SAVIR Training and Infrastructure Committee

The objectives of the SAVIR Training and Infrastructure Committee (TIC) are to address the professional and academic training needs of SAVIR members as well as to serve as a resource for the training needs of current and future researchers and public health professionals working in the fields of violence and injury prevention and control.

The SAVIR Training and Infrastructure Committee (TIC) meets by conference call once a month to plan activities related to professional and academic training.

Training and Infrastructure Committee Charges:

• Offer research seminars and conferences addressing the scope and multi-disciplinary nature of the field.
• Oversee the development of joint SAVIR/STIPDA training-related activities.

• SAVIR Member Needs Assessment Survey
  
• Teaching Materials & Syllabi
  
• TIC Activities
  
• Link to Core Competencies
  
• Upcoming TIC Sponsored Events
  
• Past Webinars 

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SAVIR Member Needs Assessment Survey:

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  • SAVIR Member Needs Assessment Survey can be found here:
    
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 Teaching Materials & Syllabi 

•  Course Listings & Syllabi are available here and can be viewed by:
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  • Topic
  • Audience
    
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TIC Activities

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Links to Core Competencies

• http://www.injuryed.org/competencies.htm 
  
• http://www.astho.org/pubs/CoreCompetenciesSelfAssessment.pdf
  
• http://www.stipda.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=41 
  
• http://www.ihs.gov/medicalprograms/portlandinjury/Worddocs/Training/Competencies.pdf

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Upcoming TIC sponsored events:

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 Information about Past Webinars

SAVIR regularly offers free online, live Webinars presenting timely and high-quality injury control research addressing a spectrum of research topics for both intentional and unintentional injuries.

Introduction to Teach-VIP E-Learning Webinar - Recording Link
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Presented by:
David Meddings, MD, MHSc, FRCP(C), Medical Officer, Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, World Health Organization
Carmen Aldinger, PhD, MPH, Associate Center Director, Health and Human Development Division, Education Development Center, Inc.


Injury Evaluation: What to do when it gets complicated - Recording link
Thinking about Randomized Control Trials
Tuesday January 26, 2010
Presented by: 
Harry Shannon PhD, MSc,  McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Injury Evaluation:  What it looks like on the ground - Recording Link
Side by side examples of two injury evaluations and lessons learned
December 10, 2009
Presented by:
Carri Casteel, PhD, MPH, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Epidemiology; Injury Prevention Research Center
Beth Ebel, MD, MSc, MPH, University of Washington School of Medicine; Director, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center

Injury Evaluation: What's in it for you - Recording Link
An introduction to concepts and practical issues in evaluation of community-based initiatives
November 16, 2009
Presented by:
Carolyn Cumpsty Fowler, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Nursing; Director, Injury Prevention Program, Baltimore County Department of Health
Nancy Thompson, PhD, MPH, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education and of Epidemiology

The above series was sponsored by SAVIR and co-sponsored by STIPDA and IPRC.  

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SAVIR  sponsored the following webinar along with STIPDA and the Center for Injury Research and Control at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Neurosurgery:   

Preventing Motor Vehicle Crashes among Young Drivers
February 11th, 2009
PDFs:
Morton-Simons_Part 1_021109
Shope_Part 2_021109
Shope_Part 3_021109
Morton-Simons_Part 4_021109 

Presented by:
Bruce Simons-Morton, EdD, MPH, Chief, Prevention Research Branch, Div. of Epidemiology, Statistics & Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD  

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Jean Thatcher Shope, PhD, Research Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education, Associate Director, Transportation Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI

  

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Our Training and Infrastructure Development Committee was pleased to co-host the following webinar along with the Center for Injury Research and Control at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Neurosurgery: 

Getting Published in Scientific Literature ~ The Editor's View
Click here for Recording
April 7th, 2008

Presented by:
Frederick Rivara, MD, MPH, Editor, Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA

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