Nancy Pullen-Seufert joined the University of North Carolina (UNC) Highway Safety Research Center in 2003. She currently serves as Senior Research Associate, Director of the National Center for Safe Routes to School, and Associate Director of the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center. The focus of her work has been on the safety and mobility of people using active transportation, especially children and teens. She has led the development of international and national strategies for children’s pedestrian safety garnering support and engagement with city, state and federal agencies and foundations. Much of her work has focused on sharing good practices and building capacity among transportation, public health and other professionals through training development, fostering peer networks, demonstration site projects and evaluation.  She has led projects including training development and delivery for the FHWA Safe Routes to School clearinghouse, strategy and implementation of the Vision Zero for Youth Initiative, technical assistance for the North Carolina Safe Routes to School Program, development of NHTSA National Strategy to Increase Bicyclist Helmet Use (subcontractor) and numerous other projects to develop and support city and state level implementation of multi-faceted road safety programs.

Before coming to HSRC, she worked as a health educator and public health prevention specialist in several settings including a non-profit organization, county health department, and hospital injury prevention center (where she also served as the manager), before earning her Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina.