Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research: Welcome to SAVIR

Board of Directors
Dawn Comstock
Dawn Comstock is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Injury Research and Policy, Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Ohio State University, College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and College of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology. She has experience working in public health at both the national and state level as well as in academia. She has co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed...
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy was founded in 1987. The Center'smulti-disciplinary faculty conduct research on unintentional and intentional injury problems as well as primary prevention, acute care and rehabilitation. We are dedicated to: • high quality research and its application to programs and policies that...
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Motor vehicle traffic fatalities are the leading mechanism of death for most ages. Poisonings were the leading mechanism for persons 34-53 years of age, and falls were the leading mechanism for those 73 years of age and over. Source: CDC/NCHS, Bergen G,Chen LH, Warner M, Fingerhut LA. Injury in the United States: 2007. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2008

Death rates from unintentional injuries and suicides are highest in the most rural counties while homicide rates are highest in the most urban counties. Source: CDC/NCHS, Bergen G,Chen LH, Warner M, Fingerhut LA. Injury in the United States: 2007. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2008

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SAVIR's Official Journal is Injury Prevention, a member of the BMJ Publishing Group.

From SAVIR in Injury Prevention

Shannon Frattaroli, Nathan Yee, Keshia M. Pollack, et al.
December 2009 Issue

Michael J. Mello and Corinne Peek-Asa
October 2009 Issue

Help put 'Injury" Prevention and Care back into Healthcare Reform
August 2009 Issue

Child Injury around the World: a Global Research Agenda for Child Injury Prevention
June 2009 Issue

Core Competencies for Injury and Violence Prevention
April 2009 Issue

SAVIR's Injury Prevention Articles Archives