Founded in 1987, the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center (UNC IPRC) is one of 12 "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 19th 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. Now in its 20th year of operation, IPRC is proud of its accomplishments as a mature and highly productive enterprise.  Since 1987, more than 194 discrete research projects have been funded through the Center accounting for close to $104 million in grant awards, plus $14.2 million from the CDC.