American Public Health Association
Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section
APHA ICEHS Electronic News Vol. 8 No. 5
June 2001
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APHA ICEHS Electronic News is circulated on the 15th of each month.
Editor: Steve Marshall, Dept of Epidemiology, Univ. of North
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CONTENTS
Section News
- Notes from the Chair
- Late-Breaker Abstracts Due August 3, New Address for Submission
- APHA elections open until July 11
- Update on Atlanta 2001
- Injury Prevention in Action Photos Needed for Section Booth
General News
- University of Michigan Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology
Position Announcements
- SOPHE/CDC Student Fellowship in Unintentional Injury Prevention
- Senior Statistical Analyst, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Post-Doctoral Position in Occupational Epidemiology at UMass Lowell
- Research Associate, Highway Safety Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC
- Two Positions at the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center
- Research Faculty, Center for Violence and Injury Control, Pittsburgh, PA
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SECTION NEWS:
Notes from the Chair
There has been a change in the late-breaker abstract submission process. In keeping with the tradition of having the late-breaker abstracts review headed by someone at the CDC-National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Nelson Adekoya will be taking responsibility for receiving the abstract submissions. Information regarding the submission process is noted later in this newsletter. Lee Husting, who admirably handled the late-breakers last year, has moved to NIOSH in Morgantown to become Section Chief of the Intervention and Evaluation Section in the Division of Safety Research. I want to publicly thank Lee for his fine work last year and for what he has done this year to go the process moving. Lee assures me that he will remain active in the Section with the full support of his new agency. I also wish to thank Dr. Adekoya for accepting responsibility for coordinating the review of the abstracts.
- David Lawrence david.lawrence@sdsu.edu
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Late-Breaker Abstracts Due August 3, 2001
New Submission Address
APHA's Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section will again sponsor two late-breaker sessions during this year's Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The poster session is scheduled for Tuesday, October 23, from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM. The oral session is scheduled for Thursday, October 25, from 8:30 to 10:00 AM. 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 6 papers will be accepted for the oral session and up to 10 papers for the poster session. The Section will accept abstracts of no more than 250 words (no tables or figures) until August 3, 2001. 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: senior author's name, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, title of abstract, abstract, names of other authors.
Please send abstract submissions as an e-mail attachment to NBA7@cdc.gov, or to:
Dr. Nelson Adekoya, 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. Questions can be directed to Dr. Adekoya at (770) 488-4642.
Notification of decisions will be e-mailed to all submitters no later than September 17.
Please use "Late-breaker" as the e-mail subject. Please send only one abstract per e-mail- not multiple abstracts in one e-mail.
- David Lawrence david.lawrence@sdsu.edu
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APHA elections open until July 11
APHA elections are open until July 11. Please remember to vote!! You should have received a postcard in the mail giving you your Election Validation Number and your Member Number. Please visit the Web site (also on the postcard) as soon as you get this information and cast your ballot. It takes less than a minute to vote!
If you did not receive the postcard or do not have access to the web, call 1 (866) 720-4357 for a paper ballot. It is important for you to participate in choosing your section's leadership. Thank you!
- Lisa Barrios, Past-Chair lic8@cdc.gov
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Update on Atlanta 2001
APHA has launched a new Web site for the 2001 meeting, www.apha.org/meetings. Information on hotels and the program schedule are posted on this site. The ICEHS sessions will be held in the Georgia World Congress Center. Members are advised to register for accommodation as early as possible. Early-bird (i.e. discounted) registration is available until August 17.
Please note that the detailed Preliminary Program traditionally printed with the Nations Health will not be produced this year. Instead, registrants can utilize a personal scheduler through the Web site. The personal scheduler will enable registrants to view the program, select specific sessions and presentations and will create a personal itinerary. The itinerary can be accessed from any computer with an internet connection. You can change, update and add to your itinerary at any time.
- Steve Marshall SMarshall@unc.edu
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Injury Prevention in Action Photos Needed for Section Booth!
The Membership Committee (Kristen Lindermer, June Lee, Janet Holden, and Ronda Zakocs) is busy drafting a membership recruitment flyer, conducting a targeted membership drive and, most importantly, up-dating the exhibit booth materials for the APHA Annual Meeting.
We need your help in modernizing the exhibit booth for Atlanta this year! We're looking for color, digital, injury-related photos that portray the many faces of injury prevention practitioners in action, such as conducting a child passenger safety inspection, installing smoke alarms, teaching about pedestrian safety, inspecting the health and safety of workplaces, testifying at legislative committees about injury control policies, or working with injury-related community coalitions (e.g., Safe Kids or Safe Communities).
