BIO
Deborah Pullin, B.S.N., M.P.H., joined UVM in 2020 as a part-time instructor. In addition to her work with the MPH program, she currently works part-time in school health with districts in the Burlington area. Pullin is passionate about children’s health, the public health consequences of family adversity, and practice improvement.
For the prior two decades, Pullin worked in Child Abuse Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and taught at the Geisel School of Medicine; she very much enjoyed the multi-disciplinary and multi-agency aspects of that work. Pullin was instrumental in setting up and garnering external funding for the multi-disciplinary child maltreatment program at the hospital. For seven of those years, she was the acting program director and child maltreatment rotation director for both the medical school and the Pediatric Residency.
Pullin had previously provided primary care to children from birth through adolescence in Minnesota and New Hampshire and worked in Public Health Nursing in Ontario, Canada. At Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Deb was privileged to actively participate in both the PediBIRN and ExSTRA multi-center research studies and prior to those in the Tobacco Use in Rural Children studies.
Area(s) of expertise
Epidemiology, Public Health Policy, Social Determinants of Health and Child Health
Bio
Deborah Pullin, B.S.N., M.P.H., joined UVM in 2020 as a part-time instructor. In addition to her work with the MPH program, she currently works part-time in school health with districts in the Burlington area. Pullin is passionate about children’s health, the public health consequences of family adversity, and practice improvement.
For the prior two decades, Pullin worked in Child Abuse Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and taught at the Geisel School of Medicine; she very much enjoyed the multi-disciplinary and multi-agency aspects of that work. Pullin was instrumental in setting up and garnering external funding for the multi-disciplinary child maltreatment program at the hospital. For seven of those years, she was the acting program director and child maltreatment rotation director for both the medical school and the Pediatric Residency.
Pullin had previously provided primary care to children from birth through adolescence in Minnesota and New Hampshire and worked in Public Health Nursing in Ontario, Canada. At Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Deb was privileged to actively participate in both the PediBIRN and ExSTRA multi-center research studies and prior to those in the Tobacco Use in Rural Children studies.
Areas of Expertise
Epidemiology, Public Health Policy, Social Determinants of Health and Child Health