Scott Proescholdbell joined the Injury and Violence Prevention Branch at the North Carolina Division of Public Health in June 2008 to head the Injury Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit, where he is the Principle Investigator of the North Carolina Violent Death Reporting System and North Carolina Prescription Drug Overdose project, and he is working to build capacity for a general injury surveillance system. He serves on several state and national groups working to reduce drug overdose deaths. He has an Adjunct Faculty appointment with the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina Gilling’s School of Global Public Health.