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American Public Health Association

Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section

APHA ICEHS Electronic News Vol. 9 No. 1

January 2002

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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 Carolina.

Send copy to Smarshall@unc.edu.
Copy deadline is the 10th of each month.
Submit copy as an MS-Word e-mail attachment, if possible.

CONTENTS

Section News

• Call for Abstracts for Philly 2002
• Congratulations to Lisa Cohen Barrios
• Letter of Introduction from the NATA
• Summary of Atlanta 2001 Program*
• 2001 ICEHS Award Winners*
• Distinguished Career Award: Barbara Barlow, MD
• Excellence in Science Award: Garen Wintemute, MD, MPH
• Public Service Award: Stephen Luchter
• Student Paper Award: Neil Hayes, MD, MPH
• Section Awards - Call for Nominations*
• Section Communications*

General News

• Conference Calendar Available
• 6th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control
• Report Available from Firearm Injury Researchers
• Invitation to Submit Manuscripts to the American Journal of Health Behavior
• KID Website focuses on Children and Product Safety
• Retirement of Don Reinfurt
• Child Passenger Safety Conference*

Position Announcements

• Director, Division of Injury and Disability Outcomes and Programs, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Rural Youth Safety Specialist, National Farm Medicine Center
• Technical Assistance Specialist/Research Associate, Children's Safety Network National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource Center, Education Development Center, Inc.
• Evaluation Specialist, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC, Injury Prevention Research Center
• Professor, Associate Professor, or Assistant Professor, Department of Community and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health, University of Iowa
• Louisiana SAFE KIDS Community Partnerships Coordinator*
• Epidemiologist, The Michigan Public Health Institute*

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SECTION NEWS:

Call for Abstracts for Philly 2002

ICEHS invites abstracts for consideration for presentation at the 130th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, to be held November 9-13, 2002, in Philadelphia, PA. The theme for 2002 is "Putting the Public Back into Public Health". Abstracts submitted to ICEHS should be related to the prevention and control of unintentional and intentional injuries and to emergency health services, including service delivery issues in treatment and rehabilitation.

NOTE THAT THE SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS AT THE 2002 ANNUAL MEETING WILL BEGIN ON SUNDAY AND FINISH ON WEDNESDAY. In contrast to previous years, there will be no Thursday sessions at the 2002 annual meeting. Please take this new format into account when planning your travel. For more information, see APHA's program-at-a-glance http://www.apha.org/meetings/2002paag.pdf.

Abstracts must be submitted via the APHA Web site http://www.apha.org/meetings. The deadline for submitting abstracts to the ICEHS Section is midnight EST on Thursday, February 7, 2002.

Abstracts will be peer-reviewed. Abstracts are reviewed in two general categories: research and program. Research abstracts typically include purpose, methods, results, and conclusions from a research study. Program abstracts typically include a description of the development and implementation of an injury prevention program. Evaluations of injury prevention programs may be submitted in either category.

• Alcohol, Drug Use and Injuries
• Community Interventions and Evaluation
• Current Issues in Disability
• Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response
• Education and Training in Injury Control
• EMS and Trauma Systems
• Environmental Factors and Design for Safety
• Firearms and Injuries
• Injury Control and International Health
• Injury Surveillance
• Innovative Research Methods in Injury Control
• Intimate Partner Violence
• Issues in Fatality Review
• Issues in Injury Data
• Issues in Suicide
• Migrant Workers, Farm Workers and Injury
• Motor Vehicle and Transportation Issues
• Native Americans and Injury Control
• Occupational Injury
• Occupational Injury in Adolescents
• Older Adults and Injury Control
• Policy Initiatives in Injury Control
• Protecting Children and Youth from Injury
• Recreational and Sports Injuries
• Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion
• Violence Against Women
• Violence in the Workplace
• Youth Violence

A two-page summary of the paper must be submitted with the abstract. The purpose of the two-page summary is to provide additional information to help the reviewers judge the quality of your work. The two-page summary should not simply repeat the material in the abstract but should provide complementary details about the background, methods, results, and implications (for research abstract) or background, development, implementation, and evaluation (for program abstracts).

