Dr. Qualters is director of the Division of Injury Prevention in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at CDC. Since 1989, Dr. Qualters has been a scientist at CDC, where she’s investigated cancer among Vietnam veterans as part of the Agent Orange Project, analyzed cancer and non-cancer health risks among communities exposed to contaminants from nuclear weapons production and testing, and worked on the conceptualization and implementation of two large national chronic disease programs: CDC’s Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program and the National Program of Cancer Registries. From 2002 through 2010, she led the development and implementation of NCEH’s flagship surveillance program, the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program. Under her leadership, the program and its cornerstone product, the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network, went from concept to reality.

Dr. Qualters is an internationally recognized expert on surveillance and the linkage of health effects, exposures and hazard data. She received several awards, including the American Public Health Association Health Informatics & Information Technology Leadership Award.

Dr. Qualters received her master's of public health in epidemiology from the University of Michigan and her PhD in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.