Dr. Flannagan is a Research Professor in UMTRI’s Biosciences Group, and Director of the Center for the Management of Information for Safe and Sustainable Transportation CMISST, at UMTRI. She serves on the Statistics and Methods section of the Research Core at the U-M Injury Prevention Center (IPC) providing support for transportation methods, data, and analysis. Dr. Flannagan is also the Motor Vehicle Crash (MVC) Content Lead for the IPC Center, providing expertise in the area of MVC prevention science.
Dr. Flannagan has over 20 years of experience conducting data analysis and research on injury risk related to motor vehicle crashes and was responsible for the development of a model of injury outcome that allows side-by-side comparison of public health, vehicle, roadway and post-crash interventions.