Proposals for special sessions may be submitted and should identify at least two qualified speakers and include abstracts and author ID forms for each proposed paper. Persons proposing special sessions should advise one of the Scientific Program Committee Co-Chairs (see contact information below) of their intention and the topic of the session, and, for future reference, should record the abstract number of each paper submitted for the session.

Each year, ICEHS grants an award for the best student paper accepted and presented at the Annual Meeting. Applicants who are currently enrolled in a degree program or have completed their programs within the last year, and have not previously presented the same data at a professional meeting or published the data, are welcome to participate. Abstracts submitted to the late-breaker session will not be considered for the student competition. To participate in the competition, students must:

• submit their abstract, via this Web site, by February 7, 2002;
• send a letter or e-mail to Dr. Susan G. Gerberich, by February 7, 2002, stating their school, program degree, advisor's name, and expected date of completion of their degree;
• submit one completed manuscript, organized and presented according to a standard peer-reviewed journal format, and four blinded copies, to Dr. Susan G. Gerberich (must be received by September 1, 2002);
• be a primary or secondary member of the ICEHS Section at the time of presentation.

For additional information regarding the student paper competition, contact Dr. Susan G. Gerberich, University of Minnesota (phone: (612) 625-5934; e-mail: gerbe001@umn.edu).

Latebreaker Sessions:

There will two latebreaker sessions, one oral and one poster. A call for latebreaker abstracts will be released around June 2002. For further information about the latebreaker sessions, please contact Dr. Nelson Adekoya, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (phone: (770) 488-4642; e-mail: nba7@cdc.gov).

For Further Information:

Contact one of the Scientific Program Committee Co-Chairs, Steve Marshall (SMarshall@unc.edu), Beth Moracco (Moracco@email.unc.edu), or Anna Waller (AWaller@med.unc.edu).

- Steve Marshall (SMarshall@unc.edu), Beth Moracco (Moracco@email.unc.edu), Anna Waller (AWaller@med.unc.edu).

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Congratulations to Lisa Cohen Barrios

Announcing the arrival of Charlotte Consuelo Barrios, born December 14, 2001, weighing 8 pounds, 11 ounces. Congratulations to Lisa and Arturo! Lisa is a past-chair of the ICEHS Section.

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Letter of Introduction from the NATA

Hello ICEHS members. My name is Jim Brenner and I am the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) liaison to the APHA. I am a member of both associations and the ICEHS Section. I strongly believe the APHA, and particularly the ICEHS Section, have many common interests with the NATA that could be better served by collaboration and the exchange of information.

Certified athletic trainers (ATC) are health care professionals who specialize in the prevention, evaluation, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries to athletes and others engaged in physical activity. Certified athletic trainers work in a variety of settings including: secondary schools, colleges, professional athletic teams, corporate health programs, sports medicine clinics, physicians' offices and industrial health programs. Athletic trainers are nationally certified and recognized by the American Medical Association as an Allied Health Profession since 1990.

Certified athletic trainers have a vital role in primary, secondary and tertiary injury prevention in physically active populations. Athletic trainers and the NATA have been involved in the National SAFE KIDS Campaign since 2000. The NATA has also recently published Position Statements on Lightning Safety and Fluid Replacement. The NATA will hold its' 53rd Annual Clinical Symposia June 14-18, 2002, in Dallas, TX. Previous speakers at the symposia have included APHA and ICEHS members. If you wish to learn more about the NATA and ATCs, you can do so by logging onto the NATA Web site at www.nata.org/.

I would welcome any opportunities to discuss with you any ways in which both associations could work more closely. You can contact me at brenner@voicenet.com. I plan to use the ICEHS newsletter to inform you about NATA related events and news, including the annual symposia and National Athletic Training Month coming in March. ICEHS announcements and events of note (such as the current Call for Abstracts) will also be featured in NATA News. Thank you.

