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 Les Fisher, MPH,  a 55-year, retired public health governmental, seasoned  veteran , ( of the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health  , the NY State  Department of Health,   the NY Governor’s Office’s  Consumer Protection Board  , the State University of NY at Albany , and currently a  private safety leadership consultant),  serves as a public health  injury and violence APPLIED PRIMARY  prevention  researcher, practitioner and university instructor /educator/advocate/mentor-coach. He has directed,  planned, developed,  initiated , organized  and evaluated  national - state landmark injury preventive programs;  led in  a dozen new national and state injury prevention laws or regulations ( on flammable children’s nightwear, mobile home fires, regional poison control network funding , toy safety , baby teething rings,  roasting  bags, and various other consumer product substantial risks ) ; served on various national,   state and local advisory  panels and task forces, ( most recently: State University of New York –  Albany’s  four graduate schools Cease Fire / SNUG steering group ; The  Albany Coalition to Prevent Violence ;City of Albany, NY , Gun Violence Prevention  Task Force (in ICEHS Section Library ) from: www.albanyny.org/Government/CityOfficials/CommonCouncil/GunViolenceTaskForce.aspx a precursor to as much as four million dollars of annual NYS funding for evidence-based gun violence prevention community sites  and on the Town of Bethlehem,  Mental Health Task Force );   as  a national resource expert-consultant ( including as a member of the National Safety Council's ,(NSC), Home Department, Executive Committee and to NSC's Industrial  Department, and  in 2016 , a nominee for national NSC award for safety; as a member of the  first Safe Kids National Professional Advisory Council;  to the  US Departments  of Justice and  Health and Human Services;  as Vice Chair, Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission  National Advisory Council;  as a member of the DHHS DMCH Child Daycare Standards Panel ;  to the National Academy of Science – Office of Medicine ,  Injury Prevention and in Forging  Poison Control Centers , to  students at the State University of New York at Albany, School of Public Health and History Department,  and at Russell Sage College; etc. );Advisor, Medical Society of NYS and as a  national conference speaker. He has testified at various local and national hearings ( e.g. invited testimony , Boston in 2000  , first US Surgeon General’s National Goals and Objectives Conference on Suicide Prevention and routinely before the City of Albany, ( NY), Common Council on  violence prevention ) ;  served as  principal investigator  and program director for various national   innovative  leadership prevention  program demonstration contracts and grants (e.g.  NEISS investigations; regional poison prevention, playground and car- infant loaner community based demonstration programs ) and  has published and   presented nationally  some 45 related professional journal published  articles. He published four injury prevention book reviews in journals and at amazon.com and  wrote a book chapter for American Public Health Association’s Injury Prevention for Children and Adolescents.  He is  acknowledged  for his  assistance  in  various    American  history and injury control  professional research  books  and he  routinely  offers his opinions on violence and injury prevention  for the local Albany region written press, television and radio (Search: www.timesunion.com archives ) and  in general public newsletters (  e.g.  November 2009 www Sh’Ma .com http://www.shmadigital.com/shma/200911new/?pg=10 ) .Formerly the Archivist  for the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section , American Public Health  Association  ( APHA) , he writes in ICEHS Section Newsletters and in filed  archives (http://connect.apha.org/messagelist.htm?igid=159766), his "Archivist Attic", histories of public health  leadership in injury and violence prevention as commentaries and also  his eBook , copyright registered, Shaping the Millennium: A History of Child and Home Injury Prevention with Application to Leadership Systems. 200 pages ,open access with tables ,figures, student teaching syllabus  and leadership  historiographic exercises ,  VOL 1. 2021.  APHA History Project publication ,www.aphahistoryproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/A-History-of-Child-and-Home-Injury-Prevention_09052021_NPV4-1.pdf  offers an applied   PRIMARY  PREVENTION historiographical ,  holistic and ecologic thesis  for gun violence, et al homicides , suicides and non-intentional child injuries and fatalities. In November 2020 he received  from  ICEHS Section , its public  service award for outstanding and leadership ...having significant long-term impact in the field ; In  November 2007, he received an ICEHS Section Special Services Award at the Annual  Meeting of APHA in Washington, DC.   His  personal archives on the  history of injury  control leadership are now housed at the University of Colorado, Denver, School of Public Health .

