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American Public Health AssociationInjury Control and Emergency Health Services SectionAPHA ICEHS Electronic News Vol. 7 No. 7***************************** CONTENTS* This item was also included in the previous edition of Electronic News APHA ICEHS Electronic News is circulated on
the 15th of each month ***************************** EDITOR’S DESK: CORRECTION TO TIME FOR MONDAY LATE-BREAKER SESSIONOn July 9, a special announcement about the Late-Breaker sessions for the Annual Meeting was circulated to members via e-mail. The special announcement incorrectly gave the time for the Monday Late-Breaker session as 8:30am to 10:00am. Note that correct time for the Monday, November 13, Late-Breaker poster session is 8:30pm to 10:00pm, i.e., IT IS AN EVENING SESSION, NOT A MORNING SESSION. See the item below ("Boston 2000: Late-Breaker Abstracts Due August 18") for more information about the Late-Breaker sessions. ***************************** FROM THE CHAIR: SECTION ELECTIONSBy now you should have received your ballot for APHA's 2000 Section elections. If you have not already done so, PLEASE VOTE! It only takes a minute or two. As an ICEHS member you are responsible for selecting our Section leadership. We have a terrific slate this year - please take a look and cast your votes. Ballots are due back to APHA by July 31, so vote now! - Lisa Barrios, Section Chair < LBarrios@cdc.gov>***************************** BOSTON 2000: ANNUAL MEETING IN BOSTON, NOV 12-16In case you haven’t heard, the American Public Health Association's 128th Annual Meeting "Eliminating Health Disparities" will be in Boston, from November 12-16, 2000. You can register on-line at the meeting Web site, < http://www.apha.org/meetings>. You can also make hotel reservations on this Web site. The official ICEHS hotel for the forthcoming Annual Meeting is the Sheraton Boston. This is also the headquarters hotel for the conference. Keynote speakers for the meeting include Kweisi Mfume, U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, and the Rev. Leon Sullivan.This year, the on-line submission process brought in more papers than ever before. A total of 208 papers were submitted (some were proposals for full sessions) - many more than prior years. Fifty-nine percent of all submissions were accepted. Please submit any comments or suggestions on the process for next year to me. - Carolyn Fowler, Chair, Scientific Program Committee < cfowler@co.ba.md.us>***************************** BOSTON 2000: SCHEDULE FOR SECTION MEETINGSSunday, November 12: Section Leadership Meeting, 9:00am - 1:00pm Note: A combined Roundtable/Section Meeting will take the place of the usual Wednesday night Section business meeting. We will use the roundtables for committee meetings and to provide additional information about the Section to those who would like to get more involved in ICEHS. - Carolyn Fowler, Chair, Scientific Program Committee < cfowler@co.ba.md.us>***************************** BOSTON 2000: SCHEDULE FOR SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS SPONSORED OR COSPONSORED BY ICEHSListed below are the scientific sessions sponsored or co-sponsored by ICEHS. Our Section is the primary sponsor for those sessions WITHOUT an asterisk. Sessions with an asterisk are sponsored by some other Section, but contain significant injury content and are co-sponsored by ICEHS. This listing can also be obtained from the meeting Web site at: < http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/program_12.htm> (meetings/view the scientific sessions and abstracts by sponsor). The Web site listing will also allow you to click on a session to obtain more information, such a list of presenters and their abstracts.Monday, November 13, 2000: 12:30pm - 2:00pm Monday, November 13, 2000: 2:30pm - 4:00pm Monday, November 13, 2000: 4:30pm - 6:00pm Monday, November 13, 2000: 8:30pm - 10:00pm Tuesday, November 14, 2000: 8:30am - 10:00am Tuesday, November 14, 2000: 12:30pm - 2:00pm Tuesday, November 14, 2000: 2:30pm - 4:00pm Wednesday, November 15, 2000: 8:30am - 10:00am Wednesday, November 15, 2000: 12:30pm - 2:00pm Wednesday, November 15, 2000: 2:30pm - 4:00pm Wednesday, November 15, 2000: 4:30pm - 6:00pm Wednesday, November 15, 2000: 8:30pm - 10:00pm Thursday, November 16, 2000: 8:30am - 10:00am - Carolyn Fowler, Chair, Scientific Program Committee < cfowler@co.ba.md.us>***************************** BOSTON 2000: NO POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS PLEASE!I am sad to report that presenters at this year's meeting will have to restrict their audio-visual use to 35mm slides or overhead projection. LCD projectors will NOT be available and presenters wishing to use their own laptops and LCDs will be required to book ahead and pay a substantial service fee. These limitations are imposed by APHA because of contractual arrangements with the hotels. I assure you that all the scientific program planners have protested this unsatisfactory situation, and will do so again in our evaluation post-conference, but for now, please plan on a format other than PowerPoint. - Carolyn Fowler, Chair, Scientific Program Committee < cfowler@co.ba.md.us>***************************** BOSTON 2000: LATE-BREAKER ABSTRACTS DUE AUGUST 18APHA's Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section will again sponsor two "Late-Breaker" sessions during this year's Annual Meeting in Boston. The poster session is scheduled for Monday, November 13, from 8:30pm to 10:00pm, and the oral session is scheduled for Thursday, November 16, from 8:30am to 10:00am. Presenters