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2010 Student Small Grants Call for Proposals

The UNC Injury Prevention Research Center awards competitive small grants to graduate and professional students, medical residents, and fellows for research on injury and violence topics:

• Descriptions of unintentional injury patterns and their causes (e.g., falls, drowning, burs, poisonings, sport or recreational injury, occupational injury, motor vehicle crashes, etc.)
• The causes, consequences, and/or prevention of intentional injury (e.g., child abuse and neglect, intimate partner violence, suicide, homicide, youth violence, firearm injury, etc.)
• Injury resulting from natural or man-made disasters (e.g., floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, war, terrorism, etc.)
• Evaluations of injury prevention programs, rehabilitation, or treatment protocols
• Health service delivery for victims of injury
• The biomechanics of injury

Important Dates:

Letter of Intent Due: February 1, 2010 by 5:00 pm
Note: The project idea/topic and possible title can be sent in a letter or email message. The Letter of Intent is not evaluated or screened. It is only for planning appropriately for the review process.

Proposal Due: February 14, 2010 by 5:00 pm

See the following links for additional information on the guidelines for submitting applications and a flyer to help IPRC promote the Student Small Grants Program.

Guidelines for Submission
Flyer

Letters, applications, and inquiries may be directed to:
Karen Strazza Moore, MPH, Assistant Director for Education and Outreach
UNC Injury Prevention Research Center
Bank of American Plaza, Suite 500
137 East Franklin Street, CB #7507, Chapel Hill, NC
919-843-6618 (P)/919-966-0466(F), ksmoore@email.unc.edu

HBHE/MHCH 725 AND EPID 783 -- SPRING 2010

TIME: Mondays 2:30-5:00 PM

INJURY AND VIOLENCE AS PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEMS

Instructors:

Carol Runyan, PhD (HBHE/EPID) & Jonathan Kotch, MD, MPH (MCH)

2008 Student Small Grant Reciepients

IPRC is pleased to present Student Small Grants for 2008 to:

Effects of an age-specific ACL injury prevention program in pediatric athletes
Lindsay DeStefano, MA, ATC, Exercise and Sport Science

Are preschool injury patterns useful in the identification of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?
Sudha Raman, MS, Department of Epidemiology