 He helps injury and violence prevention leaders tell collective stories, reconstruct the past, reflect on the present, and imagine the future.

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An extensive community service  resume is available, on request .

  Fisher L. Book Review at www.icehs.org Nov 2007 Newsletter. Editors : Doll LS, Bonzo SE, Mercy J. Sleet D. Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention. Springer Science .2007

e-letter It's not poverty ; that explanation is not even exoneration. les fisher  Injury Prevention : http://ip.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters?lookup=by_date&days=60 web site .  11 October 2005

 e- letter Current and prior injury prevention leadership  Injury Prevention  web site .: http://ip.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/11/3/163#204  June 8, 2005

 Resource consultant on my work,  to: Committee on Poison Prevention and      Control . Forging a Poison Prevention and Control System. Institute of Medicine of National Academies of Science. National Academy Press Washington, DC: 2004; 73-100  and 189-238..

Fisher L .  Community Based Interventions – Less than Perfect .Injury Prevention 2004;10:255.

Fisher L and  Brown TM. .Donald Budd Armstrong and W. Graham Cole: Early Injury Control Advocates. Am J Public Health, Jun 2004; 94: 941

Fisher, L. Review of Book: Night Falls Fast ( National Suicide Epidemic) and related     editorial contributions. Injury Prevention  Dec 2000 .

Fisher , L.  Editorial: dissent  - traditional public health injury control does not apply to violence. Injury Prevention 1999;5: 13-14

Fisher, L. (Letter to Editor ) The Driver’s Role in Auto Safety, American J. Public  Health , May  1997. 87:5, 872-873.

Some 40 published interviews and letters to editor of Albany, Times Union (ww.timesunion.com) on firearm violence and consumer product safety warnings and programs ; Delmar Spotlight and  the Jewish World publications  on child and senior safety and suicide  issues

 Injury Control and Emergency Health Services ( Paper) Newsletter, August 1994, Section History Session I : Background. Since November 2002, the archivist  commentary series in  American Public Health Association, injury control and ems section e- and web newsletters . several on gun and related violence injury prevention

 Fisher, L. Selected Historical Time Line for Injury Prevention and Control .: An appendix chapter in:  Injury Prevention for Children and Adolescent: Research, Practice and Advocacy .edited  Karen   DeSafey Liller , APHA Books. 2006 and edition #2 2012. 

 Other help/ guidance/ mentoring  acknowledgements in books:

  Reiss BD and Evan ME .Pharmacological  Aspects of Nursing Care.  Fifth Edition. Delmar Publishers .  Albany NY 1993.

  Sleet D, Dinh-ZarrTB, Dellingher A.Traffic Safety in the Contest of   Public  Health and Medicine . AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 2007 ( LF cited as historical resource  consultant)

 In:  Acknowledgement , special  paragraph:     History of Injury and Violence as public health problems and  emergence of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at CDC

David A. Sleet ⁎, Grant Baldwin, Angela Marr, Howard Spivak, Sara Patterson, Christine Morrison, Wendy Holmes, Amy B. Peeples, Linda C. Degutis. J Safety Research .43 (2012) (Gracious use of my archives ) 

 In: Acknowledgements Paragraphs (page 94)  :  Lawrence David. Thesis for       doctoral degree( PhD.). The information-seeking behaviors of professions and information sources in the field of injury prevention and safety promotion . Karolinska Institute. Stockholm  2008. 296 pages plus five appendices ( ISBN 978-91-7409-164-9 ).

 Burnham JC. Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age. University of Chicago Press. 2009. In endnotes acknowledgements

 Tarr J and Tebeaue- on  Injury and Violence Prevention .

