UNC Injury Prevention Research Center

IPRC provides traditional classroom setting and distance education for public health and medical providers, as well as others interested in learning about the field of injury prevention. IPRC is open to new opportunities for expanding our distance and continuing education capacities and is currently serving as the lead site for the National Training Initiative for Injury and Violence Prevention (NTI) and PREVENT, a violence prevention training effort and a component of NTI. Through these initiatives and other training activities, IPRC plays a central role in bridging research to practice and building the injury and violence prevention infrastructure.

Injury and Violence As Public Health Problems (HBHE 725, MHCH 725, EPID 695). This three-credit course is offered yearly in the UNC School of Public Health Graduate School. The course considers the causes and consequences of traumatic injury within developmental, social, and economic contexts, and dilemmas in injury research and prevention. Injuries associated with transportation, violence, and the home and occupational environments are included.

Funding: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, UNC School of Public Health

Now in its sixth year, the National Training Initiative for Injury and Violence Prevention (NTI), a project of the Joint Committee on Infrastructure Development, is a collaboration between the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) and the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association (STIPDA). The purpose of NTI is to reduce mortality and morbidity from injury in the United States through enhancement of the training infrastructure for state, local and tribal health departments and their diverse partners. Major activities for 2006 include ongoing dissemination of the Core Competencies for Injury and Violence Prevention; continued collaboration with the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control to develop evidence-based bulletins that will serve as a companion product to an injury and violence prevention book entitled Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention; and completion of a strategic planning process to outline future directions and activities.

Key Personnel: Carol W. Runyan, MPH, PhD (Joint Committee Co-Chair); Shelli Stephens-Stidham (Joint Committee Co-Chair); J’Ingrid Mathis, MS; Emily Johnson, MPH; Marilena Amoni, MS; Nancy Bill, MPH; Stephanie Bryn, MPH; Lynda Doll, PhD; Susan Hardman, Carolyn Fowler, MPH, PhD; Mariana Garrettson, MPH; Julie Gibbs-Long; Reneé Johnson, MSPH. PhD; Lloyd Potter, MPH, PhD; Corinne Peek-Asa, PhD; Julie Ross, MPH; Tom Songer, PhD; Amber Williams, MPH

Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: Colorado State University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Iowa, University of Pittsburgh, Education Development Center, Children’s Safety Network, Baltimore County Department of Health, New York State Department of Health, Oklahoma State Department of Health, Indian Health Service, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Funding: Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association

Preventing Violence through Education, Networking, and Technical Assistance (PREVENT).

PREVENT , a program of the National Training Initiative for Injury and Violence Prevention (NTI) has completed its third year of program activities. The project’s mission is to enhance capacity nationally of individual practitioners and their organizations to engage in the primary prevention of violence.

In 2006, the PREVENT program continued to provide training and coaching through a variety of classroom and distance learning modalities. For the first time this year, a Child Maltreatment Institute was conducted and a workshop was also conducted by PREVENT faculty at the Morehouse School of Medicine’s Annual Youth Violence Prevention Conference. PREVENT also sponsored a free Web conference on involving youth in violence prevention as well as hosted its first video conference entitled Getting to Prevention: Tools for Planning with participants from a range of agencies involved in violence prevention. The video conference was supported by the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR), and IPRC. The University of Pittsburgh Center for Injury Research and Control (CIRCL) and the Colorado Injury Control Research Center (CICRC) at Colorado State University, hosted the videoconference in their states as did IPRC.

In addition to real-time training activities, PREVENT has developed additional distance learning modules on the following violence specific topics: youth violence, suicide, child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, and sexual violence. These are available on the PREVENT web site (www.prevent.unc.edu) along with three short self-paced modules on the public health approach developed last year.

Finally, the PREVENT Research and Evaluation team has planned and implemented detailed evaluations of both the PREVENT Institutes and Workshops to assess process issues. These issues include participant satisfaction with the trainings and training impact on participant attitudes and behaviors. Feedback from participants is integrated into the program planning process to continually improve the PREVENT trainings.

The PREVENT Steering Committee met to examine current strengths and weaknesses of the program and to generate ideas for creating a viable future for PREVENT.

Organizationally, the PREVENT program transitioned this year from the partnership with the UNC NC Institute for Public Health to be fully operated by IPRC. As a result, the program team was reconfigured and new staff hired with expertise in training, program operations and evaluation.

Key Personnel: Carol W. Runyan, MPH, PhD; Tamera Coyne-Beasley, MD, MPH; Desmond Runyan, MD, DrPH; Sandra L. Martin, PhD; Karl Umble, PhD, MPH; Michael Yonas, DrPH, MPH; Andrés Villaveces, PhD, MPH; Phyllis Fleming, PhD; J’Ingrid Mathis, MS; Liz Knight, MSW; Johnny Lee, MA; Karen Strazza Moore, MPH; Jessica Zakrewski

Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association, UNC School of Public Health, UNC School of Medicine, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, NC Institute for Public Health

IPRC Seminar Series. This seminar series provides an opportunity for UNC faculty, staff, students, and the community at large to learn about the latest findings from injury research being conducted on and beyond the UNC campus. The seminars covered a variety of injury topics including: juvenile fire setting, women’s sports and exercise, interrelationship of multiple factors and safety outcomes in organizations, intimate partner violence survivors and interaction with emergency room nurses, improving lateral stability to reduce adult falls, effects of strength training and posture on injury during sports and recreational activities.