- Jim Brenner brenner@voicenet.com

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Summary of Atlanta 2001 Program

The 2001 Scientific program was co-chaired by faculty at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy: Dr. Andy Lincoln, Ms. Susanne Ogaitis-Jones, and Dr. Maria Segui-Gomez. Dr. Nelson Adekoya, from the CDC NCIPC led the late-breaker abstract review and selection process.

This year's pool of reviewers was much larger than in the past, which combined with the fewer abstracts submitted for this year's conference (about a third less, for a total of 158) meant a much lighter reviewer load for everyone. (And we have transferred the reviewers' information to Dr. Steve Marshall, the Chair of the 2002 scientific program, so plan for some abstracts for the next Annual Meeting to come your way!) We also worked to secure more co-sponsors for our sessions and to become co-sponsors of other sections' activities. We are happy to report that the number of co-sponsored sessions this year was much larger than usual. We hope that this increases the exposure of ICEHS topics among other APHA members.

The on-line process worked remarkably well, and except for a very small number of abstracts lost in cyberspace for some time, that we had to process at a later date, we met all the APHA program deadlines and processed all paperwork with no problems. The Web site also provided a helpful tool to develop individual agendas. Unfortunately, room location was not available until we arrived in Atlanta!

The unfortunate incidents of September 11 forced the withdrawal of several manuscripts and a few no-shows. In the Section business meeting this problem was discussed and it was agreed to lift the 2-year no acceptance policy among no-shows because of the exceptional circumstances.

This summary would not be complete without the acknowledgment of the diligent work and grace of all Section members and friends involved in this program. We'd like to thank everyone for their timely review of the abstracts, their willingness to act as session moderators, and the high quality of their submissions. We also want to acknowledge Carolyn Fowler for her help and assistance in our initial steps in this task. We look forward to being able to help the incoming scientific program committee as Steve, Anna and others take the helm in North Carolina.

- Maria Segui-Gomez mseguigo@jhsph.edu
- Susanne Ogaitis-Jones sogaitis@jhsph.edu
- Andy Lincoln alincoln@jhsph.edu

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2001 ICEHS Award Winners

The following awards were presented in Atlanta at the Section's annual dinner. Congratulations to the awardees. Please see the call for nominations elsewhere in this issue!

Distinguished Career Award: Barbara Barlow, MD

Dr. Barbara Barlow, Director of Surgery at Harlem Hospital Center in New York City, and Professor of Clinical Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, is also Director of the Injury Free Coalition for Kids, a coalition of injury prevention programs in pediatric trauma centers located in major cities in the United States. Injury Free Coalition for Kids is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of Princeton, New Jersey. The Injury Free Program has reduced injury through education, construction of safe play areas, and development and support of safe supervised activities with strong adult mentors. Major injury admissions of community children have decreased by more than 50% since the program started in 1988. The Injury Prevention Program and Dr. Barlow have received numerous awards from the American Hospital Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Department of Transportation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Association, the National Safety Council, the American Trauma Society, the National Association of Public Hospitals, Society of Public Health Educators, Johnson and Johnson, Allstate Foundation, the Foundation for Women in Medicine and the Hospital Association of New York.

Dr. Barlow's research has focused on traumatic injury to children and on injury prevention for the past fifteen years. She is a member of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma and a former member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Dr. Barlow received a B.A. from Vassar College, an M.A. in Psychology from Columbia University and an M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. Her general surgical training was completed at Bronx Municipal Hospital followed by a Fellowship in Pediatric Surgery at Babies Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.

Excellence in Science Award: Garen Witemute, MD, MPH

Dr. Wintemute is director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis. He practices and teaches emergency medicine at UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento (a Level I trauma center), and is professor of epidemiology and preventive medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine.

His research addresses the nature and prevention of violence and the evaluation of violence prevention policies. His recent studies include an assessment of risk for criminal activity among legal purchasers of handguns, a profile of public opinion on gun violence prevention options, an assessment of risk for violent death among recent purchasers of handguns, and evaluations of gun buyback programs and of denying handgun purchase to felons and violent misdemeanants. Dr. Wintemute works with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the United States and California Departments of Justice on innovative methods for preventing firearm violence.

