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Board of Directors
Keshia Pollack
Keshia M. Pollack, PhD, MPH joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2006 as an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management and the Leon S. Robertson Faculty Development Chair in Injury Prevention. Dr. Pollack is a core faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health,...
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Centers
Emory Center for Injury Control
Jointly supported by Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health and the Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, the Emory Center for Injury Control is dedicated to reducing the health and economic impact of injuries in Atlanta, throughout Georgia, and worldwide. Because effective injury control requires the expertise of many disciplines, the Center spans multiple departments and...
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Facts
Body Region

Extremity injuries accounted for the greatest proportion of injuries classified by body region ranging from 48% in hospitals to 50% in emergency departments to 63% reported in a household survey that asks about medically-attended injuries. 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

Ethnicity

In 2004-2005 among people under 25 years of age, non-Hispanic whites had higher injury episode rates than did Hispanics and non-Hispanic blacks. For those aged 25-64 years, injury episode rates for non-Hispanic whites and for non-Hispanic blacks were similar, and were higher than rates for Hispanics. Source: CDC/NCHS, Injury in the United States, 2007 (in press).

National Institute of Justice
Funding Opportunities

 

Post-doctoral Training in Pediatric
Injury Research
UNIVERSITY of WASHINGTON
Harborview Injury Prevention
and Research Center
Seattle, WA
Funded through a
U.S. National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development
(NIH) T-32 Grant
Positions available for Summer, 2012

 

Safe States Alliance and SAVIR
awarded NCIPC
Cooperative Agreement
Evaluation of Core VIPPP

 

Building Careers for Research in
Child Maltreatment and
Intimate Partner Violence:
Early Career Scholar Interdisciplinary
Training Program


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Injury Prevention











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

 


From SAVIR in Injury Prevention


Lessons from the past
Leonard Paulozzi, Ann Dellinger and Linda Degutis
February 2012 Issue


The new emphasis on implementing evidence-based interventions:
the end of research or a new beginning for partnerships?
Andrea C. Gielen, Shannon Frattaroli, Michael A. Yonas,
Richard W. Sattin, and Jeff Levi
December 2011 Issue


Injury research:
a perspective from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Linda C. Degutis, Richard W. Sattin
October 2011 Issue


Distracted driving among adolescents: challenges and opportunities
Annie A. Garner, Phillip R. Fine, Crystal A. Franklin, Richard W. Sattin, and Despina Stavrinos
August 2011 Issue


Preventing bicycle-related injuries: next steps
Frederick Rivara, Richard W. Sattin
June 2011 Issue


National public health week: focus on injury prevention
Susan Abramson, Georges C. Benjamin, Richard W. Sattin, and Andrea C. Gielen
April 2011 Issue


Concussion research: a public health priority
Douglas J. Weibe, R. Dawn Comstock, and Michael L. Nance
February 2011 Issue


Global injury surveillance: opportunities and challenges
Joyce C. Pressley and Michael J. Mello
December 2010 Issue


Advancing research in youth violence prevention
to inform evidence-based policy and practice
Tamara M Haegerich, Deborah Gorman-Smith, Douglas J Wiebe, Michael Yonas
October 2010 Issue


Field triage: optimising injury outcomes through use
of a revised on-scene decision-making protocol
Vikas Kapil, Richard W. Sattin, Scott Sasser, Lisa C. McGuire, Richard Hunt
August 2010 Issue


It wouldn't hurt to walk: promoting pedestrian injury research
David A. Sleet, Keshia Pollack, Fred Rivara,
Shannon Frattaroli, Corinne Peek-Asa
June 2010 Issue



SAVIR's Injury Prevention Articles Archives



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