Presenter:  Emily Watson, MPH is a Senior Program Associate in the National Council on Aging’s Center for Healthy Aging. There she supports healthy aging initiatives, sustainability and policy opportunities within falls prevention and behavioral health. She provides technical assistance to grantees and state coalitions and supports the Center for Healthy Aging’s work disseminating evidence-based programs in communities across the country. Her work focuses on the Center’s Falls Free© Initiative and supports NCOA’s behavioral health work. Recent behavioral health work includes Lessons Learned on the Sustainability of Older Adult Community Behavioral Health Services available on ncoa.org and work on a national project team to expand screening and brief intervention of substance abuse to include medication management and delivery in community settings.  She graduated from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. During and following graduate school, she directed program evaluation for the American Liver Foundation.