Public Service Award: Stephen Luchter

As an example of the great diversity that makes up injury science, Steve Luchter was trained as a mechanical engineer. After a successful career in the private sector designing advanced power plants, he was hired by the Environmental Protection Agency to lead their program to develop low-polluting steam engines for motor vehicles. A few job changes later found him at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, developing fuel economy regulations. His career in public health started when he was reassigned to the agency's planning office when the agency decided they didn't need engine experts any more. For the next twenty years he devoted himself to developing methods for quantifying injury outcomes, initially motivated by the need for objective resource allocation methods as part of his planning responsibilities.

Mr. Luchter was first concerned with measuring the economic costs of injuries, resulting in his co-authorship of an early agency publication on that subject. Realizing that the economic methods had some inherent limitations, he initiated the development of what has become the Functional Capacity Index. This utility-based index quantifies post-injury function independent of other health status indicators. His most recent efforts have been devoted to studying the behavioral changes that occur post-injury, with an initial effort to determine the incidence of diagnosable psychiatric conditions resulting from motor vehicle crash involvement. Mr. Luchter "retired" this past January, starting a consulting firm, Applied Injury Science. His activities within the ICEHS Section have been primarily in the Policy Committee. He is currently involved with an ad hoc music committee preparing for the social hour in Philadelphia.

Student Paper Award: Neil Hayes, MD, MPH

Neil Hayes received a B.S. in Chemistry from Davidson College, in his home state of North Carolina in 1991. In 1996 he completed medical school at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. In 1997 Dr. Hayes received his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health where his interests centered around the area of firearms and injury control. From 1997 to 2000 Dr. Hayes worked as an internal medicine resident at Boston Medical Center. He remains in Boston where he is currently a combined Clinical Care Research and Oncology fellow at New England Medical Center. His current research is in predictive models of firearms carrying.

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Section Awards - Call for Nominations

The time for submitting nominations for ICEHS Section awards has arrived. The awards, a description of the recognition, past awardees, and the deadline for submission are listed below. You may download the form in MSWord or in Acrobat format from the ICEHS Web site (http://www.icehs.org). Please include a CV for the nominee with the form.

If you have any questions contact Janet Holden at: janetholden@home.com or by phone: (708) 386-7179. The deadline for nominations for these three awards is Friday, February 22, 2002. Applications should be sent to Janet Holden, 747 S. Scoville Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60304, or sent as attachments to: janetholden@home.com

Distinguished Career: To recognize an individual, near the end of his/her career, for outstanding dedication and leadership in injury control and emergency health services with contributions and achievements that have had a significant and long-term impact on the field. Past Awardees: Julian Waller, Jess Kraus, Kathy Christoffel, Leon Robertson, Steve Teret, Pat Waller, Fred Rivara, Ellen Mackenzie, Jerome Barancik, Robert Verhalen, John States, and Barbara Barlow.

Excellence in Science: To recognize an individual, at mid-career, for outstanding dedication and leadership in the science of injury control and emergency health services with contributions and achievements that have had a significant and long-term impact on the field. Past Awardees: Carol Runyan, Ted Miller, Arthur Kellermann, and Garen Wintemute.

Public Service: To recognize outstanding dedication and leadership in injury practice and advocacy with contributions and achievements that have had a significant and long-term impact on the field of injury control and emergency health services. Past Awardees: Art Funke, Sara Brady, David Heppel, Jack Finklea, LoisFingerhut, Sue Gallagher, Rick Smith, Liz McLoughlin, Murray Katcher, AndrewMcGuire, Michael Finkelstein, Billie Weiss, and Stephen Luchter.

The Section will also award an International Distinguished Career Award at the 6th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control in Montreal in May. The same criteria and application format will apply as for our usual Distinguished Career except that the awardee may not be from the United States. Past awardees: Peter Vulcan, Leif Svanstrom, and Dinesh Mohan.

