Director, Division of Disabilty and Health Policy
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Dr. Anthony Cahill is the Center Evaluation Director and Director of the Division of Disability and Health Policy at the Center for Development and Disability in the University of New Mexico’s School of Medicine; Affiliated Professor of Public Administration in the University’s School of Public Administration; and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the University’s School of Medicine. For over ten years, he was the research director of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation’s Paralysis Resource Center. Among the projects on which he has worked are a national population survey of 70,000 households to identify the prevalence and impact of paralysis in the United States; a national, randomized longitudinal control group study of a health promotion intervention for youth with disabilities funded by the National Institutes of Health; and an eighteen month project to assess the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on people with disabilities in the gulf states. In 2019, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Disability Section of the American Public Health Association, and in 2011 he received the National Research Awardfrom the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association for his article The Psychosocial Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Persons with Disabilities and Independent Living Center Staff Living on the American Gulf Coast in the journal Rehabilitation Psychology