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THIS MONTH IN INJURY SCIENCE AT PENN
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A spotlight on the Trainee Learning Lab and new injury prevention funding opportunities...
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The Penn Injury Science Center is proud to spotlight the latest cohort of its Trainee Learning Lab (TLL). This dynamic program and CDC Success Story continues to advance the field of injury and violence prevention by fostering a collaborative and insightful learning environment for emerging researchers and practitioners.
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“I feel much more well-versed in a range of injury topics, and I credit these monthly seminars with increasing my interest in injury science and desire to work in this field.”
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Read more from the 2023-24 cohort
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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Wednesday, August 28th, 2:00-3:30pm and Tuesday, September 17th, 10:00-11:30am
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Traffic Safety Data Dashboard Workshop
The New Jersey Safety and Health Outcomes (NJ-SHO) Center for Integrated Data, a partner program at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at CHOP, is excited to offer a Dashboard Workshop on how to use the NJ-SHO Data Dashboard.
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Learn how to use this remarkable linked-data resource that is being tapped for clinical, community, and transportation equity research. This interactive dashboard visualizes, monitors, and tracks important traffic safety measures across communities and over time in New Jersey to reduce injuries and fatalities on its roadways.
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LATEST IN RESEARCH & NEWS
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Firearm Injury Disparities
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Elinore Kaufman, Jamie Song, Kit Delgado & colleagues assessed racial disparities in nonfatal firearm injuries in the US, noting "there are twice as many nonfatal injuries from firearms as fatal ones, so focusing only on deaths misses a huge part of the impact that firearm injury has on health."
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Chances of Firearm Injury
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A team of Rebecca Arden Harris, Terry Richmond, and David Mandell estimated a 12.5% chance that a 14-year-old Black boy in Philadelphia is injured or killed by a firearm by the age of 25, compared to a 1% chance in white boys. The straightforward metric should be used to support advocacy for the implementation of upstream solutions to poverty and structural racism.
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Incentives & Gamification for Safe Driving
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A pair of studies led by Jeff Ebert and Kit Delgado, & co-author Kate McDonald, recently demonstrated that gamification and financial incentives are effective ways to reduce distracted driving.
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Place-Based Changes for Violence Crime Hotspots
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John MacDonald led a review of place-based changes, specifically assessing interventions that focus on violence crime hotspots and with the context of each intervention (i.e., changes implemented by public health departments versus that of housing agencies, redevelopment authorities, street departments, or community-based nonprofits).
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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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Postdoctoral Fellowship, Community Violence Prevention
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The Public Policy Lab and the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University within the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) invites applications for a 2-year Postdoctoral Fellow in Community Violence Prevention. Applicants should hold a doctorate in Criminal Justice/Criminology, Public Health, Sociology, Prevention Science, or a related discipline. Seeking applicants with a strong methodological foundation in mixed methods and applied research. This flexible Fellowship is designed to deepen young scholars’ expertise in policy-oriented research committed to advancing community well-being and reducing gun violence.
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Research Assistant, Minds Matter
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The Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) is seeking a Part-Time Research Assistant to support translational research in concussion care. An in-person schedule with the ability to travel locally between ED clinic and community sites on weekends and/or weekday afternoons to evening hours (times negotiable) to leverage research recruitment success across projects. This individual will provide operational support to research projects within the Minds Matter Concussion Program.
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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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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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Opioid Crisis Innovation Challenge
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The Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) aims to convene and support partners advancing patient-centered, innovative, evidence-based solutions impacting people experiencing opioid use disorder (OUD), their families, and their communities. FORE has released a request for proposals for its Opioid Crisis Innovation Challenge 2024, through which the organization will provide grant support for specific projects that bring an innovative approach to long-standing and complex issues related to all aspects of stemming the tide of the nation’s opioid crisis.
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Applicants may apply for a grant of up to $300,000 a year for up to two years. To be eligible, applicants must be U.S.-based public charities that are tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or nonprofit, tax-exempt universities. The foundation will also consider grant requests from state, local, and Native American tribal government units or agencies for specific charitable projects. Concept notes are due August 8, 2024, at 11:59 a.m. ET. Upon review selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal.
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FORECASTED NCIPC FY25 NOFOs
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Forecasted NOFOs from the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) have not been published therefore, are not yet open to receive applications. Most are published from August to September annually.
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Please click the link to subscribe to each NOFO to receive more information about the NOFO of interest or check out the ERPO website to learn what things grantees should know before submitting a complete application!
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RFA-EH-25-011- Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net): Practice-based research to improve restaurant food safety
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RFA-CE-25-149- Rigorous Evaluation of Primary and Secondary Overdose Prevention Activities Among Populations Disproportionately Affected by Overdose
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RFA-CE-25-021- Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence Related Injury (R01)
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RFA-CE-25-025- Rigorous Evaluation of Community- and Societal-Level Primary Prevention Approaches to Prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Expanding the Best Available Evidence
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RFA-CE-25-026- Rigorously Evaluating Programs and Policies to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Problematic Sexual Behavior among Youth
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RFA-CE-25-027- Evaluate STEADI-based Fall Prevention in Assisted Living Facilities
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RFA-CE-25-028- Effectiveness Research to Prevent Polysubstance-Impaired Driving
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RFA-CE-25-029- Grants to Support New Investigators in Conducting Research Related to Preventing Interpersonal Violence Impacting Children and Youth
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RFA-CE-25-030- Research Grants to Rigorously Evaluate Innovative and Promising Strategies to Prevent Firearm-Related Violence and Injuries
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RFA-CE-25-031- Rigorously Evaluating Primary Prevention Strategies for Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence
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RFA-CE-25-032- Formative Research of Community-led Primary Prevention Approaches to Address Elevated Risk of Intimate Partner Violence & Sexual Violence
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RFA-TS-25-036- Identify and Evaluate Potential Risk Factors for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
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The Science That's Changing Our Lives
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Flaura Winston speaks with Maiken Scott, host of NPR’s “The Pulse,” about CHOP's Center for Injury Research and Prevention’s road traffic safety research, in a special live episode celebrating the show’s 10th anniversary.
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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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