Dr. Sartin serves as an Affiliate Research Scientist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Center for Injury Research and Prevention. Her research focuses on studying and alleviating disparities in health behaviors and improving physical and social outcomes for marginalized populations.
Emma Sartin, PhD, MPH, CPST is an Assistant Professor in the Health Policy and Organization Department at the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Broadly, her research focuses on studying and alleviating disparities in health behaviors and improving physical and social outcomes for marginalized populations. Her current research projects are focused on disparities in childhood unintentional injuries and developing tools and resources for neurodivergent teens learning to drive.
At CIRP, she is working to develop a research program that utilizes data from the New Jersey Safety and Health Outcomes (NJ-SHO) Data Warehouse to establish pathways of disparities in child passenger safety, with a goal of informing future intervention efforts.
BS, University of Alabama (Psychology), 2015
MA, University of Alabama at Birmingham (Health Behavior), 2019
MPH, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2020
PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham (Lifespan Developmental Psychology), 2020
CPST, Safekids Worldwide
Associate’s Certificate, University of Alabama at Birmingham's Center for the Integration of Research, Learning, and Teaching
Affiliate Research Scientist, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Organization, School of Public Health, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Member, The Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine
Member, American Public Health Association
Member, Transportation Research Board
Member, The Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research
STAT Wunderkind, 2023
CHOP Postdoc Award, 2023
CHOP Research Institute Trainee Spotlight, nominated and selected to be the CHOP Research Institute Trainee of the Month for September, 2020
Outstanding Presentation Award, awarded by the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine for best presentation in the Student Symposium at the 2019 conference in Madrid, Spain, 2019
Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine Student Symposium, selected to present in the Student Symposium at the 2019 conference in Madrid, Spain, with travel award of $1,300, 2019
Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Research Fellow, awarded $5,000 towards graduate student stipend to conduct research in transportation, 2019
Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Research Fellow, awarded $5,000 towards graduate student stipend to conduct research in transportation, 2018
Society for Research on Adolescence Emerging Scholar Travel Award, awarded by the Society for Research on Adolescence to present research proposal at 2018 meeting in Minneapolis, MN, 2018
“Creativity is a Decision” Award, awarded $1,000 by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Nutrition and Obesity Research Center for outstanding and “out of the box” research proposal, 2017
Best Poster Presentation in Translational Research, awarded at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Simpson-Ramsey Conference, 2016
Sartin EB, Pfeiffer M, Hartka T, Zonfrillo M, Vaca, F, Metzger, K, Myers, RK. Congruency of Crash-and Hospital-Reported Injuries Among Child Passengers. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2024
Sartin EB, Webb M, Labows C, Myers R, Yerys B, McDonald C, & Curry AE. Caregivers' Perspectives on Use of and Need for Driving Resources for Their Autistic Adolescent. Autism Adulthood. 2024
Sartin, EB, Metzger K, Maheshwari, J. US Caregivers' Attitudes and Risk Perceptions Towards Pediatric Vehicular Heatstroke: A National Survey. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 2023.
Sartin EB, Lombardi L, Metzger K, Myers R, Pfeiffer M, Curry, AE. Variation in Drivers' Seat Belt Use by Indicators of Community-Level Vulnerability. Journal of Safety Research. 2023.
Metzger K, Goodman ES, Foss RD, Joyce NR, Curry AE. Vehicle Safety Characteristics in Vulnerable Driver Populations. Traffic Injury Prevention. 2020.
Goodman ES, McDonald CC, D. Long L, Stavrinos D, Mirman JH. Variations in Booster Seat Use by Child Characteristics. Journal of Safety Research. 2020.
Goodman ES, Bell TR, McDonald CC, Mirman JHafetz. Assessment of Caregiver-Targeted Interventions for Use of Motor Vehicle Passenger Safety Systems for Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Netw Open. 2019;2(10):e1914180.
Goodman ES, Mirman JH, Ford CA, Friedrich E, Ginsburg KR, Miller VA. Frequency of Communication About Adolescents’ Strengths and Weaknesses and the Parent–adolescent Relationship. Applied Developmental Science. 2019.
Mirman JH, Goodman ES, Friedrich E, Ford CA. Talking with Teens About Traffic Safety: Initial Feasibility, Acceptability, and Efficacy of a Parent-targeted Intervention for Primary Care Settings. J Safety Res. 2018;66:113-120.
Identifying contributors to racial and ethnic disparities in child occupant safety. NICHD- R00HD105921.
Development of a novel, evidence- based tool to facilitate independence for autistic individuals, Department of
Defense Career Development Award.