If you have such pictures, we'd appreciate it if you would e-mail them to Ronda Zakocs at rzakocs@bu.edu
- Ronda Zakocs, Membership Committee Co-chair rzakocs@bu.edu
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GENERAL NEWS:
University of Michigan Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology
The 36th Annual Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology will again be hosted by the University of Michigan on July 8-27, 2001 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Among the 44 courses that are offered, two one-week courses are geared toward injury epidemiology. These course titles are: Injury Epidemiology taught by Gordon S. Smith, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University and Design and Evaluation of Injury Prevention Programs taught by Carolyn Fowler, Director of the Injury Prevention Program at Baltimore County Department of Health and Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University.
For further information regarding these courses please contact Jody Gray at Tel: (734) 764-5454, Fax: (734) 764-3192, Email: jodygray@umich.edu. Visit our Website: http://www.sph.umich.edu/epid/GSS
- Jody Gray jodygray@umich.edu
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Abstracts of Injury Research and Prevention Literature Available Online
Free injury literature updates are posted each week to:
http://www.safetylit.org
The SafetyLit listings include abstracts from many journals and agency reports that aren't contained in Medline, as well as those that are. If you would like to receive notice each week when the abstracts are available, please visit the SafetyLit.org Website and sign up for the announcement listserver. Even if you don't sign up for the email notice, you may still visit the WWW site each week to view recent abstracts in the injury research and prevention field.
- David Lawrence david.lawrence@sdsu.edu
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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS
SOPHE/CDC Student Fellowship in Unintentional Injury Prevention
SOPHE is now accepting applications for the 2002 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 2001, up to three fellows
will receive a $1,200 stipend, one-year student membership in SOPHE and complimentary registration at the SOPHE Annual Meeting in Philadelphia in 2002, where they will have an opportunity to present their projects.
The fellowship will be awarded to 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 the past two years' recipients, visit the SOPHE Web site: 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, 2001.
- Krista Hopkins kjh7@cdc.gov
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Senior Statistical Analyst
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
A senior statistical analyst is required for data analysis and report/manuscript preparation for a large research project to study child occupant protection. The central goal of this project is to save children's lives by increasing the fund of knowledge about children in motor vehicle crashes. Responsibilities include: determining appropriate statistical analyses for specified research questions in collaboration with the project investigators and biostatisticians; performing specialized statistical analyses; preparing summary reports and interpretations for senior project staff and reports to external industry entities; maintaining in-depth working knowledge of the current state of research; drafting manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed scientific literature; and preparing and delivering presentations of work.
The projected start date is July 2001. Resumes accepted immediately. Required education and experience: Master's degree in epidemiology or biostatistics, demonstrated proficiency in the use of statistical packages (SAS, SPSS), word processing, Excel, Power Point, Access, and 3 years of relevant experience.
Send resumes to Leigh Botner, Business Manager, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th & Civic Center Blvd, 3535 TraumaLink, Philadelphia, PA 19104. For further information, contact Dennis Durbin, MD, MSCE, by E-mail: ddurbin@cceb.med.upenn.edu, or Phone: (215) 898-1459.
- Dennis Durbin ddurbin@cceb.med.upenn.edu
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Post-Doctoral Position in Occupational Epidemiology
UMass Lowell
The University of Massachusetts Lowell, Dept. of Work Environment announces a post-doctoral research position in occupational epidemiology for studies of work-related musculoskeletal disorders and acute injury. Earned doctorate in epidemiology, biostatistics, or related field and strong quantitative skills with SAS programming experience. Also useful would be any of the following: knowledge of mental health survey tools, psychometric scaling, modeling of
exposure assessment data, longitudinal and/or multi-level analysis (e.g., hierarchical regression).
Please contact Laura Punnett, Sc.D., Professor, Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell, One University Avenue, Lowel, MA 01854. Tel: 978-934-3269;
E-mail: laura_punnett@uml.edu.
Web: http://www.uml.edu/Dept/WE/punnett.htm
- Steve Marshall SMarshall@unc.edu
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Social/Behavioral Research Associate, Highway Safety Research Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
We are looking for a person to join our social/behavioral research team at the UNC Highway Safety Research Center. We conduct a wide variety of research projects to address social and
behavioral issues relating to transportation-related injury. Current projects are funded by grants from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. We also have contracts with a variety of state, national and private funding organizations.
Current projects deal with a variety of adolescent behaviors relating to transportation safety (including walking, bicycling and driving). Specific projects focus on bicycle helmet use (and other injury prevention issues) in the Canadian province of British Columbia, efforts of parents in North Carolina to influence their teens' driving behavior, alcohol use among college students, alcohol use by recreational boaters, the current state of Driver Education in North Carolina, driver distraction and transportation issues and safety among the elderly.
We conduct a wide range of research studies. Typically these involve (1) inquiry into basic social/behavioral processes as they related to injury prevention, (2) development, implementation and evaluation of community programs to reduce injury, or (3) evaluation of public policies designed to improve transportation safety.
