Spring 2012 News
- UNC IPRC celebrates 25th anniversary and the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control celebrates 20th anniversary.
- Letter from Interim Director Steve Marshall
- Dr. Carol Runyan Leaves Lasting Legacy to Center
- New Fund Honors Runyan's Legacy, supports junior faculty
- Donor Profile: Ginger Yang
- Faculty Profile: Adam Zolotor, MD, DrPH,
- Evaluation Core Growing Rapidly
- Prescription Drug Overdose Prevention New IPRC Focus
- IPRC Rewards Injury Advocates
- Register now for the 2012 Injury and Violence Prevention Conference, May 9 in Chapel Hill
- John D. Butts Scholarship Names First Recipient.
- Fall 2011 IPRC Seminars
- Recent UNC IPRC Leadership & Honors
- IPRC Alumni Updates
- SELECTED CURRENT IPRC PROJECT: LONGSCAN legacy translated into current policy and practice recommendations using innovative translation and dissemination strategy, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
- SELECTED CURRENT IPRC PROJECT: NC-ACE: The nation's first rural Academic Center of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention
- PARTNER NEWS: UNC Highway Safety Research Center
IPRC Alumni Updates
Former IPRC post-doctoral student Stephanie Block is now Assistant Professor of Psychology in Applied Developmental Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.Dr. Block’s research focuses on three major areas: child maltreatment; psychology and law; and memory for trauma. Guided by a social-ecological perspective and interdisciplinary training, she conducts research that generates knowledge and informs public policy relevant to children in the child welfare and legal systems. In the fall of 2011, she joined the faculty at UML, teaching courses in Psychology and Law, Child Maltreatment and in Child and Adolescent Development.
Kimberley Freire, PhD, MPH, is now a Behavioral Scientist at the CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
Dr. Freire worked at IPRC from 2002-2006 and graduated form UNC in 2008 with her doctorate in Health Behavior and Education. Since then, she has worked in the Division of Violence Prevention at the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control where she primarily focuses on intimate partner, sexual and teen dating violence prevention. Within these topic areas, her current work interests include program evaluation, implementation and dissemination research and building organizations’ capacity to support prevention strategies. Dr. Freire has also worked on global projects, traveling to Israel last year for a UNICEF project examining safety risks for children living in Gaza. She is currently serving as chair of APHA’s Injury Control and Emergency Health Services section, which allows her to stay in touch with many of her former IPRC colleagues. During her work at the IPRC, she worked on the PREVENT project and several other program evaluations. She also co-authored two book chapters with Dr. Carol Runyan.
Renee M. Johnson, PhD, MPH is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, and is the recipient of a recent NIH career development award.
Dr. Johnson worked at the IPRC from 2001 to 2003, obtaining her doctorate from UNC’s School of Public Health in 2004. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health, she joined the faculty at the Boston University School of Public Health in 2009, where she is Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences. In November 2011, Dr. Johnson received a career development award from NIH to examine the associations among neighbor hood-level factors, patterns of marijuana use in adolescence, and social problems in emerging adulthood. The five-year grant was awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and responds to their stated priority of assessing the determinants of substance use among vulnerable populations. Her findings will identify modifiable neighbor hood-level factors associated with marijuana and other substance use, and will be strategically disseminated so as to inform prevention.
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