- Janet Holden, Chair-Elect janetholden@home.com

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Section Communications

Just an update on the status of Section communications. Thanks to David Lawrence the ICEHS Section Web site www.icehs.org has been updated to include the new Section leadership. If you are interested in participating on one of the Section committees, please contact the committee chairs and get more involved.

Regarding the Section newsletters, due to a change in the way APHA is doing business, it has made a few changes necessary in our own plans for ICEHS Section communications. The most significant change was the elimination last year of the paper newsletter. As a result, we were producing two electronic newsletters, one by e-mail and one provided through APHA on the Web site. APHA is supposed to notify members by e-mail upon its publication, quarterly. As the continuation of two electronic versions, with separate editors, was not an efficient use of time and resources, we have decided on a new format. The monthly e-mail version of the newsletter will continue under the capable hand of Steve Marshall. Submissions are due to Steve by the 10th of each month for inclusion in the newsletter which will be sent out on (or about) the 15th of each month. In addition, Steve has agreed to submit the Web site version to APHA on a quarterly basis. Steve will send out information regarding deadlines and materials for the Web site version, as articles on the web may be longer and may include photographs or attached documents, in electronic format of course. Please contact Steve if you have information on studies, programs, policies, events, position openings or other items of interest to the Section.

I hope this will assist in making our communications run more smoothly.

- Theresa Cruz, Communications Chair - tcruz@carolinas.org

GENERAL NEWS:

Conference Calendar Available

A calendar of injury-related conferences, courtesy NCIPC, is available at:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/calendar.htm

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6th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control

The 6th World Conference will be held 12-15 May, 2002, in Montreal Canada. Early bird discount registration will continue until 01-25-2002. Presenters include Dr. Sue Binder, Director of the National Center for Injury Control and Prevention, and Dr. Jeff Runge, Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

See http://www.trauma2002.com for more details.

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Abstracts of Injury Research and Prevention Literature Available Online

Free injury literature updates are posted each week to:

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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Report Available

In February 2001, many firearm injury researchers met in Los Angeles to discuss the needs of the field. A document summarizing their discussions was distributed to policy makers in early January 2002.

If you would like a copy of the report, please contact Susan B. Sorenson of the UCLA School of Public Health at sorenson@ucla.edu.

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Invitation to Submit Injury and Violence Manuscripts
to the American Journal of Health Behavior

There will be a theme issue of the American Journal of Health Behavior on the Health Behavior Approaches to Injury and Violence. Karen Liller and David Sleet are the guest editors. The American Journal of Health Behavior is the official journal of the American Academy of Health Behavior and is indexed in Index Medicus. This research-based journal strives to provide a comprehensive understanding of the impact of personal attributes, personality characteristics, behavior patterns, social structure and processes on health maintenance, health restoration and health improvement; disseminate knowledge of holistic, multi-disciplinary approaches to designing and implementing effective health programs; and to showcase health behavior analysis skills that have proven to impact health improvement and recovery. Manuscripts related to these objectives that focus on injury and violence are welcome. Please link to www.ajhb.org for the instructions for authors. All manuscripts are due by March 31, 2002.

If you have further questions before submission of your manuscript please contact Karen Liller at kliller@hsc.usf.edu or David Sleet at dds6@cdc.gov. You can send manuscripts to either guest editor as an e-mail attachment. We prefer to receive manuscripts in Microsoft Word format.

The manuscripts (after being proofread by the guest editors) will be submitted to the American Journal of Health Behavior for the blind peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be returned to the authors for necessary changes. Upon receipt of the final copies, galley proofs will be sent to the authors 10-12 weeks prior to publication.

- Karen Liller kliller@hsc.usf.edu

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KID Web site focuses on Children and Product Safety

A recent Web site www.KidsInDanger.org focuses on issues around Childhood Injury and Product Safety. Kids In Danger (KID) was founded by Linda Ginzel and Boaz Keysar in 1998, after the death of their 16-month-old son, Daniel Keysar, in a faulty portable crib. The organization is dedicated to the memory of Danny and all victims of dangerous children's products.

