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Rebecca T. Leeb, PhD
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- Child Maltreatment
Epidemiologist, Division of Violence Prevention, NCIPC
Rebecca T. Leeb, PhD, is an epidemiologist in the Division of Violence Prevention at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). Her area of focus is research related to child maltreatment.
Dr. Leeb has been with the Division of Violence Prevention since she began her career at CDC in 2002. She is the author of the CDC publication Child Maltreatment Surveillance Uniform Definitions for Public Health and Recommended Data Elements, and has presented and authored various papers on risk and protective factors for child maltreatment.
Dr. Leeb received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her Master of Arts degree in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University, and her PhD from McGill University in Montreal. From 1999-2002 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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