Megan is an emergency physician, researcher, and internationally recognized leader in public health innovation. She is the inaugural Dean of the independent Yale School of Public Health, and the C. E. A. Winslow Professor of Public Health and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Yale. She earned her M.D. from Columbia University, M.P.H. from Brown University, and a B.A. in history of science from Harvard University. She completed her emergency medicine residency and injury prevention fellowship at Brown.
Her career has been shaped by her front-line experience with many of the world’s most pressing health crises, as well as her scientific and programmatic leadership in community-based responses. She is best known for her work addressing firearm injury as a public health issue.
