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THIS MONTH IN INJURY SCIENCE AT PENN
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Gun Violence Awareness Day, a new traffic safety dashboard, and upcoming events...
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Toll the Bell - a call to action in Philadelphia
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This Friday, June 7th @ 1pm, bells will be ringing across the Philadelphia area: a cry for peace. Toll the Bell is an event organized by Penn Live Arts, with many partnerships, marking the culmination of a year-long campaign to bring greater awareness to the gun violence epidemic affecting our city and the entire country.
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The major city-wide sound installation will last 5 minutes and include more than 40 sound partners (click to see map) who will ring bells and make other sounds, and promises to be the largest community-wide event to support National Gun Violence Awareness Day in the city.
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"Sound has been used for centuries to alert communities of danger and to call neighbors together to share moments of reflection, worship, or celebration. Truly, no city in America is more connected to the imagery, history, and symbolism of the bell than Philadelphia."
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Take five minutes on Friday, June 7 to listen, visit a partner site to reflect, pray, or honor our fellow citizens who have been victims in whatever way is meaningful to you. Make a sound along with us or learn more about ways you can get involved.
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Connect while the bells are ringing. Tell us, in just one word, what do you feel while you hear the bells? Record a video or share a post with your word and use #tollthebell.
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June 7 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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Toll the Bell
3680 Walnut St (Annenberg Center Outdoor Plaza) and also citywide in Philadelphia
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Take five minutes on Friday, June 7 to listen, visit a partner site to reflect, pray, or honor our fellow citizens who have been victims in whatever way is meaningful to you. Make a sound along with us or learn more about ways you can get involved.
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Connect while the bells are ringing. Tell us, in just one word, what do you feel while you hear the bells? Record a video or share a post with your word and use #tollthebell.
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June 7 @ 9:00 am - 5:30 pm (Eastern)
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Preventing Firearm Injury Through Purpose & Policy
This conference brings together a diverse range of stakeholders to discuss themes — such as secure storage, community violence prevention, advocacy, education, and community interventions — aimed at addressing the multifaceted challenge of firearm injuries. Our goal is to generate actionable recommendations and initiatives to curb this epidemic. Join us as we work toward a safer, healthier future for all.
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Gun Violence Prevention Webinar Series
The National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research is hosting a series of public webinars highlighting recent insights into gun violence prevention. Leading researchers supported by the collaborative discuss these findings and their policy implications. Webinars are moderated by NCGVR director Andrew Morral.
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- July 9, 2024: Community Firearm Violence Exposure and Weapon Carrying
- Oct 8, 2024: New Findings on Firearms Violence in the U.S.
Recordings of past webinars can be viewed here.
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Safe States 2024
Hundreds of professionals and advocates from state, local, and tribal health, hospitals and healthcare, research and academia, community-based organizations, and the federal government come together to share best practices and innovative solutions, discuss emerging issues and new research, and hone their competencies in injury and violence prevention.
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National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms - call for abstracts is open
The 2024 National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms aims to bring attention and focus to the current state of the science and research on firearm related harms across the lifespan.
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The call for abstracts is now open for workshop, symposium, oral and poster submissions on research encompassing all aspects of firearm-related harms.
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LATEST IN RESEARCH & NEWS
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Nominate an Outstanding Firearm Injury Paper
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Have you published a paper in a peer-reviewed journal after July 1, 2022, with its focus on U.S. firearm injury, firearm violence, or their prevention? The Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms and the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research (NCGVR) are pleased to accept nominations for the first annual Greenwald Family Award for Firearm Violence and Injury Prevention Research Excellence. Papers must significantly advance understanding of firearm-related harms and show evidence of or potential for improving policies or programs.
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You can't nominate a paper on which you are a co-author, but the Penn Injury Science Center may be able to nominate you! Contact us and share a link to your eligible article.
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Submit to Special Issue on Gun Violence Prevention
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Inquiry is accepting submissions to a special issue devoted to improving the evidence base for gun violence prevention strategies designed to operate at the neighborhood and community level. This will be a true or “gold” open-access issue that involves author fees, but some funding is available to help authors cover the fee, and we hope that makes it possible to support young scholars, post-docs, doctoral students, etc.
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Parsing the Evidence
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Terry Richmond moderated a panel of top experts in the field of firearm violence, making sense of "what works and what doesn't" in the prevention of firearm deaths. Federal research dollars are now being reinvested into the topic after a more than 20-year ban effected by the Dickey Amendment.
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Driver Algorithm Accuracy
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A validation study led by Jeff Ebert, Kate McDonald, and Kit Delgado demonstrated that a widely used algorithm for classifying driver trips vs. passenger trips using smartphone kinematics was 97% accurate and robust to a variety of phone characteristics, vehicle features, and driving habits.
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Assault Data Opportunity
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Millan AbiNader led a study that demonstrated that an established national dataset - the National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) - can be used to surveil domestic assaults in communities and respond to population-specific needs.
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Secure Storage Financials
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Time for New Questions?
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"These HOLC maps will undoubtedly remain part of how we understand structural racism in the United States. The question now is how we change the current realities and examine empirically, as clinicians and health researchers, how racism and economic exclusion broadly manifest in the spatial nature of firearm violence risk," Sara Jacoby and Gina South write in an Annals of Internal Medicine editorial.
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Community as Equal Partners in Research
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Center for Integrated Data and the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety (HTS) introduce njsho.chop.edu, a public-facing website that features an interactive data dashboard that enables users to visualize, monitor, and track important traffic safety measures across communities and over time to reduce injuries and fatalities on NJ roadways.
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With the proper gear, respect for the rules, and smart choices about when and where they ride, you can set your kids up to have fun and stay safer out on their bikes.
