A Special Brown Bag!!!!!!
Violence & Vulnerability: Bringing Together Emory's Main Campus, Grady, and Downtown Emory Partners
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Please join us for a discussion about violence and vulnerability. Come to network and collaborate!
Dec. 10th, 2009
12-1pm
Faculty Office Building (FOB) Room 101
Please RSVP by Dec. 7th because lunch is provided. Email: nobolen@emory.edu
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Do you have a mentor?
Have you always wanted to mentor someone else?
Join the Faculty Mentorship Program Today!
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Kick-off Luncheon!!!
Feb. 24th, 2010
12-1pm
Faculty Office Building (FOB) Room 123
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To sign up for the program, send email to nobolen@emory.edu
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Research Workshop
Come to the half-day workshop on dissemination and implementation research for injury prevention.
Led by
Dr. James Emshoff
Department of Psychology
Georgia State University
&
Rita Noonan, PhD
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC)
When: January 29, 2010
Where: Faculty Office
Building (FOB 101)
29 Jesse Hill Jr. Dr
Atlanta, GA 30303
Time: 8-12pm
Continental breakfast will be provided
Please RSVP by Jan. 18th to nobolen@emory.edu
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Greetings!
Hello Again!!!! There are several new happenings going on with ECIC and our partners. Read below and don't forget to get involved in the many opportunities we have!!!!
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Meeting Highlights
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Scientists from the
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) presented highlights from the new 2009-2018 CDC Injury Research
Agenda.
Leaders from the following divisions presented on their sections:
- Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention
- Division of Violence Prevention
- Division of Injury Response
NCIPC's Injury Research Agenda
Our NCIPC colleagues are
interested in collaborating with faculty on papers and projects... Please
initiate collaboration by emailing Dr. Houry at dhoury@emory.edu and she will work with
Dr. Mick Ballesteros, Office of the Director at the NCIPC, to connect people
through appropriate channels.
The public comment period is now open, check out the injury and violence objectives in Healthy People 2020
Announcements:
- Seed Grant Proposals due Nov 15th,
there will be 2 Review Panels in December
- Another Brown Bag lecture coming up...
- Don't miss the Research Workshop in January
- Last chance to sign up to be a mentor or mentee
- Take advantage of the technical assistance we provide
Thank you all for a joining us!
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Training & Education
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Greetings:
As we formulate our Training & Education
Committee, I ask you to send me an email to work on this subcommittee. We have
a few initiatives and welcome input by members of ECIC. The goal is to be
multidisciplinary and represented across schools. The educational updates for
November/ December are below:
Our first Brown Bag on Elder Maltreatment by
Dr. Brian Payne was a wonderful opportunity for members of the ECIC to gather
and learn about Dr. Payne's research on Elder Mistreatment. Dr. Payne is Chair
and Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University.
His discussion, entitled "The Young Get Older and the Older Get Victimized"
examined the problems determining the extent of elder mistreatment as well as
the types of mistreatment the elderly endure.
Dr. Payne's research includes a focus on risk factors for victimization
over the life course to strategies for promoting collaboration.
Our next Brown Bag lecture is December 10th at
12pm on GRADY campus in FOB 101. It is a special opportunity for ECIC to collaborate with Emory's Vulnerability Studies and Global
Health Law & Policy Projects. The purpose of the discussion is to bring
together Emory's Main Campus with Grady and our downtown partners. There will be
several informal presentations by members of ECIC who work with vulnerable
populations at Grady. Please email me and Natasha if you would like to present
your work. RSVP's by Dec 7th
are requested as lunch will be provided.
We have 18 people
signed up to be either a faculty Mentor or Mentee. This is a great start as we
gear up for our kick-off luncheon on February 24th at 12 noon. If
you are interested in serving as a Mentor or Mentee, we are still accepting
faculty to sign up. Our hope is the program will be across disciplines and
across schools. The deadline to sign up
is January 15th. We will send out the faculty pairings prior to the
kick-off luncheon.
