Welcome to ECIC News! Please see our highlights from the last Quarterly Meeting in September and specific core updates below. See you next week at the Brown Bag Lecture - a panel presentation on Partner Violence - October 24th.

• ECIC Updates: Center Director, Dr. Deb Houry, thanked everyone for their help with providing materials for ECIC's Center Grant. Affiliated faculty, please see our website for your name, contact information, bio, and injury areas of research. If you are not listed or if information is missing, please email us, so we can add you, thanks. We are looking forward to our 20th Anniversary Celebration and Fundraiser on Nov. 14th and will be hosting a silent auction, link and more information forthcoming.  

• Summer Scholarship Presentations: The 2013 Summer Scholars presented on their injury-related research:  

Self-Sentiments and Identity-Related Post-Assault Outcomes of "Victims" and "Survivors" of Sexual Assault 

 

Leah Yngve - Emory University, Public Health

North Decatur and Clifton Roads: Road Safety Audit  

 

The Effect of Parent Stress and Demographics on Parenting Behaviors: Examining Factors Associated with Child Neglect Risk  

 

*photo of scholarship recipients above 

 

 

• Brown Bag Lecture Series: Our Brown Bag Lecture Series begins again this month with a panel presentation on Oct. 24th from 12 - 1pm.  We will be hearing from Dr. Betty Woodman (Contemporary Leadership Project), Mr. Greg Loughlin (Georgia Commission on Family Violence), Dr. Angela Amar (Emory School of Nursing), and Ms. Tamar Goldenberg (Emory School of Public Health). They will discuss their research on partner violence as well as the community response. 

• Certificate Program: ECIC's Injury & Violence Prevention Certificate Program was approved in May 2013 and begins this fall. The certificate is available to Emory MPH and PhD students but our goal is to expand the program in coming years to all Emory students and students from our partner universities.  

• Practicum Program: Three new interns from the Rollins School of Public Health have begun working through ECIC's Practicum Program. We welcome Hamidah Ali, Kinda Zureick and Jonathan Bressler to the injury prevention community. Hamidah is working with the ECIC, Kinda is working with Safe Kids Georgia and Jonathan is working with the Georgia Violent Death Reporting System.  

Research
ADVANCE

• WestJEM: The 4th ECIC special issue came out this August! Grab your copy at the next meeting or ECIC event or check out the interactive version online: http://bit.ly/145BY9p. Also, we are now accepting submissions for the 5th issue, due: Dec. 16, 2013. This next issue will focus on: Using Social Media in Injury Prevention Practice and Research. Please demonstrate how you, as a researcher or community organization, leverage social dynamics and networks to spread injury prevention messages, share current findings, and increase access to injury-related evidence-based information. Submit your manuscript directly to WestJEM. Links to all ECIC issues can be found on our website.    

• Pilot Grant Program: This year our goal is to move existing projects and near final proposals to grant submission and to provide resources that may facilitate the completion of your proposal. Please email your proposal to Shakiyla Smith
  by Nov. 15, 2013. For guidelines and more information visit our website.  

• ASC Conference: The American Society of Criminology conference is next month right here in Atlanta, November 20 - 23, 2013. ECIC will be presenting: Innovative Partnerships and Strategies to Reduce Violence in Georgia. This is a fantastic conference, so we encourage the ECIC community to get involved. A list of ECIC-affiliated faculty presenting will be shared soon. Visit the ASC website for more information.

ECIC Associate Director of Research 

PRACTICE

• Prescription Drug Overdoses: There will be a meeting on Nov. 13th from 1 - 4pm hosted by Commissioner Fitzgerald and DPH's legislative liaison. 

Ms. Lisa Dawson
ECIC Associate Director of Community Outreach

Sincerely,

ECIC is accepting donations for our upcoming silent auction. We greatly appreciate any items, big or small.

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Thanks in advance for your support!