ICEHS E-Newsletter Vol. 6, Number 7-8

Sunday, November 7, 9 AM - Noon: Section Leadership - McCormick Lakeside Center, Room 265

Monday, November 8, 8:00 AM - 10 AM: Section Business Meeting - McCormick Lakeside Center, Room 259

Wednesday, November 10, 5:30 PM - 7 PM: Section Business Meeting - Sheraton Chicago, Missouri Room

Congratulations to our newly elected officers! Their term begins at the Wednesday evening business meeting in Chicago.

Chairperson-Elect: David Lawrence
Secretary-Elect: Nancy Libby-Fisher
Section Councilor: Catherine Gotschall
Section Councilor: Maria Segui-Gomez
Governing Council: Susan Gerberich

Plan now to attend the ICEHS Social Hour on Monday, November 8 at 6:30 PM at the Sheraton Chicago. Meet new and old friends. This event is sponsored by ICEHS, for ICEHS members and guests. The social hour (actually hour and a half) will be followed by a special evening session, "Progress in Injury Control: Opportunities for the Future" from 8 PM - 10 PM. Plan now to attend these evening events.

This year the ICEHS Annual Awards Dinner will be held on Wednesday night, November 10, at the Columbia Yacht Club in Chicago, immediately following the Business Meeting. The Club, founded in 1892 and housed in an elegant 390 foot ship docked on Chicago's lake front, provides a unique view of the nighttime Chicago skyline. You can see and read all about it at www.torresen.com/columbia. The dinner will be buffet style in the Club's private dining room. A fish and a totally vegetarian entree, together with a wide variety of salads, vegetable dishes, and desserts will be served. For those of us who are still eating such things, there will be a carved to order roast beef (after all, this is Chicago!).

Although the Club is only a 10 minute walk from the Section's base at the Sheraton Hotel, charter bus transportation will be provided as part of the ticket cost. While it would be a lovely 10 minute stroll on the pedestrian/bike path along the Chicago River and Chicago's Lakefront, the committee thought it best not to gamble on Chicago's weather in November. Buses will leave the Sheraton 15 and 45 minutes after the close of the Business Meeting. Buses will return to the Sheraton, leaving in three trips at our convenience up until 11PM if needed. Maps will be provided to the hearty upon request.

The cost of the dinner and transportation will be $38 for full members and $25 for students. As usual, our awardees will be our guests. Janet Holden, formerly of the University of Illinois at Chicago, is now the Executive Director of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine. The AAAM has thus graciously agreed to serve as fiscal agent at no charge to the Section. (For information about AAAM, go to www.carcrash.org) Please make your check out to AAAM and mail it to:

Please note "APHA" in the bottom left corner of your check (and update Janet's address in your address book).

Reservations are needed IMMEDIATELY and can be made by mail along with your check, or by e-mailing Janet at jahaaam@aol.com. Payment can be made at the Annual Meeting. A very limited number of reservations will be taken at the Section Exhibit Booth and must be made by Monday, November 8. The absolute maximum number of attendees is 95 and so please get your reservation in.

For any further information about the dinner, please e-mail Janet or call her at 847-390-8927, ext.12. See you there!

Once again, it is time to start planning for the ICEHS exhibit booth at the APHA Annual Meeting. Staffing the booth is a good way to touch base with existing members and help recruit new ones. It is also a lot of fun. The exhibit hall is in McCormick Place, and our booth is number 450. Please contact Corinne Peek-Asa to sign up: send e-mail to: cpeekasa@ucla.edu or call (310) 206-4115. The booth schedule is:

Sunday 11/15/99		Monday 11/16/99
12:30 - 2:30 2:30 - 4:30 4:30 - 6:00		9:00 - 11:00 11:00 - 1:00 1:00 - 3:00 3:00 - 5:00

Tuesday 11/17/99		Wednesday 11/18/99
9:00 - 11:00 11:00 - 1:00 1:00 - 3:00 3:00 - 5:00		9:00 - 11:00 11:00 - 12:30

The Membership Committee worked with APHA to send out almost 300 letters to potential new members. With the help of several section members who provided mailing lists, we were able to put together a list focusing on professionals currently working in the area of injury control who were not currently members. We think there is enormous potential for growth in the section, and this recruitment drive will hopefully bring in some highly motivated new members. The best way to recruit new members is through word of mouth - so be sure to let your colleagues know about the section. New member registration forms can be downloaded from the APHA Web site or join through registration to the Annual Meeting.

Corinne Peek-Asa, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Southern California Injury Prevention
Research Center Associate Professor In Residence, UCLA
Department of Epidemiology
Box 951772
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
(310) 206-4115
(310) 794-7989 (fax)

Dr. David Sleet of the NCIPC will be receiving an award from the Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section of APHA at this year's Annual Meeting. The Mayhew Derryberry Award is given by the Section in recognition of contributions advancing the behavioral sciences and their application in the field of health promotion. He is being recognized for his work applying behavioral science theory to the injury problem and encouraging more behavioral scientists to devote scholarly attention to this public health problem. The award will be given at the PHEHP Section luncheon on Tuesday. Luncheon tickets can be purchased at the APHA registration area, but people are also very welcome to attend only the award ceremony portion for no charge.

Violence Institute of New Jersey at UMDNJ and UMDNJ-School of Public Health
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-School of Public Health wishes to announce the immediate opening of a faculty position to serve as the Research Director at the Violence Institute of New Jersey.

