Dr. Mielenz is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. As a behavioral consequential epidemiologist, her research focuses on: 1) clinical and community linkages, 2) optimizing interventions, 3) driving mobility and 4) outcomes instruments. She is a Co-PI for the New York site of the Longitudinal Research on Older Adult Drivers study. She co-directs the Education Core of Columbia’s CDC CCISP Injury Center. In addition, she is the Director of episummer@columbia, the summer institute in the Department of Epidemiology. Dr. Mielenz is the Training Co-Director, along with Ms. Leann Kendall, Department of Psychology, University of Guyana (UG) of the Guyana Research in Injury and Trauma Training (GRITT) Program.