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Overview

Founded in 1987, the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center (UNC IPRC) is one of 11 "Centers of Excellence" funded by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Center's mission is to build the field of injury prevention and control through a combination of interdisciplinary scholarly approaches to research, intervention, and evaluation as well as through the training of the next generation of researchers and practitioners. Now in its 26th year of operation, the UNC IPRC is proud of it's accomplishments as a mature and highly productive Center and strives to continue affecting change at the state, national, and international level.

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Research

IPRC operates as a “center without walls,” facilitating injury collaboration and research on our own campus as well as with researchers and practitioners throughout the US, and increasingly throughout the world. Since 1987, more than 185 discreet research projects have been funded through the Center accounting for more than $100.5 million in grant awards, plus $14.2 million from the CDC through to run Center operations and key research projects.

 

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Faculty and Staff

The Center is comprised of all the investigators working with our many projects. These faculty members, principal investigators, project directors, staff and students, come from more than a dozen academic units on the Chapel Hill campus and investigators on several other UNC campuses. Projects funded and administered through the center have involved more than 85 faculty members for 20 different units at UNC and 35 other institutions.

 

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