Their mission is to: 1. promote the development of safer children's products; 2. advocate for a legislative and regulatory strategy for children's product safety.; and, 3. educate the public, especially parents and caregivers, about dangerous children's products.

They are also promoting a new book "It's No Accident : How Corporations Sell Dangerous Baby Products" by E. Marla Felcher (available for $12.56, via a link on their website..part of the purchase cost is donated to KID if you use the link on their site to buy the book).

- Steve Marshall Smarshall@unc.edu

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"Retirement" of Don Reinfurt

Dr. Donald Reinfurt will retire at the end of December after a third of a century (yes, 33.3 years) at the same job and at the same university, namely, the Highway Safety Research Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been involved in many statistical evaluations in such subject areas as seat belt safety; older driver research; make-model crashworthiness; exposure (or denominator) data; utilization of state traffic records data; and crash research methodology. Don holds a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Don feels most fortunate for having been able to work in such an important public health area and with such wonderful colleagues. He does hope to "redirect" rather than just "retire" -- most likely into real estate.

- Steve Marshall Smarshall@unc.edu

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Child Passenger Safety Conference

International Child Passenger Safety Technical Conference: April 20-24, 2002, Sacramento, CA Contact: International Center for Injury Prevention, (800) 344-7580 or visit the Web site at www.cipsafe.org.

This is the only child passenger safety meeting targeted specifically to the technical, advocacy, education and enforcement issues regarding childhood motor vehicle injury prevention.

- Janet Holden, Chair-Elect janetholden@home.com

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editor's Note: applications for the NCIPC position featured below closed January 18, 2002. Given the significance of this position to the field of injury control in the US, we are repeating the announcement. There is no guarantee that CDC would consider applications after the closing date.

Director, Division of Injury and Disability Outcomes and Programs,
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is recruiting a scientist for Director, Division of Injury and Disability Outcomes and Programs (DIDOP) (formerly known as the Division of Acute Care, Rehabilitation Research and Disability Prevention). The individual in this position will have the primary responsibility for overall policy formation, program and research direction, leadership and management, as well as evaluation and quality control for the Division. We anticipate that this position will be a highly visible one, and that the incumbent will be an important leader in our efforts to address the problem of injuries in America.

The DIDOP coordinates a national public health approach for the prevention and control of injuries through: * public health surveillance of injuries, disabilities, and related health outcomes;
* programs to improve state capacity, health care, and medical information systems in order to prevent injuries and related disabilities;
* research on the medical aspects of injury and disability from different causes, health services for such conditions; and
* evaluation of programs to prevent adverse outcomes of injuries or reduce the impact of such injuries on individuals and society.

To achieve this mission the Division has been expanded to include a wider range of issues that cut across unintentional and intentional injury prevention. Key areas of focus include:
* health care issues related to injuries,
* emergency department data and interventions,
* surveillance for and evaluation of outcomes related to traumatic brain injuries and surveillance for spinal cord injuries, and
* support for state- and community-based efforts in injury prevention and surveillance.

This Division currently has a staff of 26 FTE and 2 non-FTE positions.

This position may be filled through a number of mechanisms, such as Senior Biomedical Research Service with a salary ranging up to $161,200, or the Title 42 Distinguished Consultant program, with executive compensation commensurate to qualification and experience. This position is announced as a Medical Officer, Behavioral Scientist, and an Epidemiologist. A recruitment or relocation bonus of up to 25 percent of base salary may also be available.

To submit an application for this position, applicants should follow the instructions on the announcement which can be accessed at http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/jobs/jobs.htm. For additional programmatic information about this position, please contact Louise Galaska at (770) 488-4696. If you have questions related to the preparation of the application, please call Ms. Connie Clayton at CDC's Human Resources Management Office, Telephone 770-488-1874. Applications should be received by January 18, 2002.