The Violence Institute of New Jersey (VINJ) at UMDNJ (based in Newark), in association with the UMDNJ-School of Public Health, is seeking a Research Director to: manage the research unit, initiate grant-supported research projects in violence studies, provide statistical and research design consultation to violence-related research projects conducted by UMDNJ investigators, oversee the compilation and collection of violence-related public health and criminal justice databases in New Jersey, conduct evaluations of community-based and government-run violence-related initiatives, and prepare grant applications, research reports and publications. Provisions to continue ongoing grant-supported research projects can be arranged. This individual will also have teaching/advising responsibilities in the UMDNJ-School of Public Health, as appropriate.

Reporting: Reports to the Executive Director of the Violence Institute of New Jersey.

Required Experience: a doctorate in psychology, sociology, public health, criminology, or related field and at least five years of experience as a senior social science or public health researcher; proven record of securing research grants; research publications in peer-reviewed journals, and supervisory and administrative experience. Preference given to researchers who have served as PIs or co-PIs on federal grants and those who have conducted violence-related research.

Required Skills: ability to design and conduct publishable-quality quantitative and qualitative applied research as well as evaluation research, ability to apply sophisticated statistical analyses and utilize statistical software packages, excellent writing skills, and ability to mentor junior researchers and clinicians.

Competitive salary and exceptional benefits package. Level of faculty appointment is open.

Please send letter of application, CV, one research paper, and names of three references to:

Michael B. Greene, Ph.D.
VINJ Executive Director and Chair of Search Committee
30 Bergen Street, Ste. 208
Newark, New Jersey 07017
Tel. (973) 972-2483 Fax (973) 972-1128

The selection process begins August 15, 1999, and will continue until the position is filled. The UMDNJ is an equal opportunity employer. Women and people of color are strongly urged to apply.

The UMDNJ-School of Public Health is sponsored by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in cooperation with Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology and in collaboration with the Public Health Research Institute.

Behavioral Scientist/Epidemiologist Position at CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention.

Closing Date: 9/21/99 (must be received by this date or postmarked by this date and then received in the Human Resources Management Office within 5 days of this date)

This senior position will be filled with an experienced epidemiologist or behavioral scientist, joining the Home and Recreation Injury Prevention Team in the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention. Injury topics address by this team include: residential fire injury prevention (19 states funded for smoke alarm distribution projects), bike safety (5 states funded for bike helmet distribution and education), older adult fall prevention, playground safety, sports-related injury prevention, drowning, dog bites, childhood injuries, and pedestrian injuries (jointly with the motor vehicle team).

This person should be an expert in epidemiological, research, statistical and evaluation processes, and be knowledgeable about the behavior change research and theories. This person will serve as a technical advisor for collaborative projects with state and local health departments and other national partners, including other government agencies and non-profit organizations. While experience in injury programs is not required, it will be an asset.

Where to Get An Application: call the CDC Job Line at 1-888-232-4473 they will mail or fax an application to you. Note: Applicants will be rated on the basis of education, experience and KSA responses appropriate to this application. KSAs are knowledge, skills, and abilities that are the specific characteristics that applicants should possess in order to perform the major duties of the position. Applications should address each KSA as an attachment to your application. Document and illustrate with examples how your previous work experience contributes to each KSA. Each KSA is scored separately. Therefore, even if you have described a position or experience for one KSA that also applies to another KSA, repeat the information again in order to get full credit.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has just released two Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) reports: "National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 1998," USDL 99-208, August 4, 1999.

"Fatal Workplace Injuries in 1997: A Collection of Data and Analysis," BLS Report 934, July 1999.

To compile counts that are as complete as possible, the BLS fatality census uses diverse reporting systems to identify, verify, and profile fatal work injuries. Information about each job-related fatality (occupation and other worker characteristics, industry, type of event, and machinery or equipment involved) is obtained by cross-referencing various source documents, such as death certificates, workers' compensation reports, and Federal and State agency administrative records.

USDL 99-208 is the annual CFOI news release and summarizes work injury fatalities that occurred in 1998. The release reports that fatal work injuries fell to their lowest level since the CFOI program began in 1992. An 18 percent drop in job-related homicides accounted for a large portion of the decline. Special tables are provided for the following types of fatalities:

-- Job-related homicides;
-- Workers struck by vehicles;
-- Construction industry fatalities

BLS Report 934 contains six articles in addition to about 30 tables that profile fatal injuries by various worker and incident characteristics. The report contains the following articles:

"National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 1997" by Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries staff
"Logging is Perilous Work" by Eric Sygnatur
"Worker Fatalities from being Caught in Machinery" by Janice Windau
"Profile of Work Injuries Incurred by Young Workers" by Janice Windau, Eric Sygnatur, and Guy Toscano
"Job Hazards in the Waste Industry" By Dino Drudi
"Fatalities to Law Enforcement Officers and Firefighters, 1992-97" by Cynthia Clarke and Mark Zak

Both reports are available free of charge by e-mailing your address to CFOIstaff@bls.gov or calling the CFOI staff at (202) 606-6175. The news release and much of the information in the 1997 report is available on the BLS Internet site http://www.bls.gov/oshhome.htm. Information on nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses is also available on that site.

The deadline for submission for the next issue of the EN is 10/18/99. Please send material as e-mail text or as an attachment to neena_murgai@dph.sf.ca.us

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