He has published hundreds of articles and book chapters and was co-editor of the Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention.
He concurrently served as an adjunct professor at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health.
Before joining CDC, Dr. Sleet taught and conducted research at San Diego State University, directed the Road Accident Research Unit at the University of Western Australia, and worked as a visiting scientist at the United States Department of Transportation and the VTT (the Road Safety Agency) of Finland.
Dr. Sleet served on a systematic review team that led to a Community Preventive Services Task Force[6] recommendation to lower the legal blood alcohol content (BAC) limit to 0.08 percent for drivers in the United States.
This recommendation helped inform the U.S. Congress which mandated states adopt the stricter BAC limit of 0.08 percent by October 2003 or risk losing a portion of their highway funding.