She is an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. For decades, she has researched accidents and about 40 years ago she taught Hopkins's first class in injury prevention. She's been funded by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and, at the age of 82, has just co-authored a 700-page book, “Injury Research: Theories, Methods and Approaches,” with Guohua Li, a former student who is now a Columbia University professor. Her name is Susan P. Baker, and he is highlighted in a wonderful article in the New York Times Sunday Magazine entitled, “Safety Lessons From the Morgue.”

