Meet our Deputy Director: Linette Scott, MD, MPH

Dr. Scott is a Board Certified Physician in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. She has a Doctor of Medicine from Eastern Virginia Medical School, a Masters in Public Health from University of California, Davis, and a Bachelors of Arts in Physics from University of California, Santa Cruz.  Following medical school, Dr. Scott completed a Pediatric Internship at Portsmouth Naval Medical Center and then served as a General Medical Officer with the United States Navy for four years, first as squadron physician with the Regional Support Group and later as the military physician for an Active Duty clinic.  After completing the Preventive Medicine Residency Program with the California Department of Health Services, Dr. Scott joined the Department as a Public Health Medical Officer, developing expertise in data and information systems, geographic information systems (GIS), data policies and public health informatics. As the Deputy Director for Health Information and Strategic Planning (HISP) since January, 2008, Dr. Scott has provided leadership in public health informatics, health information exchange initiatives and strategic planning.

Presentations given by Dr. Scott

• "California Health Information Exchange" (PDF)
  Presented for Government Technology Conference, Sacramento, CA 5-2011
• "Transforming Health ... The Movement is Afoot" (PDF)
  Presented for California eHealth Collaborative, Webinar, 4-2011
• "Enabling Health Information Exchange in California: A Public Health Perspective" (PDF)
   Presented for North Coast Health Information Association, CA 12-2010
• "What's HIT/HIE got to do with Community Health?" (PDF)
  Presented for 2010 CPHA-N Annual Business Meeting & Scientific Program, Oakland, CA, 6-2010
• "Public Health and the Integration of Care" (PDF)
  Presented for UC Davis Health Informatics Program, 4th Annual Conference, Sacramento, CA 2-2010
• "HIE and Public Health" (PDF)
  Presented for DPAC Presents, Sacramento, CA, 11-2009
• "Electronic Health Records: Why are they important" (PDF)
  Presented for APHA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, CA, 11-2009
• "Planning for Health Information Technology and Exchange in Public Health" (PDF) 
  Presented for UC Davis Health Informatics 2009 Seminar Series, Sacramento, CA, 8-2009
• "Use of Electronic Death Registration System for Infectious Disease Surveillance" (PDF)
  Presented for Center for Infectious Diseases & Emergency Readiness (CIDER) Summit 2009, San Francisco, CA, 8-2009
• "Electronic Health Records:  Why are they important" (PDF) 
  Presented for National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 6-2009
• "My Program and Why You Should Fund It"
  Presented for National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 6-2009
• “Looking to the Future: Vital Statistics Supporting Public Health Policy”
  Presented for Plenary Session, National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 6-2008
• “Connecting California” (PDF)
  Presented for Plenary Session, CalGIS 14th Annual Conference, Modesto CA 4-2008
• “Building Bridges: Reducing Chronic Disease in California”
  Presented for California Conference of Local Health Officers Semi-Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, 5-2007
• “GIS for Public Health: Experiences in the California Department of Health Services”
  Presented for Health Informatics Seminar, University of California, Davis, CA, 9-2006
• “GIS and Vital Statistics in California”
  Presented for ESRI 26th Annual International Users Conference, San Diego, CA 8-2006
• Moderated session: “Integration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with Vital Records and Public Health Applications” at the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 6-2006
• “How GIS Improves Quality and Utility of California’s Vital Statistics”
  Presented for CalGIS 12th Annual Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, 4-2006
• “Federated Geographic Information Systems for California Department of Health Services”
  Presented for California Conference of Local Health Data Managers Annual Conference, Sacramento, CA, 10-2005
• “GIS in Public Health: A view from vital statistics"
  Presented for Health Services Research in Primary Care weekly Seminar Series, Sacramento, CA, 6-2005

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