Linda Hill, MD, MPH

Dr. Linda L Hill, TREDS Director, is a Distinguished Professor and Founding Faculty of the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health, where she is also Associate Dean. Hill obtained her MD from the University of Ottawa, in Ottawa, Canada in 1978 and completed a transitional internship at McGill University in 1979. She completed her residency in Preventive Medicine from the University of California San Diego (UCSD)/San Diego State University (SDSU) General Preventive Medicine Residency in 1985. She is a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine. She is Faculty and Immediate Past Program Director of the UCSD/SDSU General Preventive Medicine Residency since 1989. San Diego Family Care, a Federal 330 Community Health Center, is the site of her clinical activities, as Medical Director 1980 to 2001, and Senior Staff Physician since 2001.

She is Co-Director of the UCSD Center for Human and Urban Mobility. She is the Executive Director of the Asylum-Seeker Shelter Health Assessment Program. Dr. Hill is engaged in prevention research and teaching, with current and past support from the National Institutes of Health, the California Office of Traffic Safety, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, American Cancer Society,  Health Services Resource Administration, Federal Motor Carriers Service Association, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, Caltrans, and the Bureau of Cannabis Control. She is the author of 110+ peer reviewed papers, four book chapters, and 140+ abstracts.