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Patricia F. Waller Lecture

This annual lecture is held in memory of Patricia Fossum Waller, PhD, a UNC professor who worked for nearly two decades as a researcher at the UNC Highway Safety Research Center, where she developed the concept for graduated licensing that would become adopted nationwide.

She launched the Injury Prevention Research Center with a vision merging her background in traffic safety with public health perspectives on injury control. Waller later was director of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and professor of public health policy and administration. She retired to Chapel Hill in 1999.

The event is sponsored jointly by the UNC Highway Safety Research Center, the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center and the UNC-CH Department of Psychology.

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