PUBLIC POLICY AND MANAGEMENT(AU) Latest Revision May 1999

                              Housewives' as home safety managers: The changing perception of the home as a place of hazard and risk, 1870-1940. In ACCIDENTS AND HISTORY: INJURIES, FATALITIES, AND SOCIAL RELATIONS. The Welcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam, 1996,197-233. End notes collaborative confirming acknowledgements 

 Evaluating Injury Prevention Initiatives. RESEARCH CENTRE FOR       INJURY STUDIES FLINDERS UNIVERSITY.( AU) Evaluating Injury Prevention Initiatives: An Annotated Bibliography. Developed by: FLINDERS INSTITUTE

.  Boston MA, Nov  2, 2000

Matters of Opinion. Proven ( pedestrian)  safety measures are needed. Spotlight, Delmar, NY, June 12, 2000; Article ( on screening for youth suicide risks ) good start. June 7, 2004; Information is critical to stop teen suicides. Aug 25, 2004

Albany City (NY) Common Council. Why / why not a gun safety task force,  May 2003 and  Assault weapons resolution,  March 19, 2004.Ongoing volunteer consultant

3.  Various National Presentations

What’s your  concerns on gun violence in Albany? Co-presenter , discussant with  low income youth . YMCA Albany NY, May 10, 2008

Annual Meeting  of American Public Health Association,  Presentation at Injury Control and EMS Section, Plenary Meeting : Haddon and Moynihan : from New York State to Washington, November  16, 1998, Washington, DC.

Annual Meeting of American Public Health Association,  History of Injury Control Introductory Comments as  Archivist  and Session Organizer , In jury Control and EMS Section,  November 11, 1987, Indianapolis, Indiana  ( I  obtained National Academy of Sciences funds to  videotape the session for November 1998 distribution to  Schools of Public Health , from University of North Carolina, School of Public Health, Injury Control Center )

Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Injury Control Center, Safe America  Conference,  Poster discussion presentation on  my History of Injury Control Timeline, November 19, 1997   ( travel expenses paid for by CDC )

Annual Meetings of the American Public Health Association. Progress in Injury Control Session presided , November 8, 1999. Chicago , Illinois 

.Violence:  Themes and Trends in the Bible . Temple Israel. Albany, NY, Oct 14, 2001 

Shaping the Millennium. From the History of Child - Home Injury in the United States, in public health journals (1900 - 1975), to Applications of Leadership Systems. World Conference on Injury Control , Vienna , Austria . June 2004 ( accepted but  unable to travel)

Poster session  originator, with presenters Anara Guard and Kathleen Ferguson Carlson. Shaping the Millennium. From the History of Child - Home Injury in the United States, in public health journals (1900 - 1975), to Applications of Leadership Systems 2005 National Injury Prevention and Control Conference. Injury and Violence In America. Meeting Challenges, Sharing Solutions. May 9-11, 2005. Denver, CO. 

We shall overcome!  Comments at rally against gun violence.  Martin Luther King Park , Albany NY, August 23, 2005

Ancient Hawaiian and Hebrew Public Health Leadership, Rituals and Traditions. Temple Israel, Albany NY, Jan 7, 2006

4.Recent Awards

Nov 5, 2007 .Washington DC Annual Meetings American Public Health Association , Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section. Award for Dedicated Service to Section as public health injury control historian , archivist and practitioner 

Nov 1, 2007. Appointed  Member ,City of Albany Common Council, Task Force on Gun Violence )

                                                                                                                                5. EDUCATION                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                All  tuition fees paid by City of Philadelphia at evening  U of Pennsylvania Wharton Graduate School (Evening Public Affairs Program); Completed all basic MGA courses.

MPH (Environmental Science and Engineering ) University of N.C, Chapel Hill. Commonwealth of PA. paid all fees and tuition and City of Philadelphia leave of absence with 3/4 salary

PSU BS Microbiology

         MISCELLANEOUS PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

I have routinely enrolled and completed in-service and external technical, administrative, supervisory, managerial, and executive training courses, e.g.: Advanced Biochemistry, State University of NY at Albany, Fall 1987; Health Policy Management, School of Public Health, SUNY-Albany, Spring 1988; Policy Management Options, School of Public Health, SUNY-ALBANY, Fall 1989; Getting the Work Done: Advanced Supervision, NYS Governor's Office of Employee Relations, March 1991; Career Management Training, NYS Governor's Office of Employee Relations, August 1990-June 1991; Effective Writing, May 1991, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.

