Director
National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention
Abby Collier, MS: Director at the National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention (National Center), a program of MPHI. In this role, Ms. Collier leads the National Center in providing technical assistance and supporting to local and state child death review (CDR) and fetal infant mortality review (FIMR) programs throughout the United States. Additionally, Ms. Collier oversees the National Fatality Review-Case Reporting System (NFR-CRS), which is used by CDR and FIMR teams in 47 states. NFR-CRS captures information about how and why children die to help prevent future deaths. Ms. Collier provides training and technical assistance on a wide variety of topics including best practices in fatality review, reducing secondary trauma, improving data quality, improving equity in fatality review, and building partnerships. Ms. Collier has a master’s degree in counseling and is pursuing a doctorate in public health.