We have researched the classes at various institutions that would
qualify for the certificate program either on the undergraduate or the master
level. We still need ECIC members to work with us to create this program. We are seeking
expertise from faculty at area universities to bring the Certification program
to fruition.
I
wish you and your family a safe and wonderful Holiday Season and an even better
New Year.
Dr. Sheryl L. Heron
ECIC Associate Director for Training & Education
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Research
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Submit your proposals this Sunday, November 15th!!!
- ECIC Faculty Seed
Grant Program
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 and Cover Sheet from ECIC Website
Interested faculty should contact Shakiyla for more
information regarding the required coversheet and indirect rates prior to
finalizing their proposals for submission.
(Please email LRSMIT3@emory.edu)
Dr. Monica Swahn
ECIC Associate Director for Research
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Outreach
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Department of Community Health, Injury Prevention Program
- Welcomed Ina Allicott, our new
CDC PHPS fellow
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We are entering our final year of CORE funding under the current award so it
is essential that we position ourselves and our programs strategically to ensure
continued funding in the next competitive application cycle
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We anticipate an active 2010 legislative session with Injury-related policy
proposals including repeal of the seat belt exemption for pick-up trucks, texting and teen driving
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Advisory Committee member Bev Losman (SAFE KIDS Georgia) has agreed to
convene and lead a Child Injury Policy Subcommittee (CIPS)
- Researchers are encouraged to join in the
discussion about setting strategic direction for the Advisory Committee, please join us at the next Injury Advisory Committee Meeting, January 14, 2010 directly after the ECIC Quarterly Meeting
Lisa Dawson
ECIC Associate Director for Outreach
Metropolitan Atlanta Violence Prevention Partnership (MAVPP)
- The MAVPP website is coming soon!
- The 16 Barz Curriculum (a youth violence prevention curriculum based on music and empowerment principles) is being packaged and offered to community groups for a small fee. Details on how you can purchase the curriculum will be listed on our website.
Dr. James Griffin
ECIC Associate Director for Outreach
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Worldwide
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The World Health
Organization (WHO)'s Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability (VIP) section held its 19th Meeting with the Heads of WHO Collaborating Centers on Injury and Violence Prevention on Sept. 28-29th
- The meeting provided a rich opportunity to exchange information
about collaborative projects, update one another on progress in key areas, and
plan future collaborations.
- Remarks were also heard from representatives from
three centers which are in the designation process.
- A number of specific
outcomes will be followed up by VIP and Heads of the WHO Collaborating Centers,
including support for the First
Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Moscow, a
project to identify local injury and violence prevention successes, and
increased WHO Collaborating Centers involvement in capacity
development (e.g. via webinars, contributions to TEACH-VIP 2nd Edition,
dissemination of information regarding MENTOR-VIP, etc.).
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| Technical Assistance...
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Writing a GRANT?
Giving a LECTURE?
Preparing a MANUSCRIPT?
Are you a researcher who needs a LITERATURE SEARCH
or help developing the METHODOLOGY for a new study?
Are you a community group in need of EVALUATION assistance?
The ECIC offers scientific and technical support to
community groups and
affiliate researchers around injury prevention.
Services for community groups include:
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Community needs assessments
- Content knowledge support and lectures around
various injury topics
Services for researchers include:
- Methodological and Statistical support
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Translation and Dissemination research
development support
- Economic evaluation research development support
For more information or to request support, go to our
website and complete a form under the Technical Assistance and Support tab. You can also
contact Shakiyla Smith at lrsmit3@emory.edu
for more information.
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It was wonderful to see all of you at our quarterly meeting. I look forward to a successful Research Workshop and to the commencement of our Mentorship Program. Stay tuned for the ECIC's library online and an Injury Prevention Certificate Program on the horizon.
Sincerely,
Dr. Debra Houry, MD, MPH
Director of Emory Center for Injury Control |
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Next Meeting: January 14th, 2010 12-1pm
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Location: The Faculty Office Building (FOB)
Room 101
49 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive, SE
Atlanta, GA 30303
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