          EXPERIENCE

OVERALL SUMMARY: SERVES AS AN ADVISOR, RESOURCE EXPERT AND CONSULTANT IN SAFETY POLICY AND MANAGEMENT to NYS Commissioner of Health .MY OVERALL EXPERIENCES (See Resume Summary –att 1 ) INCLUDE DEVELOPING AND MANAGING THE NYS POISON CONTROL NETWORK ACT, OVERSEEING IT’S ADVIORY COUNCIL, REGULATIONS AND FUNDING (5.0 million dollars/ year), STATEWIDE ANNUAL REPORTS ON OVER 150,000 EXPOSURES, FOR COMPLIANCE WITH STATE REGULATIONS, PREPARATION OF THE ANNUAL REPORTS TO THE LEGISLATURE, REVIEWS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS, STAFFING THE COMMISSIONER'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE. .DEVELOPING, AS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, AND FISCAL-PROGRAM MANAGER, 25 GRANTS. PUBLISHING THIRTY ARTICLES IN THE PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE. STATE AGENCYIES’ SPOKESPERSON TO LEGISLATURE AND ALLIED PUBLIC AGENCIES AND GROUPS AND NATIONAL PRESENTATION AND  SPEAKER, TRAINER, AND RESOURCE EXPERT IN MANAGEMENT AND HISTORY OF INJURY PREVENTION PROGRAMS AND LEGISLATION. SERVING AS A PANELIST TO NEW YORK AND OTHER NATIONAL ADVISORY GROUPS, E.G. U. S. DEPARTMENT'OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ( Maternal and Child Health ), AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION, SAFE KIDS, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS, CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION, CONGRESS (Office of Technology), MEDICAL SOCIETY OF STATE OF NY, NY STATE LEGISLATURE, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF POISON CONTROL CENTERS.

MY PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS, GRANT AWARDS LECTURERS, WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS AND STATE AND FEDERAL LEGISLATION ARE CITED IN APPENDIX A; COMMUNITY SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES ARE APPENDIX B. DETAILS FOLLOW:

1. September 1992 – April 1995 (retired from NYS Department of Health )

Assistant Director, Research and Policy Development, Division of Public Health Protection, Department of Health

Duties: Develop, initiate and access data reporting systems from Medical Examiners, regional poison control centers, insurance carriers, other State agencies and organizations on adverse public health sequelae associated with licit prescription drugs; prepare proposed policy recommendations for controlled substances; help develop new legislation and regulations.

2. October 1989 - September 1992

Child Safety Consultant, Injury Control Program, New York State Department of Health

The Injury Control Program is responsible for identifying and reducing non-intentional home, traffic, and public injuries, the leading cause of death for children.

Develop, manage, and evaluate the operational requirements and expenditures (S4.0 million/yr )of the six regional Poison Control Centers, design and prepare Annual Reports to the Legislature, staff the Commissioner's Advisory Committee on Poison Prevention and Control, develop or review legislative proposals, ensure compliance and direct enforcement actions arising from investigations or site visits. I established the state's first poisoning reporting and surveillance system from the centers and then standardized it to national reporting systems. 'My primary contacts are directly with six medical directors and involve extensive interpersonal communication and conceptual management skills.

Developed and serve as State program and fiscal manager for two elderly home safe home projects directed by two local health departments to collect injury data and to reduce injuries. The projects are funded under Federal Preventive Block, State Health Department, discretionary contracts.

Served as an advisor, mentor, and resource expert on agenda, technical and managerial strategies to national, state and local program directors of injury prevention and related groups and organizations, including the media; primary state health department liaison with the National Safety Council, Food & Drug Administration and Consumer Product Safety Commission.

3. December 1986 - October 1989.

Manager, Preventive Services, Injury Control Program, New York State Department of Health

Duties: Within a newly-established Injury Control Program, as requested by the Health Commissioner, Formulated grants and program plans, developed, managed, coordinated, and oversaw home, poison control  and highway injury prevention programs and grant expenditures ($ 2.0 million)

Provided expert technical, managerial advice, consultation and leadership to the New York State Department of Health, local other state and the federal government and universities as an accomplished resource expert in preventive services and encouraged new leadership directions which were then initiated; represented the New York State Department of Health on various state and national task, forces, workgroups, panels; supervised a staff of two professionals and one secretary and was the principal formulator and investigator and administrator for three ($450,000/yr) federal grants (see Appendix A)

