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International ActivitiesFaculty and staff of IPRC participate in international activities that are varied in type. These activities range from participating in collaborative research efforts, to technical assistance, and training by individuals from the Center. Some recent activities are listed below. UNC IPRC Named Affiliate Center for Safe Communities UNC IPRC has become an Affiliate Safe Community Support Centre of the Division of Social medicine of the Karolinska Institutet. Under the agreement, UNC IPRC and the Karolinska Institutet will work together to seek funds and design strategies to evaluate the Safe Communities Programs and to develop effective training in violence prevention. The Safe Communities programs were created and have been managed by the Karolinska Institutet for several decades. UNC IPRC’s expertise on evaluation and training will be applied through several collaborative strategies. Some efforts will focus on using the PREVENT model for training while further evaluation strategies will be developed through the work of Dr. Kant Bangdiwala, Andrés Villaveces, and Carol Runyan. The photo below shows IPRC Deputy Director, Dr. Andrés Villiaveces (left) with Dr. Leif Svandström signing a memorandum of understanding for the two organizations. Announcement in the Safe Communities Newsletter (PDF)
The 9th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion The 9th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion was held in Merida, Mexico, March 15-18, 2008. Drs Shrikant Bangdiwala, Tamera Coyne-Beasley, Carol Runyan, and Andrés Villaveces, all IPRC Core faculty members, gave presentations at the conference. The following is a summary of their activities. A pre-conference workshop was conducted by Drs. Shrikant Bangdiwala, research associate professor, biostatistics, and Andrés Villaveces, research assistant professor, epidemiology. This day-long workshop, Methodological considerations for injury prevention and safety promotion research was designed for graduate students, young researchers and practitioners of public health. The goals were to acquaint participants with research methods specific to injury control and safety promotion; increase the ability of participants from multiple backgrounds to work together to carry out successful projects; and increase the capacity for research in this area. Dr. Tamera Coyne-Beasley, associate professor, pediatrics and social medicine presented at the conference. Her paper was entitled: Delinquency & substance abuse among early adolescents who self-report neglect from the LONGSCAN/NEGLECT dataset.
As part of a special session, Dr. Villaveces was a member of the Panel on Advances in Behavioral Approaches to Injury and Violence Prevention. This panel was moderated by Dr. Gielen. Dr. Villaveces’s presentation for this panel was entitled: Behavioral modifications aimed at enhancing primary prevention of violence through the PREVENT Institute. In addition to this panel discussion, he presented The evolution of injury prevention concepts from the 19th to the 21st century as part of the program Capacity Building-Development and Infrastructure with moderator Dr. David Meddings.
Drs. Michael Peck and S. Bangdiwala are collaborating with the NC Jaycee Burn Center to determine the correlation between economic indicators and mortality rates in Eastern European countries such as Hungary and Poland.
Drs. Carol Runyan, D. Runyan, and Kevin Guskiewicz are collaborating with the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation to develop new research on: youth labor (C. Runyan), traumatic brain injury in young children (D. Runyan) and concussions in hockey (K. Guskiewicz) as well as the implementation of a graduate student exchange program between the U. S. and Canada.
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