- Rick Waxweiler rjw2@cdc.gov

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Rural Youth Safety Specialist, National Farm Medicine Center

The National Farm Medicine Center (NFMC), a program of the Marshfield Medical Research Foundation, Division of Marshfield Clinic, has the following opening:

The Rural Youth Safety Specialist will be responsible for several day-to-day project activities relating to the MCHB-funded National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety (http://research.marshfieldclinic.org/children/). Responsibilities include a variety of advanced health and safety activities, verbal and written communications, and initiatives designed to build capacity for injury prevention activities with maternal and child health audiences at the federal, state, and local level. This individual acts as the primary contact for some of the technical assistance inquiries related to rural health and safety and injury prevention issues associated with youth.

Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's degree required in related field with previous experience in public health, health education, health promotion, occupational safety, or a related field. Experience: Minimum of three years of work experience in area(s) noted under "education" above. Previous experience working with rural and agricultural populations and communities, especially in a prevention capacity, is desirable. Working knowledge of health promotion and health communication principles is required.

Salary for this position: Is commensurate with qualifications and experience and Marshfield Clinic offers an excellent benefit package.

Location: Marshfield Clinic (www.marshfieldclinic.org), located in central Wisconsin, is the largest rural medical center in the United States, with nearly 600 physician specialists working in Marshfield and its 38 Regional Centers in central and northern Wisconsin.

With a population of greater than 20,000, the Marshfield area community prides itself for cultural, recreational, educational, and family activities. Marshfield is located within a four-hour drive of Milwaukee, within a three-hour drive to Minneapolis, five hours to Chicago, and two and one-half hours to Madison, Wisconsin.

Qualified Candidates are encouraged to submit a resume or curriculum vitae to:

Jill Kupfer
Senior Human Resources Representative
Marshfield Clinic
1000 North Oak Avenue
Marshfield, WI 54449
Phone: 715-387-5341
Fax: 715-387-5400
Email: kupferj@mfldclin.edu
EOE/AA/M/F/V/H

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Technical Assistance Specialist/Research Associate,
Children's Safety Network National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource Center, Education Development Center, Inc.

Available: Full-time position (includes benefits) available immediately Education Development Center, Inc.
1250 24th Street, NW
Washington, DC (Foggy Bottom Metro)


Project description: The Children's Safety Network (CSN) is a national resource center funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Bureau to assist public health, school, and other professionals to prevent child and adolescent injuries and violence. The main office is located at Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) in Newton, MA. The advertised position will work out of the CSN Washington DC office.

CSN's goals are to assist MCH and other injury prevention professionals to develop, implement, and evaluate child and adolescent injury prevention programs; collaborate with other organizations and groups; and effect changes in injury-and violence-related public policy. CSN provides technical assistance and training, synthesizes research, and develops and disseminates publications primarily to support regional and state MCH professionals across the US. The Washington, DC office has the lead role in developing and maintaining working relationships with national organizations, in providing technical assistance on all injury topics but especially school-related injury prevention and violence prevention, and in representing MCHB with other federal agencies as requested.

Responsibilities: The Technical Assistance Specialist (TAS) at the Washington, DC office will provide technical assistance on injury and violence prevention. The TAS will organize information and CSN progress in report form. The TAS will provide administrative and substantive support for site visits to state health departments. The TAS will prepare presentations and assist in the preparation of training sessions aimed at public health professionals. The TAS will also assist with outreach to national organizations. The TAS will develop charts, templates, and questionnaires to facilitate information gathering and planning. In addition, the TAS will support senior staff working in the areas of school-related injury prevention and violence prevention. The TAS will also write grants and identify and track funding opportunities. The TAS will research injury prevention topic areas, develop and staff conference displays, and update databases. The TAS may participate in writing articles for publication and will conduct other tasks as assigned by the Washington, DC Assistant Director.

The TAS will work closely with all Washington-based CSN staff, as well as with CSN staff in the Newton, MA office. The TAS will be supervised by the CSN Assistant Director.

Qualifications: Must work well with other staff, have excellent computer skills, and strong oral and written communication skills. Must have the ability to plan, organize, complete multiple tasks, and successfully synthesize research. The TAS must be able to work independently to complete assigned tasks, and be highly motivated to learn new tasks and content. Injury and/or violence prevention knowledge and experience is preferred. Knowledge of program development, implementation and evaluation processes are desirable. Previous employment in a state or local health agency is a plus.

