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Greetings!
Thanks for your
interest in the Emory Center for Injury Control! As always, we welcome your participation in any of our events. Looking for a way to become involved in injury prevention, don't hesitate to contact us!
As you jump into spring and get excited for summer, start thinking of research ideas for our Faculty Seed Grant Program (November 2010). Also we encourage you to share your passion with us at a Brown Bag lecture in the next school year.
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Meeting Highlights
| Quarterly Meeting: April 8th, 2010
- Over 40 colleagues and partners attended the meeting!
- Dr. Emshoff gave us an overview of translational research and summarized the Implementation and Dissemination Research Workshop he led with Dr. Noonan in January. Dr. Emshoff is available for translational research assistance. See below for more information.
- The 2009 Student Summer Scholars presented their injury research:
Associations of Alcohol Consumption with Mode and Severity of Injury among Emergency Department Patients in Mexico - Marissa Esser - Emory University
Investigating Suburban and Urban High School Students' Perceptions of Cyber Bullying - Leandra Parris - Georgia State University
Contextual Analysis for Understanding School Drop Out
- Heidi Ehrenreich & Mumbi Okundaye - University of Georgia
- The 2010 Student Summer Scholarship recipients will be announced soon; thank you to all 14 students who applied. We will be announcing this year's recipients in the next week.
- Drs. Volkan Topalli and Joel Meyers of GSU are putting together a large Center grant application around youth violence research. If interested in participating, please contact Dr. Meyers at cpsjjm@langate.gsu.edu asap.
- We will be distributing a needs assessment survey to injury prevention practitioners. Please be on the lookout for the survey and take 10 minutes out of your day to fill it out! Thanks in advance for your help.
- Congratulations to the Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence! GCADV recently received the Project Connect grant from the Family Violence Prevention Fund.
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Training & Education
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Greetings Colleagues:
What a wonderful year for the ECIC in training
and education. To sum up our
achievements for the year, I have outlined 3 key areas of engagement.
- Brown Bag
Series - We have had 3 Brown Bag discussions over the last year, with our final
Lecture scheduled for May 20th.
Our featured speaker will be Dr. Herndon Murray from the Shepherd
Center. He will discuss his work
with adolescent spinal cord injury patients. Lunch will be provided by the ECIC, so
please come and share in the discussion. We will resume our Brown Bag
discussions in the fall and welcome you to share your research and/or area
of expertise. Send me an email if you are interested: sheron@emory.edu
- Mentorship
Program - We had our mentorship luncheon kick-off on March 3rd.
There are 9 mentor/mentee pairs representing a diversity of schools
including GSU, Emory, Morehouse, Clayton State and Spelman. We are excited
about the prospects of the program and hope to see fruitful outcomes from
the mentoring relationships. Please visit the ECIC website tab for
"mentoring" to access readings and information on the mentoring program.
- Concentration/Certificate
Process - We are excited about the prospects of creating a
concentration/certificate in Injury Control and Prevention. Students,
particularly in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory, have
expressed a need for a concentration in injury control. We plan to meet
with leaders in Behavioral Science and Health Education at Rollins to
facilitate this process. Stay tuned.
Thank you for your enthusiasm in the
educational activities of the ECIC. As we approach the summer months, we wish
you a safe and joyous time with family and friends.
Sincerely,
Dr. Sheryl Heron
Associate Director of Training & Education
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Research
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We are very excited about the progress made by the ECIC
funded research projects. During the spring semester the steering committee has
received updates and heard presentations from all of the Principal
Investigators about the status of their research projects that were funded as
part of the center grant. It is clear that all of our Principal Investigators
are diligently working to implement their projects and that all of the projects
are on track to achieve their goals. This is truly amazing and we are eagerly
awaiting to learn more about the findings of these exciting research projects.
- The funded seed grant projects are also getting started
(or will be shortly) and we look forward to learning more about these projects
and what we can do to support them. Again, we are thrilled to have such an
exciting diversity of projects, many of which target specific and vulnerable
populations. Again, we look forward to learning of the outcomes of these
research projects as well as assisting with finding future funding
opportunities, where applicable.
- The submission deadline for the next call for proposals
for the seed grant projects will be November, 2010. We will send out the
official announcement within the next couple of months. But, it is not too
early to start thinking about proposals, projects or possible collaborations.
Please contact us if you are looking for collaborators or need a consultation
on how a translational research component may be added to your existing
project. Dr. Jim Emshoff has significant expertise in this area and is
available to consult on issues of translation and implementation to promote and
strengthen this thematic area for ECIC affiliated faculty and researchers
conducting injury and violence-related research.