must be members of APHA. These sessions are meant to provide a forum for presentation of cutting edge research. Abstracts should feature work in progress or completed within the last few months, i.e., after the February deadline for the Annual Meeting's regular symposia. It is anticipated that six papers will be accepted for each session. The Section will accept abstracts of no more than 250 words until August 18, 2000. Preference for an oral or a poster presentation should be indicated; however, the ICEHS Late-Breakers Program Committee will make final decisions. Only one abstract may be submitted per primary author. Abstracts must contain at least preliminary results and will be judged on scientific merit, originality, importance to injury control/emergency health services, and generalizability. The following format is required in the order listed: author’s name, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, title of abstract, abstract. Please e-mail with the word Late-Breaker as the subject (preferred method), mail, or fax to: Dr. Jean Langlois, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mail Stop F-41, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, E-mail: JAL7@CDC.GOV, Fax: (770) 488-4338. Notification of decisions will be e-mailed or faxed to all submitters by October 2. JAL7@CDC.GOV>***************************** *SECTION NEWS: NOTICE TO RECIPIENTS OF THIS NEWSLETTER WHO ARE NOT APHA ICEHS MEMBERSIf you have let your APHA membership lapse, we urge you to renew your membership through the ICEHS Section immediately. APHA membership brings many benefits, including subscriptions to the American Journal of Public Health, the Nation's Health, and the ICEHS Section paper newsletter, as well as new services such as legislative and literature updates. The Section depends on APHA membership to continue its activities, and your membership will be a great help. - Corinne Peek-Asa, ICEHS Membership Committee, < cpeekasa@ucla.edu>, phone: (310) 206-4115***************************** *SECTION NEWS: CO-CHAIR NEEDED FOR THE MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEEWe are currently looking for a new co-chair for the Membership Committee. This committee is a great way to get to know ICEHS members and to get involved with the Section and APHA. The duties include organizing the booth at the APHA conference, sending letters to new members, and helping with recruitment and retention activities. The time commitment is not large, and it's easy to get people to help with these activities. If you are interested, please contact me! - Corinne Peek-Asa, ICEHS Membership Committee, < cpeekasa@ucla.edu>, phone: (310) 206-4115.***************************** *SECTION NEWS: MEMBERSHIP REPORTThe ICEHS currently has 538 primary members, down from 567 this time last year - about a 5% decrease. Our secondary membership is also down, from 158 to 147. This is a little disappointing since we conducted a large recruitment drive last summer and because we've been one of the few growing sections over the last several years. The recruitment drive was successful in bringing in some new members, but we have not been as successful in retaining members. The APHA is generally concerned with membership, which has been stable over the past 10 years even though the number of professionals in the field is growing. They are encouraging sections to actively recruit new members, and they are working on increasing benefits to existing members to keep them active. New benefits include literature and legislative updates, and plans for new information to be available on-line. Check out the APHA Web site < http://www.apha.org> for more information on these benefits.As a Section, we also need to be involved in actively recruiting new members and getting them involved in Section activities so they want to maintain membership. One of the best ways to recruit is by word of mouth! If you know anyone new to the field, interested in the field, or potentially interested in the field, forward their name to me and I can have a membership packet sent to them. Increased membership means an increased budget, so this is in all of our best interests. This Section has a lot to offer professionals in the field, so please help get the word out! - Corinne Peek-Asa, ICEHS Membership Committee, < cpeekasa@ucla.edu>, phone: (310) 206-4115***************************** *SECTION NEWS: ICEHS SECTION PARTICIPATES IN EMS/PUBLIC HEALTH ROUNDTABLEThe ICEHS Section of APHA was represented at a recent meeting convened by APHA, NHTSA and NAEMSP to explore further integration of emergency medical services and public health. In addition to the relevance of the topic, this was one of the first times that APHA had formally requested that the Section send a representative to a meeting within its topical purview. In addition, other Section members were scattered among the participants representing other organizations. The EMS and Public Health communities were well represented, including APHA President-Elect Bird and several members of the APHA and NAEMSP Executive Boards. The meeting was Co-chaired by Dr. Jeff Michaels, the NHTSA EMS Section Chief and NAEMSP President Dr. Jon Krohmer. Overall, the meeting was extraordinarily productive. There was clear and unanimous agreement in the room on the obvious value and necessity of integrating EMS & Public Health. Dr. Rick Martinez gave the keynote address. The work of the group centered upon identifying the benefits of and barriers to EMS & PH integration. Each of these areas was discussed sequentially from an EMS and PH perspective, with different