Improving Surveillance of Non-fatal Recreational Boating Occupant Injuries: Bringing Boating and Public Health Together
This session provided an overview of The Recreational Boat Occupant Injury Surveillance Project, a collaboration between the United States Coast Guard, the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators and Safe States Alliance. Participants will learn how working with public health experts in their local jurisdictions can improve the surveillance of recreational boating injuries as well as expand the scope and outcomes of boating education and injury prevention programs. Tangible ideas for how to initiate and expand collaborations with public health experts at the local level will be shared.

Amy Schlotthauer
President & Owner
AES Consulting Firm
Amy Schlotthauer is President and Owner of AES Consulting Firm, has a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Amy has over seventeen years experience in project management, grant writing, program evaluation, qualitative and quantitative research methods and data analysis, group facilitation and consensus building, and using these skills to help clients work collaboratively to answer a pressing public health question.
Highlights of her career include:
• Evaluating the Health Disparities Collaboratives, a national quality improvement initiative in community health centers in the United States;
• Helping to launch the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded Finding Answers program, which focuses on reducing racial and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease, diabetes and depression; •Coordinating all aspects of the evaluation of Wisconsin’s Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Youth Suicide Prevention activities;
• Managing the data collection and reporting for several of Wisconsin’s Child Death Review initiatives; and
• Co-creating innovative models of care for pediatric populations for the largest pediatric health system in Wisconsin.
Amy is a member of the American Evaluation Association, Safe States, Milwaukee Evaluation, and Wisconsin Public Health Association. She also serves as the President Of the Menomonee Falls Public Library Board and is a member of the Menomonee Falls Collective Impact project in her hometown of Menomonee Falls, WI.
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