Must have a bachelor's degree in health-related or education field and 2-3 years of related work experience. Master's degree in public health, education, or related field is a plus.

Send resume and cover letter to:

Ellen Schmidt
Assistant Director
Children's Safety Network, EDC
1250 24th Street, NW, Ste. 270
Washington, DC 20037
Fax: 202 223-4059
Email: eschmidt@edc.org

EDC is committed to diversity in the workplace. EDC is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. EDC is a smoke-free environment.

Evaluation Specialist,
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC, Injury Prevention Research Center

Evaluation Specialist for leadership of evaluation program at UNC Injury Prevention Research Center addressing unintentional injury (e.g. sports, home, occupational) and violence (e.g. family, youth, suicide). Requires experience in conducting and publishing quantitative evaluation research, ability to play lead role in evaluation of programs and policies, develop core program, secure funding, translate research into practice, and interact with researchers and practitioners in multiple sectors.

See website for details: www.sph.unc.edu/iprc.

Send letter, CV and names of references to:
Search Committee, IPRC, 204 Chase Hall, UNC CB 7505, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7505.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Professor, Associate Professor, or Assistant Professor,
Department of Community and Behavioral Health,
College of Public Health,
University of Iowa

The Department of Community and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, is currently recruiting candidates for a newly created tenure-track position at the level of Professor, Associate Professor or Assistant Professor.

We seek an individual with a doctorate in one of the social sciences. The successful candidate would be expected to have skills and interest in injury prevention broadly defined. Thus, the person will have experience and/or interest in teaching and conducting research into behavioral and/or community interventions designed to reduce the risk of injury, broadly defined to include mental health and substance abuse problems, interpersonal, social or behavioral problems, unintentional injuries, etc.

The successful candidate will be expected to maintain departmental and university levels of academic productivity in research, teaching, and service, and to collaborate, as appropriate, with persons in related academic units within the college and the university. To this end, the person would likely be involved in the activities of the college's Injury Prevention Research Center.

The College of Public Health currently has 57 full-time faculty, 165 professional staff, and 35 support staff. The college has an annual budget of $28 million, $19.3 million of which is derived from extramural research funds. More than 40 students are currently enrolled in doctoral programs and 120 students are currently enrolled in masters programs in the college. The Department of Community and Behavioral Health currently has 12 primary and adjunct faculty, and 10 secondary faculty representing cross appointments in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, anthropology, sociology and communication studies.

The university is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Women and members of minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

Send letter of application, curriculum vitae and names of three references to:

Peter Nathan, PhD, Chair, Search Committee
c/o Amy Engelmann
Department of Community and Behavioral Health
College of Public Health
The University of Iowa
2850 Steindler Building
Iowa City, IA 52242

Community Partnerships and Violence Prevention Coordinator, Louisiana SAFE KIDS

Purpose: The incumbent, with moderate supervision and in collaboration with EMS/IRP colleagues, applies public health leadership for direct actions to prevent injury.

Minimum Qualifications: A master's degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Public Health, Health Administration, or Industrial/Organizational Psychology.

For more information, call Shirley Kirkconnell at (504) 568-2509 or contact by e-mail at skirkcon@dhh.st.la.us. Mail resume or CV to 325 Loyola Avenue, Room 305, NO LA 70112.

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Epidemiologist, The Michigan Public Health Institute

Public health research organization in Okemos, MI seeks full-time epidemiologist for violence & injury prevention/surveillance projects. Masters degree in epidemiology required. Strong research design, statistical analysis, data management, and communication skills required. Position description at http://www.mphi.org. Competitive salary & benefits package. Submit resumes to: HR Manager, MPHI, 2436 Woodlake Circle, Suite 300, Okemos, MI 48864. MPHI is an AA/EEO employer.

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Closing Quote

"Too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth."

- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)