Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp is a medical epidemiologist and chief of the developmental disabilities branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she has worked since 1981.
from Emory University in 1972, where she was the first black woman to enroll in the medical school,[3] and completed her residency in preventive medicine in 1984.
[7] In 2008, the American Academy of Pediatrics gave Yeargin-Allsopp the Arnold J. Capute Award for her work in the field of children's disabilities.
[8] Yeargin-Allsopp's research focuses mainly on the epidemiology of autism and other developmental disabilities such as cerebral palsy, especially in urban areas.
She was the first to develop a population-based surveillance system to measure the prevalence of such disabilities among school-age children.