individuals from the panel leading the different sequential discussions. Jeff Michaels and John Krohmer will lead the drafting of a document for eventual release as a NHTSA special report, similar in form to the recent EMS/Managed Care Roundtable Report. There will be a series of bulletins and a final report. The drafts will be available for review. The 2nd Roundtable will be held during the upcoming APHA Annual Meeting in Boston. The 3rd Roundtable will be held at the NAEMSP Winter meeting in FL next January. The 4th and final Roundtable will be held back in DC, at a time to be scheduled. - Les R. Becker <becker@pire.org> ***************************** GENERAL NEWS: NCIPC ANNOUNCES PRIORITIES FOR INJURY RESEARCH AND INVITES PUBLIC COMMENTThe National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) announces its proposed priorities for injury research and invites public comment. Comments from the public, including researchers, practitioners, policymakers and advocates will be collected, compiled, and used to help formulate research priorities for FY 2001 grant solicitations. Please use the following internet address to view them: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/res-opps/fy_2001.htm Comments regarding these proposed research priorities for injury research will be accepted until July 28, 2000. Please direct them to: Ted Jones, Program Manager, Office of Research Grants, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 4770 Buford Highway, NE, Mailstop K-58, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724. Email: ORGINFO@cdc.gov- Lisa Barrios, Section Chair < LBarrios@cdc.gov>***************************** GENERAL NEWS: STIPDA ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND INJURY PROGRAM EVALUATION WORKSHOPThe State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors' Association (STIPDA) will hold its 2000 annual conference at the Sheraton Hotel, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, September 11-13, 2000. A feature of this year's conference will be an injury program evaluation workshop presented by the North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center. For further information, or to obtain a registration form, contact: David Scharf, MPH, Executive Director, STIPDA National Office, 2141 Kingston Court, Suite 110-B, Marietta, Georgia 30067. Phone: (770) 690-9000; Email: stipda@mindspring.com- Carl Spurlock <cwspurl@pop.uky.edu>***************************** GENERAL NEWS: NCHS RELEASES REPORT ON INJURY AND POISONING (INJURY SECTION OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH INTERVIEW SURVEY)The latest National Center for Health Statistics report on Injury and Poisoning is now available on the web: <http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/series/sr10/pre-200/sr10_202.htm>Hard copies should be available by end of July. If you would like a copy, please send a request by e-mail to Margaret Warner at < MWarner@cdc.gov> with your name and complete mailing address.This report provides a descriptive overview of the first year of data from the injury section of the redesigned National Health Interview Survey. Some highlights from the report: In 1997, there were 34.4 million medically-attended episodes of injury and poisoning reported among the US civilian noninstitutionalized population at a rate of 129 episodes of injury and poisoning per 1,000 persons (similar for crude and adjusted rates). The injury and poisoning episodes resulted in 40.9 million conditions, at a rate of 154 conditions per 1,000 persons (similar for crude and adjusted rates). The age-adjusted injury and poisoning episode rate for males was 21% higher than the rate for females. In 1997, falls were the leading external cause of injury with 11.3 million episodes of falls reported. The home was the most frequently reported place of injury, with 24% of injuries occurring inside the home and another 18% outside the home. Leisure activities and paid work were most often reported as the activities the person was engaged in when the injury episode occurred, accounting for 22% and 19%, respectively. - Margaret Warner < MWarner@cdc.gov>***************************** *GENERAL NEWS: SOPHE/CDC AWARDS TWO STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS IN UNINTENTIONAL INJURY PREVENTIONThe Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) and CDC’s Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention are pleased to announce Heather A. Jacobsen and Beth T. Stalvey as the 1999-2000 SOPHE/CDC Student Fellows in Unintentional Injury Prevention. Heather is an MPH student at St. Louis University, who is evaluating the impact of tailoring injury prevention messages for parents to help prevent childhood injuries. Beth is a Ph.D. student in Health Behavior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who is examining the application of the transtheoretical model to an educational program targeting older drivers. Both fellows receive a stipend, one-year student membership in SOPHE, and an opportunity to present their work at the SOPHE annual meeting in Boston, November 2000. Honorable mentions are awarded to Kelli England, a Ph.D. student from Virginia Tech, who is using behavioral safety feedback to train parents about the importance of proper child safety seat use; and Ana Validzic, an MPH student from UNC-Chapel Hill, who is applying media advocacy and communication theories to encourage journalists to write stories about injury prevention. The SOPHE/CDC fellowship program was designed to support the training of a new generation of injury prevention researchers and practitioners, and to fill an important void in the professional preparation of behavioral scientists and health educators in the field. For more information about the fellowship program or to receive an application form, visit SOPHE’s Web site: <www.sophe.org>, or write to the Society for Public Health Education, Unintentional Injury Fellowship, 750 First Street, NE, Suite 910, Washington, DC, 20002-4242.