Scholars from other agencies, highly regarded nationally and internationally for their expertise, accounted for six of the eight seminars presented during this period. Two seminars were devoted to five students (four projects) who had received grants through the Center’s Student Small Grants program. In addition to the regular seminars, there was one visiting scholar, Dr. Lorann Stallones, Director of the Colorado Injury Control Research Center who spent an extended time meeting with faculty and students.

Key Personnel: Karen Demby, PhD; J’Ingrid Mathis, MS; Carol W. Runyan, MPH, PhD

Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: None

Funding: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control

Contact: Karen Demby, PhD

karen_demby@med.unc.edu

2006 Patricia F. Waller Lecture. The 3rd Annual Patricia F. Waller Lecture featured the presentation Highway Safety, Public Health and Human Behavior by Dr. Lindsay Griffin, III, former director of the Center for Transportation Safety at the Texas Transportation Institute. Dr. Griffin also met with faculty, staff, and students during his stay. Prior lectures and lecturers: Dr. Susan P. Baker, founding director, Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy and Dr. Alan Williams from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

This lecture is held in memory of Dr. Patricia Fossum Waller, founding director of the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center. Dr. Waller also served at the UNC Highway Safety Research Center and received training for her graduate degree at the UNC-CH Department of Psychology. The lecture is sponsored by IPRC, The UNC Highway Safety Research Center, and the Department of Psychology.

Key personnel: Karen Demby, PhD; J’Ingrid Mathis, MS; Carol W. Runyan, MPH, PhD; Karen Gil, PhD; David Harkey, P.E.; Jenny Cook; Carrie Johnston; Katy Jones

Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: UNC Highway Safety Research Center , UNC Department of Psychology

Funding: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control,

Patricia F. Waller Endowment

Contact: Karen Demby, PhD

karen_demby@med.unc.edu

15th Annual International Course on Transportation and Road Safety. This seven day course was sponsored by the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Program (TRIPP) of the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India, and taught by Dr. Shrikant Bangdiwala December 4-10, 2006.

Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: None

Instructor: Shrikant Bangdiwala, PhD

Contact: Shrikant Bangdiwala, PhD

kant@unc.edu


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IPRC is open to new opportunities for expanding our distance and continuing education capacities and is currently serving as the lead site for the National Training Initiative for Injury and Violence Prevention (NTI) and PREVENT, a violence prevention training effort and a component of NTI. Through these initiatives and other training activities, IPRC plays a central role in bridging research to practice and building the injury and violence prevention infrastructure. Injury and Violence As Public Health Problems (HBHE 725, MHCH 725, EPID 695). This three-credit course is offered yearly in the UNC School of Public Health Graduate School. The course considers the causes and consequences of traumatic injury within developmental, social, and economic contexts, and dilemmas in injury research and prevention. Injuries associated with transportation, violence, and the home and occupational environments are included. Course Instructors: Carol W. Runyan, MPH, PhD; Jonathan Kotch, MD, MPH Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: None Funding: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, UNC School of Public Health Contact: Carol W. Runyan, MPH, PhD carol_runyan@unc.edu National Training Initiative for Injury and Violence Prevention (NTI). Now in its sixth year, the National Training Initiative for Injury and Violence Prevention (NTI), a project of the Joint Committee on Infrastructure Development, is a collaboration between the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) and the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association (STIPDA). The purpose of NTI is to reduce mortality and morbidity from injury in the United States through enhancement of the training infrastructure for state, local and tribal health departments and their diverse partners. Major activities for 2006 include ongoing dissemination of the Core Competencies for Injury and Violence Prevention; continued collaboration with the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control to develop evidence-based bulletins that will serve as a companion product to an injury and violence prevention book entitled Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention; and completion of a strategic planning process to outline future directions and activities. Key Personnel: Carol W. Runyan, MPH, PhD (Joint Committee Co-Chair); Shelli Stephens-Stidham (Joint Committee Co-Chair); J’Ingrid Mathis, MS; Emily Johnson, MPH; Marilena Amoni, MS; Nancy Bill, MPH; Stephanie Bryn, MPH; Lynda Doll, PhD; Susan Hardman, Carolyn Fowler, MPH, PhD; Mariana Garrettson, MPH; Julie Gibbs-Long; Reneé Johnson, MSPH. PhD; Lloyd Potter, MPH, PhD; Corinne Peek-Asa, PhD; Julie Ross, MPH; Tom Songer, PhD; Amber Williams, MPH Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: Colorado State University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Iowa, University of Pittsburgh, Education Development Center, Children’s Safety Network, Baltimore County Department of Health, New York State Department of Health, Oklahoma State Department of Health, Indian Health Service, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Funding: Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association Contact: J’Ingrid Mathis, MS jcmathis@unc.edu Preventing Violence through Education, Networking, and Technical Assistance (PREVENT). PREVENT , a program of the National Training Initiative for Injury and Violence Prevention (NTI) has completed its third year of program activities. The project’s mission is to enhance capacity nationally of individual practitioners and their organizations to engage in the primary prevention of violence. In 2006, the PREVENT program continued to provide training and coaching through a variety of classroom and distance learning modalities. For the first time this year, a Child Maltreatment Institute was conducted and a workshop was also conducted by PREVENT faculty at the Morehouse School of Medicine’s Annual Youth Violence Prevention Conference. PREVENT also sponsored a free Web conference on involving youth in violence prevention as well as hosted its first video conference entitled Getting to Prevention: Tools for Planning with participants from a range of agencies involved in violence prevention. The video conference was supported by the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR), and IPRC. The University of Pittsburgh Center for Injury Research and Control (CIRCL) and the Colorado Injury Control Research Center (CICRC) at Colorado State University, hosted the videoconference in their states as did IPRC. In addition to real-time training activities, PREVENT has developed additional distance learning modules on the following violence specific topics: youth violence, suicide, child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, and sexual violence. These are available on the PREVENT web site (www.prevent.unc.edu) along with three short self-paced modules on the public health approach developed last year. Finally, the PREVENT Research and Evaluation team has planned and implemented detailed evaluations of both the PREVENT Institutes and Workshops to assess process issues. These issues include participant satisfaction with the trainings and training impact on participant attitudes and behaviors. Feedback from participants is integrated into the program planning process to continually improve the PREVENT trainings. The PREVENT Steering Committee met to examine current strengths and weaknesses of the program and to generate ideas for creating a viable future for PREVENT. Organizationally, the PREVENT program transitioned this year from the partnership with the UNC NC Institute for Public Health to be fully operated by IPRC. As a result, the program team was reconfigured and new staff hired with expertise in training, program operations and evaluation. Key Personnel: Carol W. Runyan, MPH, PhD; Tamera Coyne-Beasley, MD, MPH; Desmond Runyan, MD, DrPH; Sandra L. Martin, PhD; Karl Umble, PhD, MPH; Michael Yonas, DrPH, MPH; Andrés Villaveces, PhD, MPH; Phyllis Fleming, PhD; J’Ingrid Mathis, MS; Liz Knight, MSW; Johnny Lee, MA; Karen Strazza Moore, MPH; Jessica Zakrewski Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association, UNC School of Public Health, UNC School of Medicine, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, NC Institute for Public Health Funding: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Contact: Karen Strazza Moore, MPH ksmoore@email.unc.edu IPRC Seminar Series. This seminar series provides an opportunity for UNC faculty, staff, students, and the community at large to learn about the latest findings from injury research being conducted on and beyond the UNC campus. The seminars covered a variety of injury topics including: juvenile fire setting, women’s sports and exercise, interrelationship of multiple factors and safety outcomes in organizations, intimate partner violence survivors and interaction with emergency room nurses, improving lateral stability to reduce adult falls, effects of strength training and posture on injury during sports and recreational activities. Scholars from other agencies, highly regarded nationally and internationally for their expertise, accounted for six of the eight seminars presented during this period. Two seminars were devoted to five students (four projects) who had received grants through the Center’s Student Small Grants program. In addition to the regular seminars, there was one visiting scholar, Dr. Lorann Stallones, Director of the Colorado Injury Control Research Center who spent an extended time meeting with faculty and students. Key Personnel: Karen Demby, PhD; J’Ingrid Mathis, MS; Carol W. Runyan, MPH, PhD Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: None Funding: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Contact: Karen Demby, PhD karen_demby@med.unc.edu *2006 Patricia F. Waller Lecture.* The 3rd Annual Patricia F. Waller Lecture featured the presentation Highway Safety, Public Health and Human Behavior by Dr. Lindsay Griffin, III, former director of the Center for Transportation Safety at the Texas Transportation Institute. Dr. Griffin also met with faculty, staff, and students during his stay. Prior lectures and lecturers: Dr. Susan P. Baker, founding director, Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy and Dr. Alan Williams from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. This lecture is held in memory of Dr. Patricia Fossum Waller, founding director of the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center. Dr. Waller also served at the UNC Highway Safety Research Center and received training for her graduate degree at the UNC-CH Department of Psychology. The lecture is sponsored by IPRC, The UNC Highway Safety Research Center, and the Department of Psychology. Key personnel: Karen Demby, PhD; J’Ingrid Mathis, MS; Carol W. Runyan, MPH, PhD; Karen Gil, PhD; David Harkey, P.E.; Jenny Cook; Carrie Johnston; Katy Jones Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: UNC Highway Safety Research Center , UNC Department of Psychology Funding: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Patricia F. Waller Endowment Contact: Karen Demby, PhD karen_demby@med.unc.edu 15th Annual International Course on Transportation and Road Safety. This seven day course was sponsored by the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Program (TRIPP) of the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India, and taught by Dr. Shrikant Bangdiwala December 4-10, 2006. Other Organizations or Institutions Represented: None Instructor: Shrikant Bangdiwala, PhD Contact: Shrikant Bangdiwala, PhD kant@unc.edu
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