Title: Anbesaw W. Selassie, MPH, DrPH: Governing Council

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Section/SPIG: Epidemiology

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Anbesaw W. Selassie, DrPH, is associate professor of epidemiology at the Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology. He has extensive experience in field epidemiology and public health practice. Prior to coming to the United States, Selassie served as a public health officer in various health care institutions in Ethiopia including working with the World Health Organization Smallpox Eradication and UNICEF Child Survival programs. In addition to his faculty role, he serves in various state and national organizations in different capacities that include board membership for the South Carolina Safe Kids Coalition, Professional Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Foundation of America, and the South Carolina Governor’s Developmental Disability Council. He also served as chair of the Surveillance Workgroup for the CDC Task Force on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the U.S. Selassie is the principal investigator of three large federally funded programs that assess health outcomes of brain trauma, epilepsy and spinal cord injury.