Who We Are
The National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention supports local, state, and tribal teams working to understand and address patterns in preventable deaths.
To do this:
We offer practical training, expert guidance, and trustworthy resources that equip fatality review teams to turn data analysis insights into impact.
We develop and host data systems that ensure that information on preventable deaths is robust, reliable, and available to guide efforts to promote safer and healthier communities.
The National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention is a program of the Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI). We work closely with our Steering Committee to ensure our resources and services respond to the needs of fatality review teams across the nation.
Meet Our Team
The staff of the National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention includes people who can guide and support you in every aspect of fatality review – from the highly technical aspects to the practical logistics and the social and emotional aspects of the work. Our team includes experts in data systems and data analysis, epidemiologists, skilled facilitators, and folks with the experience to help you establish, design, or improve your program. Many of us served on local or state fatality review teams before joining the National Center.
The best way to get in touch is through our contact form. This helps us connect you to the person with the right background to meet your need.
Abby Collier
Director of the National Center
Dan Litvinoff
Contracts Project Coordinator
Dawn Porter
Senior Project Coordinator
Edege Vales
Senior Project Coordinator
Gabby Hillers
Senior Data Analyst
Heather Dykstra
Senior Data Manager
Heather MacLeod
Senior Project Manager
Jess Perfette
Senior Project Coordinator
Joshua G. Thomas
Senior Project Coordinator
Krisha Felzke
Project Coordinator
Lauren Sawyer
Program Specialist
Meghan Faulkner
Director of the SUID and SDY Case Registry Data Coordinating Center
Patti Schnitzer
Data Systems Consultant
Sasha Mintz
Senior Epidemiologist
Stacy Meade
Senior Project Coordinator
Susanna Joy
FIMR Lead
Tell me about MPHI…
The National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention is a part of MPHI, Michigan Public Health Institute, which works with partners to improve health for all.
Introduce me to the Steering Committee…
The Steering Committee assists the National Center by providing guidance for strategies to sustain fatality review at local, state and national levels, providing expertise in critical areas of our work, and helping connect the Center with national partners and resources.
Building Fatality Review Teams
To uncover lessons from individual deaths, it helps to have multiple people – who have unique perspectives – reviewing a death. Strong partnerships across different sectors are important to translate insights into impact.
Key Funding Acknowledgment
The National Center is funded in part by Cooperative Agreement Number UG7MC28482 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) as part of an award totaling $5,149,996 annually with 0 percent financed with non-governmental sources. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.