UNC Injury Prevention Research Center



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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.

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.

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.

Students

Community


		IPRC Highlights
		Motorcycle Helmet Laws & Safety Information Injury Free NC Academy 2013-14: Prescription Drug Poisoning/Overdose Prevention (applications currently being accepted) LONGSCAN Congressional Briefing NC Controlled Substances Reporting System Evaluation Report 2011-2012 UNC IPRC Executive Summary Teen Road Safety in North Carolina: Putting Best Practices into Action IPRC Seminar Series A Smart Phone Based Intervention to Prevent Child Maltreatment: Pilot Studies, Presented by Dr. Adam Zolotor Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Honors Fred Wells Branson II with 2012 Community Health Leaders Award View Dr. Daniel Webster and Tard Carter presenting the 2012 Patricia F. Waller Lecture: Changing the Code of the Street in Baltimore: Effects of a Replication of CeaseFire Summer 2012 IPRC News Video of "Prescription Drug Monitoring: A Tool for Providing Safer Clinical Care and Reducing Substance Misuse in NC and the US" Success Stories from the PREVENT Institute IPRC Named Affiliate Center for Safe Communities More News»
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Resources

The Center houses the Biostatistics and Computer Support Core (BCSC), which provides statistical support and computer support services to center-affiliated staff, faculty, and students. In addition, members of the Biostatistics Core seek to contribute to the advancement of the field of injury research by facilitating methodological and statistical research.

Publications