Emma Sartin, PhD, MPH
Emma Sartin Goodman, PhD, MPH, was elected President of DRI in September 2025 by the board of directors. Trained in public health, psychology, and transportation safety, she is focused on expanding access to supportive, evidence-based services that help people drive, ride, roll, and navigate community mobility with confidence. Her goals as president include strengthening partnerships, improving resources for families and clinicians, and ensuring DRI’s work reflects the needs of people across ages, abilities, and life circumstances.
Emma completed a dual-degree PhD in Lifespan Developmental Psychology and MPH in Health Behavior program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She then completed a postdoc at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Emma has been an active researcher for more than a decade, with more than 30 peer-reviewed publications focused on traffic safety, autism, learning to drive, and child passenger safety.
Emma replaces Miriam Monahan, OTD CDRS who welcomes retirement after being president of DRI for 20 years. Emma and Miriam have been collaborators for a long time and will continue to work together.
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Drive Focus is not compatible with any phones because the screen size is too small.
Drive Focus is compatible with these devices: iPads, Android tablets, Amazon Fire Tablets, MacBooks with M1 chips, Chromebooks, Windows 11, and Apple Vision Pro. If you don’t have access to one of these devices and cost is a consideration, we recommend Amazon Fire Tablets, Android tablets, and Google Chromebooks.
In addition to the volume control on your tablet, there are two other things that affect the sound.
1. When taking a Drive, you can adjust roadway and background sound volume using the slider bar.
2. You can also turn on and off the roadway sounds and the acknowledgement chimes and beeps in the Drive Focus app settings
Use the biggest screen you can. Here’s why:
When you use Drive Focus, you are looking at the road from the perspective of a driver. If you are using a small screen, it will be difficult to pick out things that are far away from the driver, like an upcoming traffic light or sign.
We do not recommend screens smaller than 10 inches or 25.4cm.