        4.  January 1979 - December 1986

Director, Child Injury Prevention Program, Bureau

of Child Health

New York State Department of Health

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•  Directed and managed programs in child/automobile safety, lead and poison-prevention and control, adolescent suicide prevention, injury prevention/control, and day care centers; contract manager for clinical, prenatal, adolescent health, rehabilitation contracts:

Defined problems, performed necessary research, and developed, planned, and directed preventive services in original and complex new areas of prevention of childhood injuries. These areas were usually minimally researched and require creativity and usually unconventional approaches. Such initiatives led to significant creative contributions to the existing preventive theories and practices as demonstrated in applying for and fulfilling Health Research, Inc. (HRI) grants as Principal Investigator and in initial articles in professional literature. (Listing of grant awards and publications are available as an appendix.)

Conducted in-depth review of the literature about previously unyielding problems of accidental, suicidal, and homicidal deaths related to adolescents. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services approved related grant proposals with research components and the Governor's Office used parts of these materials for strategy recommendations for its report on the prevention of adolescent suicide.

Co-chairperson New York State Department of Health Injury Prevention Task Force; member of Governor's Task Force on Adolescent Suicide Prevention, Bicycle Safety and Head Injuries.

Research and program consultant to DHHS-DMCH and eight other state MCH programs on developing childhood injury prevention programs. The incumbent's research is described in the federal publication, Developing Childhood Injury Prevention Programs. February 1983, for a chapter in a text, Introduction to Health Education. Bates and Wander 1984, and in Personal and Family Safety and Crime Prevention. Strange Clinic, New York, NY 1981.

Coordinated interdepartmental study group on infant incubator safety (mercury and fire risk identification and their resolution)

Member of the Task Force for Identifying Childhood Lead Poisoning and preparing a state plan

With the federal CDC and the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles studying causes of adolescent suicide clusters and motor vehicle injuries involving single-car accidents to adolescents

In consultation with the Commissioner's Advisory Committee on Poison Prevention and Control, published a state poisoning incidence report, departmental guidelines for regional poison control centers, a state emergency alert system, guiding state legislation for supporting regional centers, and researching national rules and regulations related to poison prevention and control.

    5.  April 1975 - January 1979

     Advisor, Product Safety, Health Education Unit New  York State Department of Health

     •  Planned and conducted various health informational and educational initiatives in safety, nutrition. This included weekly, prime-time news segments on radio and TV. Additionally, developed and fulfilled grant proposals (see Appendix)

  6.  Director, Product Safety, New York State Consumer

Protection Board, New York State Executive Department, Governor’s Office  (See Appendix)

 (Leave of absence from the New YorK State Department of Health) 

•  Directed and coordinated for the Governor's Office, statewide consumer safety initiatives of the various state agencies. Supervised major segment of statewide consumer complaint and injury trend program.

  7. Director, Burns Prevention Program New York     State Department of Health

At the request of the Commissioner of Health:

Directed and supervised a unit - three full-time, five part-time staff and several summer medical student interns; responsibilities included planning, development, and initiation of various burn and other child injury prevention studies and service programs. I had used my earlier work of establishing a statewide fire incident reporting system from fire departments and helping set up the federal Department of Health and Human Service National Injury Surveillance System from hospital emergency departments to advocate preventive health practices for reducing identifies priority trends of morbidity and mortality. (See Appendix for professional publications and grants).

With federal and industrial toxicologists, helped formulate and coordinated the national research and appropriate plan of attack to identify the causes of dermatological rashes to housewives from a laundry product. Coordinated similar studies involving mothers who were allegedly poisoned from arsenic from dishwater sealant compounds and children who were allegedly being poisoned from lead paint on drinking glasses

With the camping tent industry and the federal government, conducted the necessary basic research documenting the high flammability of tents related to burns in young children. Study promoted passage of the State Tent Flammability Act.

Developed a plan to determine the extent of non-complying child-resistant safety packaging of household products and non-complying dangerous toys in the marketplace. The research plan used consumer volunteers to spot-check for compliance with federal laws.

Coordinated a study of public demand for safer products for children following consumer informational programs

8. Safety Consultant NYS Department of Health, Injury Control and EMS Section   1968-1970)

Consulted to local organizations on injury prevention

9.  Sanitarian  I Philadelphia Department of Public Health ( 1964-1968)