Education and Training

Brown Bag Lecture Series

The Emory Center for Injury Control holds quarterly brown bag lectures on Emory’s downtown Grady Campus. Typically, this is the 3rd or 4th Thursday of the month in the Faculty Office Building, Room 101. We have had many wonderful brown bags in the past, on a variety of injury topics.

Past Lectures:

Faculty Mentorship Program

The ECIC offers a one year mentorship program for junior and senior faculty across participating universities. Faculty members are paired based on shared research interests or specific requests. The mentorship will provide junior faculty with co-authorship opportunities, grant and proposal development support and collaboration, as well as more informal meeting and professional development opportunities. The ECIC holds a kick-off luncheon each year after the mentor/mentee pairs have been chosen.

Mentorship Resources:

Questions/comments: nobolen@emory.edu or sheron@emory.edu

Summer Scholarship Program

Each year, two undergraduate and/or graduate students will be selected and supported to complete research or programmatic projects in intentional or unintentional injury. Students from any area university will be eligible to apply for the scholarship. Scholarship recipients will receive the following:

Scholarship funds can be used to support any aspect of the students' project development and implementation. Please contact Ms. Shakiyla Smith for application information (lrsmit3@emory.edu). The annual deadline is in April. Check the announcements section each February for specifics.

Injury Prevention Scholarship Application .doc, 86kB

TEACH – VIP E-Learning

This is an online course available for public health professionals, educators, nonprofits, and employers interested in building expertise in violence and injury prevention. TEACH-VIP E-Learning is based on TEACH-VIP, which is a comprehensive injury prevention and control curriculum developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and a global network of prevention experts.

TEACH-VIP E-Learning addresses a broad range of topics related to preventing injuries, violence, and suicide. It offers guidance on using data to understand injury problems and developing evidence-based programs to address them. The course is designed for public health professionals and care providers; staff of public health ministries and other government sectors; nongovernmental organizations; and university students in schools of medicine, nursing, and public health.

The self-paced curriculum features 20 lessons that can be customized to accommodate individual needs and schedules. Each lesson can be completed in about 1 hour – with optional activities and readings available.

Lessons are organized into four categories:

Each lesson includes an overview, chapters, interactive quizzes, activity options, and resources. Printer-friendly versions of the lessons and most of the publications in the resources section of each lesson can be downloaded, printed, used offline, or distributed in electronic or print formats using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
http://teach-vip.edc.org/

Educational Courses:

The availability of comprehensive and multi-disciplinary coursework is the cornerstone of training the next generation of injury and violence prevention practitioners and researchers. The ECIC and its participating faculty will continue to develop, offer, and advocate for injury and violence-related undergraduate and graduate coursework at Emory University and collaborating institutions.

Our ECIC leadership currently offers three classes on an annual basis:

Emory University: Violence as a Public Health Problem (BSHE 565)
The goals of this course are: to familiarize students with the public health approach to violence, including surveillance, risk group identification, risk factor analysis, and program implementation/evaluation. The course will focus on interpersonal violence (assault and homicide, firearm-related violence, youth violence, sexual assault and intimate partner violence), as well as self-directed violence (suicide and suicide attempts).

Emory University: Injury Control and Prevention (EOH 580/BSHE 591)
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: describe the impact of injuries on health and on society in terms of mortality, morbidity, disability, and cost; discuss what is meant by the terms injury prevention and injury control; and describe the epidemiology of unintentional and intentional injuries including etiology, risk groups for major causes, and identify public health strategies for their prevention and control.

Georgia State University: Epidemiology and Prevention of Violence (PH 7265)
This course examines the public health approach to the prevention of interpersonal and self-directed violence. With these basic precepts as the underpinnings of the course, the areas of violence prevention to be covered are: child maltreatment, youth violence, intimate partner and sexual violence, elder abuse, and suicidal behavior.

Fellowships:

The ECIC offers an Injury Control Fellowship for emergency medicine physicians interested in pursuing research careers in injury or violence prevention. The ECIC will select and train an injury fellow each year. The fellowship lasts for 1-2 years, depending on the background and interests of the fellow and includes training in public health research and practice. Fellows are supervised by the ECIC Director. Responsibilities include taking relevant classes in the School of Public Health, conducting an independent research project on a specific injury or violence topic, presenting their research at one of the ECIC seminars.

We also offer an International Health Fellowship through the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University to train emergency medicine physicians in the areas of acute care and injury control in low and middle income nations. Under the mentorship of the Associate Director for International Programs, Dr. Scott Sasser, fellows will complete a two-year program that includes the following core components: international rotations, research and scholarly activity, and didactics through the Rollins School of Public Health.

Through our partnerships, there are additional multi-disciplinary training opportunities for faculty and post-doctorates including a Master of Science in Clinical Research and a KL2-Mentored Clinical and Translational Research Scholars Program.