School Safety Zone

Facts

Gender
At every age, injury death rates for males are higher than for females. The mortality sex ratio is highest, at four to one, for young people in their 20’s, and is lowest for children under 11 years of age (less than 2 to 1). Source: CDC/NCHSBergen G,Chen LH, Warner M, Fingerhut LA. Injury in the United States: 2007. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2008



Committee Chairs and Council Chairs
Advocacy and Public Policy Committee

Susan Scavo Gallagher, MPH, Co-Chair
Tufts University School of Medicine
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: (617) 636-3539 Fax: (617) 636-4017
Email: sue.gallagher@tufts.edu


Billie Weiss, MPH, Co-Chair
UCLA School of Public Health
10990 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 900
Los Angeles, CA   90024
Phone:  (310) 312-9404
Email:  bpweiss@ucla.edu

Conference and Programs Committee

Keshia Pollack, PhD, MPH, Chair
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
624 Broadway, 5th floor
Baltimore, MD   21205-1996
Phone: (410) 502-6272
Email: kpollack@jhsph.edu

Organizational Development Committee
Membership Subcommittee

Douglas J. Wiebe, PhD, Co-Chair
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Room 902, Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021
Phone: (215) 746-0149
Email: dwiebe@exchange.upenn.edu

Carri Casteel, PhD, Co-Chair
UNC Injury Prevention Research Center
University of North Carolina
137 E. Franklin Street, Suite 500, CB 7505
Chapel Hill, NC   27599-7505
Phone: (919) 843-3529
Email: ccasteel@email.unc.edu

Sustainability Subcommittee

Vacant, Chair

Science and Research Committee

Joel Fein, MD, MPH, Co-Chair
Philadelphia  Collaborative Violence Prevention Center
3535 Market Street, Suite 1150
Philadelphia, PA   19104
Phone: (215) 590-1944
Email:  fein@email.chop.edu

Bernadette Callahan Hohl, MPH, Co-Chair
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Room 937, Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021
Phone: (215) 746-4238
Email: bachohl@gmail.com

Training and Infrastructure Committee

Mariana Garrettson, MPH
UNC Injury Prevention Research Center
137 E. Franklin Street, Suite 500
Chapel Hill, NC   27599
Phone: (570) 504-9622
Email: marianag@email.unc.edu

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Nominations Committee

Andrea Gielen, ScD, ScM
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Hampton House, 5th Floor
624 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD   21205-1996
Phone: (410) 955-2397
Email: agielen@jhsph.edu

 

Council of Centers

Carol Runyan, PhD, MPH
Colorado School of Public Health
Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education and Research
Anschutz Medical Campus
13001 E. 17th Place, MS B119
Bldg 500, Room W3143
Aurora, CO   80045
Phone: (303) 724-6499
Email: carol.runyan@ucdenver.edu