her work includes naturalistic studies, interventions, and linked analyses of transportation, justice, and medical data of high-risk and vulnerable road user groups and locations (rural areas, bicyclists, pedestrians, teen drivers, older drivers, child passenger restraint). She has a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Iowa and a Master’s in Public Health from the University of North Texas Health Science Center.