We seek a person with good grounding in principles of research, as well as familiarity and experience with survey research data collection, management and analysis. Creativity in problem solving is often needed as we implement field research. Familiarity with a broad range of microcomputer software typically used in social research is important (e.g., spreadsheet, statistical analysis, graphic presentation, word processing). A Master's degree or substantial post-graduate education is essential.
For further information regarding the wide range of work we do, see our web site: http://www.hsrc.unc.edu. To apply, please contact Rob Foss, Research Scientist & Manager of Alcohol Studies, Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3430. Ph. 919 962 8702; Fax 919 962 8710.
- Rob Foss foss@claire.hsrc.unc.edu
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Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center (2 Positions)
The Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center at the UCLA School of Public Health has available full-time positions for two senior researchers in injury epidemiology, prevention and control. The SCIPRC was founded in 1989 and is one of 10 Injury Control Research Centers nationwide funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Senior Injury Researcher (PhD Level):
The individual selected will supervise ongoing, and plan and initiate new, multidisciplinary research studies focused on high risk populations in Southern California, including minorities, children, the elderly, working populations, victims of disasters, and brain injured individuals. Activities will include developing study protocols and data recording instruments; hiring, training and supervising study staff; developing and implementing procedures to insure continued cooperation of study subjects; coordinating data collection and reduction; analyzing data and formulating scientific and policy conclusions; presenting data and conclusions at conferences and to community groups; and preparing manuscripts for submission to peer-reviewed academic journals.
Qualifications: doctoral degree in epidemiology, public health, or a related scientific field; strong analytic and communication skills; experience in injury control or related fields preferable but not required.
Qualified candidates are encouraged to submit a resume to: Jess F. Kraus MPH PhD, Director, Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center, 10911 Weyburn Avenue, Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90024-2884 Phone: (310) 794-2706 Fax: (310) 794-0787 E-mail: jfkraus@ucla.edu.
Senior Injury Researcher (PhD/Masters Level):
The individual selected will supervise ongoing, and plan and initiate new, multidisciplinary research studies focused on high risk populations in Southern California. Activities will include assisting in the development of study protocols and data recording instruments; aiding in the recruitment and supervision of study staff; coordinating data collection and reduction; analyzing data and formulating scientific and policy conclusions; presenting data and conclusions at conferences and to community groups; and assisting in the preparation of manuscripts for submission to peer-reviewed academic journals.
Qualifications: either a doctoral or a masters degree in epidemiology, public health, or a related scientific field; for masters degree level applicants, some record of publication in peer-reviewed academic journals is desirable.
Qualified candidates are encouraged to submit a resume to: Jess F. Kraus MPH PhD, Director, Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center, 10911 Weyburn Avenue, Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90024-2884 Phone: (310) 794-2706 Fax: (310) 794-0787 E-mail: jfkraus@ucla.edu.
- Jess Kraus jfkraus@ucla.edu
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Research Faculty Position, Department of Emergency Medicine, Center for Violence and Injury Control, Allegheny General Hospital; Pittsburgh, PA
A full-time academic position is available for a researcher to join the faculty of the Center for Violence and Injury Control (CVIC) within the Department of Emergency Medicine. Established in 1997, CVIC promotes injury control through a combination of injury research and community programs. Research priorities of the Center include domestic violence, youth violence, and transportation-related injuries. The responsibilities of the position include: (1) providing statistical, epidemiological, and database support services for existing and planned projects; (2) establishing an independent research portfolio in an area relevant to the mission of the Center; (3) obtaining extramural research funds and managing funded research projects; (4) participating in local, statewide, and national meetings relevant to the mission of the Center; (5) authoring peer-reviewed scholarly publications and; (6) participating in the resident education and faculty development training programs of the Department of Emergency Medicine.
The position requires a doctoral degree in the health sciences and experience in a similar or related position. Advanced training in research design, statistics, epidemiology, health services research, or evaluation methodology is necessary. Requires experience with grant writing, grant management, and evidence of successful scholarly work.
We offer a friendly, collegial work environment with dedicated support staff, hard money support and the opportunity for involvement on existing grants, and a generous compensation package. The salary and level of academic appointment in our affiliated University will be commensurate with experience. The position will begin on July 1, 2001. Applicants should submit a letter of interest and curriculum vitae via postal service or e-mail to: Jeffrey H. Coben, MD, Director, Center for Violence and Injury Control, Allegheny General Hospital, 320 East North Ave; Suite 214, Snyder Pavilion, Pittsburgh, PA 15212. Email: Jcoben@wpahs.org.
- Jeff Coben Jcoben@wpahs.org
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Closing Quote
"With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope."
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, 1929-1968
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