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Board of Directors
Frederick Rivara
Frederick Rivara, MD, MPH     Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH, is the holder of the Children's Guild Association Endowed Chair in Pediatrics, Professor of Pediatrics and adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington. He is chief of the Division of General Pediatrics and vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine. Dr. Rivara earned a bachelor's...
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Centers
Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center
The Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center (PCVPC) Vision: The Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center (PCVPC) will create safer communities by reducing the number of violent injuries and deaths in targeted communities in Philadelphia.    Mission:  To design, implement and evaluate programs that enhance resiliency and reduce the frequency and impact of...
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Facts
Age Disparity

Young persons 15-24 years of age had the highest initial emergency department visit rate for injury in 2004-2005, 1,484.8 visits per 10,000 population – more than twice the rate for adults 65-74 years of age, who had the lowest rate, 653.9 visits per 10,000 population. 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

Leading Mechanisms

Falls accounted for 26% of initial emergency department visits for injuries while injuries resulting from being struck by or against an object or a person accounted for 13% and motor vehicle traffic accidents accounted for 12% in 2004-2005. 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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Emergency medicine and injury research:  challenges and opportunities
Brendan G. Carr, Michael J. Mello
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Michael J. Mello and Corinne Peek-Asa
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Help put 'Injury" Prevention and Care back into Healthcare Reform
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Child Injury around the World: a Global Research Agenda for Child Injury Prevention
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Core Competencies for Injury and  Violence Prevention
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