Eva Shipp, PhD

Biography

Dr. Eva M. Shipp is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Texas A&M School of Public Health. She also is an affiliate of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute where she served as the Team Lead for the Crash Analytics Team in the Center for Transportation Safety for eight years. During her formal training, she concentrated on occupational and injury epidemiology.  

Her research projects focus primarily on transportation safety among workers, including truck drivers and those engaged in agriculture and forestry operations, and vulnerable road users (e.g., pedestrians and motorcycle riders). She is particularly interested in improving injury surveillance methods through novel data sources and data integration. Dr. Shipp also seeks to improve the delivery and evaluation of employer-provided traffic safety programs. She has led or supported research funded through the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), the Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program (BTSCRP), and state and local sponsors.  

 Dr. Shipp is a member of the NIOSH National Occupational Research Agenda Traumatic Injury Council, the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Council, and the technical advisor to the Texas Traffic Records Coordinating Committee.