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Have you received funding support or infrastructure support from the Penn Injury Science Center? If yes, the CDC funding needs to be acknowledged! Refer to this guide to know when and how you should cite the PISC R49 Center grant (R49CE003083).
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Co-sponsored by Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and the Undergraduate Assembly, the photo booth is open during regular Career Services business hours, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Located in the Career Services office, the first come, first serve photo booth — called the Iris Booth — can be used by Penn undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, alumni, faculty, and staff for high-quality headshots.
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With our commitment to develop future generations of injury scientists across disciplines, the Penn Injury Science Center (PISC) provides statistics support for projects that are focused on the core mission of PISC and for which extramural resources are not currently available. Postdocs, clinical fellows, and early stage faculty that are affiliated with PISC are eligible for this benefit. This program offers statistical consultation through the BECCA Lab (Biostatistics, Evaluation, Collaboration, Consultation, and Analysis) at Penn Nursing. This could be a one-time consultation for a specific question or a series of meetings to support a project. See document linked above for more information.
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Johns Hopkins Graduate Institute
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The 42nd Graduate Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics will be held at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (online), from June 10 – June 28, 2024. The Epi Biostat Summer Institute offers intensive short courses focused on research methods and public health practice, highlighting epidemiologic and statistical concepts and methodology.
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Project Assistants, School Safety
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The Office of School Safety has established a special initiative to address youth violence and gang involvement in and around schools – the Youth Violence Reduction Initiative (YVRI). YVRI is an implementation of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Comprehensive Gang Model in a school setting. YVRI seeks to prevent and address youth violence and gang involvement among students enrolled in the School District of Philadelphia.
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2 Project Assistants will work at John Bartram High School and 2 Project Assistants will work at Overbrook High School. If you have questions about the position, please contact Dr. Brandy Blasko by email at bblasko@philasd.org.
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Communications Director, Center for Health Justice
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The Communications Director is a unique opportunity to help devise and execute a comprehensive communications strategy that promotes the vision, builds the reputation, and expands the impact of the newly formed Center for Health Justice (CHJ), whose vision is to achieve health through racial, economic, and environmental justice for Black, Brown, and other people and neighborhoods harmed by structural inequities. The Center sits within the Center for Health Care Transformation and Innovation (CHTI) and has two focus areas – transformation of health systems operations (Health Justice Transformation) and rigorous research and community action (Urban Health Lab).
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Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics Faculty Positions
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The Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine brings together experts in three basic sciences to generate knowledge that improves health for all by formulating important research questions; producing and deciphering biomedical and population-health data; and developing, applying, and teaching state-of-the-art research methods.
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Community Health Fellowships
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Our program partners with non-profit organizations (called host sites) to place NHC members in Community Health Worker, Digital Health Navigator, and Medical Interpreter roles that support organizational capacities to address health inequities.
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Current NHC: CHF member positions include:
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DataLab CoLab Coordinator
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DATA Co-Lab is a data-informed community engagement initiative hosted by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office in the District Attorney’s Transparency Analytics (DATA) Lab and is funded by Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency “PCCD”. This initiative fosters partnerships between the DATA Lab and community-based organizations by hosting monthly workshops to provide data tools and engage in participatory research exercises. The main priorities of the DATA Co-Lab are: 1) to enhance the community partners’ capacity to use data to inform programming and advocacy efforts within their communities and 2) to elevate the experiences of community stakeholders and needs of various communities to inform DAO data analysis and data-driven policymaking. This project is intended to be place-based and community-driven.
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention, Office of Justice Programs
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With this solicitation, the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) seeks to prevent and reduce violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based community-based violence intervention and prevention programs. These programs include efforts to address gang and gun violence, based on partnerships among community residents, local government agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations, law enforcement, hospitals, researchers, and other community stakeholders.
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Firearm Injury Prevention in Community Healthcare Settings (R01)
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The purpose of this initiative is to advance research that reduces firearm injury and disparities through the development and evaluation of firearm injury primary prevention interventions leveraging community healthcare settings. Projects that include translation into routine practice are also invited. Following the public health model from the 2019 Medical Summit on Firearm Injury Prevention, primary prevention refers to events happening prior to discharge of a firearm, such as safe firearm storage and handling, safety training, screening, community-building and investment, and programs addressing social determinants of health or unmet social needs. Prevention interventions at multiple levels are needed to address firearm morbidity and mortality due to both intentional injury (including suicide) and unintentional injury. Under this initiative, NINR is interested in novel and creative approaches to firearm injury prevention that capitalize on community healthcare settings, to identify risk factors; reduce exposure risk in individuals, families, and populations; prevent injury or reoccurrence of injury; and mitigate disparities.
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Multi-Sectoral Preventive Interventions
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The Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) and participating National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutes, Centers, and Offices have announced the following notices of funding opportunities for the Multi-Sectoral Preventive Interventions Research Network, APPLY BY AUGUST 5:
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- PAR-24-053: Multi-sectoral preventive interventions that address social determinants of health in populations that experience health disparities (UG3/UH3, Clinical Trial Required)
- RFA-OD-24-006: Coordinating Center to Support Multi-Sectoral Preventive Interventions that Address Social Determinants of Health in Populations that Experience Health Disparities (U24, Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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Distracted Driving
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Kit Delgado was a panelist in this session at the 2024 Lifesavers Conference on Roadway Safety which explored how technology helps assess crash rates caused by distraction, improve data collection & promote safer driving habits.
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"Science isn't finished until it's communicated"
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About Us
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The Penn Injury Science Center is funded by a grant from the CDC and brings together university, community, and government partners around injury and violence intervention programs with the greatest potential for impact. We promote and perform the highest quality research, training and translation of scientific discoveries into practice and policy in order to reduce injuries, violence, and their impact to our region, the US, and locations around the world.
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