John Sumner

Professional Experience: Provided staff support and was integrally involved in the planning and establishment of the District of Columbia Department of Health Key author of successful CDC grant application to continue 5 years of funding for the District of Columbia Linkage and Tracking System Was a key team member of the NIH-DC Initiative to Reduce Infant Mortality in the District of Columbia. Provided data linkage and analytical support to the scientific protocol: Evaluating Disguised Prenatal Care in the District of Columbia. Was main DC-DOH data liaison to the national project contracted to Mathematica, to “Evaluate State Data Linkage the Data Integration Systems.” Developed and Provided linked DC Infant-Death-Birth data to Mathematica. Developed the core SAS program now used ...