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Join the Mentorship Program Today!
Please email:
Dr. Sheryl Heron sheron@emory.edu
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| Brown Bags are Back!!!! |
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Elder Abuse
with Dr. Payne Oct. 15, 2009
12-1pm
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Greetings!
Welcome! The Emory Center for Injury Control (ECIC) is happy to introduce our 1st quarterly newsletter. We look forward to keeping you informed on our current research and programs and give you the highlights from the quarterly meeting.
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We received the Injury Control Research Center Grant from the CDC!
Thank you to everyone who came to the Quarterly Meeting on September 17th!
- Open Access Journal will allow us to publish ECIC member work, particularly research on
translating injury prevention into practice
- Training & Education Committee
- Scientific Oversight Committee
- Community Relevancy Committee:Research to Practice
If you didn't have a chance to sign-up, there are various opportunities to become involved. Email Shakiyla Smith at lrsmit3@emory.edu to join any of the above Committees.
Mark your calendar for future events...
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| Training & Education |
Welcome
to the Training/Education Corner of the ECIC! We look forward to an exciting
year of growth and opportunity. We have set a few goals for the upcoming year
and we need your participation to ensure a successful year.
The
good news is we started last year with a very successful brown Bag luncheon
series. The series began last year with a look at Intimate Partner Violence in
October and ended with a discussion of safety for the summer at the Poison
Center. This year, we will expand the brown bag from a quarterly activity to
every other month. We are delighted to begin this year's Brown Bag in October
with a focus on Elder Maltreatment. We need your expertise and willingness to
participate in upcoming Brown Bag events. Dates will be the 2nd or 3rd Thursday
every other month so mark your calendars and plan to attend.
We
will launch the Mentor/Mentee program aimed to assist junior faculty in their
growth and development in the field of Injury Control and Prevention. To be
successful, we need senior faculty to agree to be mentors as well as
participation by junior faculty. The program will be across schools and
disciplines. The kick-off luncheon date will be February 24th at 12pm. Dr. Nadine Kaslow and myself will be talking about Mentor/Mentee expectations and how to develop this important relationship.
As
the ECIC grows, we will need your assistance to create a certificate program
which will allow undergraduate and masters level students across our
participating universities to obtain a certificate in injury prevention. While
we are in the formation stage of creating the certificate program, we will be
seeking expertise from faculty at area universities to bring the Certification
program to fruition.
As
the year progresses, we look forward to sharing knowledge and expertise during
this very exciting time.
Dr. Sheryl
L. Heron
ECIC Associate Director for Training & Education
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| Research |
There
are three important activities underway related to overarching research issues:
- ECIC Faculty Seed
Grant Program
The ECIC has created a multi-disciplinary Faculty Seed
Grant Program to facilitate and promote innovative, preliminary, and
interdisciplinary research activities to yield future high-impact injury
prevention research. The four categories of grants (described below) are
designed to provide incentives and support for researchers to work
collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams and community members on projects
that can lead to larger grant proposals related to violence and unintentional
injury prevention or that support the preparation of a larger grant proposal.
The Seed grants range in amounts but all reflect total costs (covering both
direct and indirect costs, where applicable) for projects lasting one year or
less.
The purpose of the program is to support pilot studies,
data collection, secondary analyses, and other research activities that are
aligned with the CDC's Injury Research Agenda, and that will likely result in the future submission of a larger grant
proposal. In particular, priority areas for the Seed Grant Program pertain to
research that involves vulnerable populations or aspects of research
translation.
One-year Pilot Grants (up to $20,000) - One to three
awards per
year will be provided to support pilot data collection and application
for large grants.
Grant Application Awards ($5,000) - Two awards per
year will be provided to faculty for academic/ summer release to incentivize
the development and submission of grant applications.
Community-based, Capacity-building and Translation
Research Grants (up to $20,000) - One award per year will be provided to a
researcher to partner with a community organization to conduct pilot
collaborative capacity-building and translation research. A faculty member and
community member will serve as Co-PIs all subsequent on this grant.
Capacity-building may include training and other
activities designed to strengthen an organization's or community's ability to
adapt and apply a public health intervention.
Cooperative Grant ($20,000) -One award per year will
be provided to support collaborative research projects between faculty from at
least two of the different participating universities or colleges. Priority
will be given to projects that involve one of the Center's Historically Black
Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and that involve seeking larger external
funding.
Download RFA from ECIC Website
******* Electronic proposals are due by November 15, 2009 ********
(Please email LRSMIT3@emory.edu)
- The Scientific Oversight Committee
Affiliate Faculty members who are interested in
process and outcome evaluation as well as strategic planning and other aspects
of research administration are welcome and encouraged to participate in the
scientific oversight committee. The committee held a few meetings last year
during the planning and grant submission phase and will gear up to work on all
the new exciting issues pertaining to the fully funded ECIC.
The evaluation plan is underway and will be closely
linked to the logic model that was developed as part of the grant proposal.