- The Scientific Oversight Committee met last week and
discussed our thematic topics (vulnerable populations and translational
research), strategic opportunities and priorities. One specific recommendation
was made to expand the seed grant proposals to include an option of adding a translational
research component to an existing project. This recommendation will be adopted
and incorporated in the call for proposals. Moreover, as a strategy to more
deliberately showcase our research and thematic areas, a subcommittee was
initiated to explore the possibility of sponsoring thematic symposiums or
special journal issues to promote and disseminate the projects conducted by
researchers affiliated with the ECIC. Dr. Volkan Topalli will chair this
committee. We look forward to hearing more about the ideas and recommendations
this committee will provide for how we may be able to foster interdisciplinary
collaborations and showcasing our research through symposiums and thematic
journal issues.
Dr. Monica Swahn
ECIC Associate Director of Research
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Outreach
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The Metropolitan Violence Prevention Partnership (MAVPP)
- MAVPP successfully conducted a
nonviolent music contest audition on March 19that the King
Center. Contest officials will announce the finalist later this month (April, 2010). At least ten of the top performing youth will participate in
a professional development workshop with Atlanta's Resource for Entertainment
and Arts (AREA), Inc. studios and training center. Training areas will
include topics like use of professional studio equipment, business plan
development and marketing, the essence of science-based nonviolent music,
public relations, and business acumen.
- MAVPP partners decided to
limit the official membership in the organization to individuals who are
current in their dues and have a signed memorandum of agreement on file.
Ms. Carlynn Pearson is sending membership dues invoices via e-mail on behalf of
the Mr. Mikhail Abdulbaaqee, MAVPP Treasurer.
- Partner organizations are
working together to support Ms. Betty Maddox in conducting a teen
dating violence prevention workshop called Violence Has No Face.
- MAVPP may be growing into a
larger organization that addresses the overlap between inmates returning to the
community and violence (e.g., family, gang, and street etc.). The
partners will address this recommendation to create a sub-partnership in the
April, 2010, monthly meeting at Visions Unlimited.
- MAVPP's Web Page is projected
to launch within the next two weeks through the Morehouse School of Medicine
web page. The page will list partners in good standing.
Dr. James Griffin
ECIC Associate Director of Outreach
Georgia Department of Community Health
Injury Prevention Program
- Carol Koplan announced that 100 people representing
diverse teams from 29 Georgia's colleges would be arriving in Atlanta the
following week for a conference that takes a true Public Health approach to
suicide prevention. In addition to scheduled training and meetings, activities include
Suicide Day at the Capitol and a fundraiser at Eddie's Attic.
- Bob Geller shared news of an increase in the number of
medical professionals from outside the U.S. who are coming to the Georgia
Poison Center for training. These individuals are supported by grants from
their home countries. Each will return home and use what they've learned to
initiate or expand poison control awareness and response programs in their
respective countries.
- Rhonda Page facilitated a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities and Threats) analysis to gather information about the IPP from
GIPAC members. The feedback generated during this exercise will contribute to
the development of a new Strategic Plan for the IPP.
Lisa Dawson
ECIC Associate Director of Outreach
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Need Methods Support?
| Translational Research
- The Implementation and Dissemination Research Workshop was a success! For all those who want to stay connected and continue the discussion, please join our translational research listserv. Email Shakiyla Smith to sign up lrsmit3@emory.edu
- To listen to the workshop and see the slides, visit our website or click on the podcast link: workshop
- Looking for assistance? Dr. Jim Emshoff is available for consultation on issues of translation and implementation for your injury research. He can help you with
developing translation research questions and methods for a new project,
as well as with including a translation component to an existing project. Be sure to go to the ECIC website and send us a request.
Cost/Economic Evaluation Support
- Dr. Phaedra Corso is also available to provide assistance and support around conducting economic evaluations and/or including them as components to existing projects.
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International Programs
| - The ECIC is in the process of renewing its designation as a Collaborating Center for the World Health Organization (WHO).
- The third cohort of Fogarty Fellows are finishing up their semester at Emory before they return to Mozambique to complete their program.
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Can you help?
| Neighborhood Vehicle Speed: A Pilot Study
Conducted by:
Volunteers of the Druid Hills Patrol (DHP) Druid Hills Patrol is looking for ideas to help slow down neighborhood traffic. If you have any ideas or sources of information you would like to share with them, please contact the ECIC by emailing Natasha at nobolen@emory.edu.
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Conferences
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10th World Conference on Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion September 21-24, 2010
London, UK 
APHA Annual MeetingNovember 6-10, 2010
Denver, CO
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Thank you for your continued support!
Sincerely,
Dr. Debra Houry
Director of Emory Center for Injury Control |
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Next Meeting: September 16th, 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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