- Krista Hopkins <kjh7@cdc.gov>***************************** POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT:ASSISTANT OR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONThe Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine seeks an individual at the Assistant or Associate Professor level to conduct research in community intervention trials, systematic reviews, and evaluation of injury control measures with the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center. Appointment can be made to a regular or research faculty position. This individual will serve as a resource for fellows and graduate students affiliated with the Center, and participate in the teaching programs of the Center. Suitable applicants will have doctoral level training, e.g., PhD, DrPH, MD with at least two years of experience and expertise in injury epidemiology research, community intervention trials, and systematic reviews. Salary is commensurate with experience and level of appointment. The University of Washington is building a culturally diverse faculty and strongly encourages applications from female and minority candidates. The University of Washington is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Please submit letter of interest, complete CV, and list of four references to Peter Cummings, MD, MPH, Chair of Search Committee, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Box 359960, 325 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA 91804. Email: peterc@u.washington.eduThis position will stay open until filled. - Rebeeca McColl <ribbit@u.washington.edu> ***************************** *POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT:SOPHE/CDC ANNOUNCE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP IN UNINTENTIONAL INJURY PREVENTIONSOPHE is now accepting applications for the 2001 SOPHE/CDC Student Fellowship in Unintentional Injury Prevention. This one-year fellowship, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, is designed to assist and train students in unintentional injury prevention. For one year, starting October 2000, three fellows will receive a $1,200 stipend, one-year student membership in SOPHE and complimentary registration at the SOPHE Annual Meeting in Atlanta in 2001, where they will have an opportunity to present their projects. The fellowship will be awarded to three full-time students in graduate degree programs who will work at their own institutions on research or practice-based projects that consider unintentional injury prevention from the perspective of health education or behavioral science. Projects should address home, recreation or motor vehicle injuries. They may be related to surveillance, risk factor identification, evaluation or dissemination. Projects related to the development or use of theory in injury prevention are also acceptable. For more information about selection criteria, application procedures, or last year’s recipients, visit the SOPHE web site at <www.sophe.org>, or write to the Society for Public Health Education Unintentional Injury Fellowship, 750 First St., NE, #910, Washington DC 20002-4242. Applications must be received by July 31, 2000. - Krista Hopkins <kjh7@cdc.gov> ***************************** *POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT:STATISTICIAN POSITION AT NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICSThe incumbent serves in the Immediate Office of the Associate Director and is responsible for assisting in the analytic research studies of the epidemiology of injury using data from a variety of national data sets. This involves the specification of research questions, the selection of the data bases appropriate to the problem, the development of a plan of analysis incorporating the appropriate statistical techniques, the execution of the analysis, and the interpretation and dissemination of the findings. Findings are to be presented in journal articles and at professional meetings and conferences. In the course of these duties, the employee would also assist in the management of projects from the International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on Injury Statistics. Other duties include responding to requests for information and technical assistance from within and outside of the Center in areas of substantive expertise. The position is now open at the GS-9/11/12 levels. If filled at the GS-09 or GS-11 level, position has promotion potential to GS-12. Please indicate the grade(s) for which you wish to be considered. You will only be considered for the grade(s) for which you indicate an interest. SALARY: GS-09: $35,310 - 45,900 per annum; GS-11: $42,724 - 55,541 per annum; GS-12: $51,204 - 66,564 per annum. Permanent / Full-time appointment, located in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Office of Analysis, Epidemiology, and Health Promotion, Office of the Associate Director, Hyattsville, MD. Please see announcement 3-00-056 on the CDC Employment page for complete application details including qualification requirements: <http://www2.cdc.gov/hrmo/vresultX.asp> - Lois Fingerhut <laf4@CDC.GOV> *****************************
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