Next steps will be to determine appropriate indicators for the target outcome
measures and how to best obtain useful data to assess these indicators.
Dr. Monica Swahn
ECIC Associate Director for Research
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Outreach
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Department of Community Health
Injury Prevention Program
- The former Georgia Department
of Human Resources as of July 1, 2009 functions as 3 state
agencies:
Department
of Human Services (includes the Division of Aging Services and the
Division of Family and Children's Services) website
Department
of Community Health in addition to Medicare and Medicaid
administration, absorbed the Division of Public Health (there are
now 2 Divisions where there had been one; Division of Public Health and
Division of Emergency Preparedness and Response as well as a more
centralized administrative function) website
Department
of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities is
responsible for much of the work of the former Division of Mental
Health, Addictive Diseases and Developmental Disabilities, previously
organized under DHR. website- The Community Relevancy Committee:
Research to Practice is responsible for connecting researchers and
practitioners of injury prevention in Georgia. Jim Griffin and Lisa
Dawson are recruiting at least 5 members from the intentional areas of
injury and 5 members from the unintentional areas of injury. The
committee will meet 4 times this year and 2 times a year in the
future. The goal is to prioritize and make recommendations regarding
research that will help with key decision points in on-going
programs. Volunteers to this committee are welcome, please contact
Lisa at lddawson@dhr.state.ga.us
- The Georgia Injury Prevention Advisory Committee
meets immediately after the ECIC quarterly meeting. This group is exists
to advise the Georgia Department of Community Health's Injury Prevention
Program (IPP). For a summary of activities of the IPP please see website
Lisa Dawson
ECIC Associate Director for Outreach
ECIC is the research arm for this 70
member coalition of local violence prevention programs, organizations, and
practitioners. Check out new MAVPP accomplishments:
- The MAVPP
partners appointed their first executive director of the group as a
temporary measure to keep MAVPP activities moving forward. These
activities include a City-Wide Non-Violent Music Competition and a Youth
Leaders in Action program for high school students. Identifying
an executive director was a tremendous achievement on the part of the
members. Many thanks to Mr. Damian Blair who will serve as the first
executive director in the history of the organization. We are
growing up.
- Mr.
Mikhail Abdulbaqee, Executive Director of the Genesis Prevention Coalition
has offered to serve as the Treasurer of the MAVPP. Mr. Abdulbaqee
brings a wealth of community-based organization experience to this role,
and we appreciate his support.
- Wholistic
Stress Control Institute (WSCI) will be celebrating its 25th anniversary
of the organization's existence this weekend. Hats off to
WSCI! Congratulations!
- Menyuan
Smith is conducting an evaluation workshop with the Evaluation Practice
organization, and she has done a stellar job of providing the direction
and leadership for the modification of the organizational structure
for the MAVPP. We will be moving to quarterly
full-member meetings and monthly major committee meetings.
- Dr.
Stanley Huey of the Department of Psychology at the University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, CA
presented on his work with gang-involved youth in Los Angeles.
- Gwendolyn
Sands, Executive Director for Visions Unlimited presented on the
topic Creating Civic Organizations
that Last at the
Loudermilk Center, Annie Casey Neighborhood Summit.
- The MAVPP
organization is sending strategic violence prevention recommendations for
the Atlanta region to the Atlanta City Council members and the mayor and
governor's offices.
ECIC Associate Director for Outreach
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Worldwide
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The 4th Milestones of
a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention
The Emory Center for Injury Control is one of three
U.S.based "Collaborating Centers" for injury control, violence
prevention, and emergency health with the World Health Organization
(WHO). On September 17th -18th, the WHO held its "4th Milestones of
a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention" at its headquarters in Geneva,
Switzerland. Over 200 participants from around the world attended the
meeting, including various government officials, funding agencies,
non-governmental organization staff, and researchers. Shakiyla Smith attended on behalf of the ECIC. The meeting included the
following highlights:
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Keynotes from international dignitaries and
researchers regarding innovative violence prevention programs
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Case studies of current global violence
prevention interventions and success stories
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Focus and discussion of social determinants of
health that affect violence rates and outcomes
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Small working group discussions around key
violence topics, with a focus on priority and strategy setting
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Publication launch of "Preventing Child
Maltreatment: a guide to taking action and generating evidence" and
"Violence Prevention: the evidence" - a pithy series of monographs
synthesizing the evidence around current violence prevention interventions
L. Shakiyla Smith
ECIC Deputy Director
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With the Injury Control Research Center Grant, the ECIC will flourish as a multi-institution consortium bridging the gap between science and practice.
Drawing on the strengths of our partners, together we aim to reduce the burden of violence and unintentional injuries throughout metro Atlanta.
Thank you for your support, interest, and continued participation. We look forward to exciting new programs and innovative research!
Sincerely,
Dr. Debra Houry, MD, MPH
Director of Emory Center for Injury Control |
| Next Meeting: November 5, 2009 12-1pm |
Location: The Faculty Office Building (FOB)
Room 101
49 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive, SE
Atlanta, GA 30303
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