Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention 2020 Annual Conference
The 2020 Annual Columbia University Injury Prevention Conference, “Science in Service to Safety”, will be held on Thursday, May 21, 2020, from 9 am – 4 pm. Registration with continental breakfast and networking will begin at 9:00 am. Check back here in late Winter 2020 for the full agenda and registration details.
A Transportation Research Board sponsored workshop titled Strategic Approaches for Advancing Infant- and Child-Occupant Protection: Birth to 15 Years on will be held on Sunday, January 12th from 9:00 am to noon in Washington, DC. This workshop was organized by Joyce Pressley of Columbia University and Maria Vegega, who recently retired from NHTSA. The workshop brings together CDC, NHTSA, academics, consultants, and private industry to discuss existing and emerging issues in infant, child and adolescent motor vehicle occupant protection.
This workshop will examine strategic approaches and best practices for addressing current and emerging issues in infant and child motor vehicle occupant safety across the four critical stages of pediatric occupant protection, from birth to 15 years of age. A broad array of speakers will provide updates and a framework to guide discussion of current and emerging factors contributing to infant and child endangerment, effective interventions, expanded social media communication tools, knowledge gaps, and research needs. Speakers and discussants include research and policy institutions, practitioners, university researchers, government agencies and private consulting organizations.
All of the seminars listed below will be held from 11:30 – 12:30 pm in the Hammer Health Sciences Building (701 West 168th Street, Rm HSC 322). Lunch will be served. Webinar link also listed with each talk.
Ashley Brooks-Russell, MPH, PhD Assistant Professor, Community and Behavioral Health, Colorado School of Public Health, Colorado University Anschutz Medical Campus
Evaluating the Impact of “Stand Your Ground” Self-defense Laws
David K. Humphreys Associate Professor of Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation Research Fellow, Green Templeton College Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford
All of the seminars listed below will be held from 11:30 – 12:30 pm in the Hammer Health Sciences Building (701 West 168th Street, Rm HLL201). Lunch will be served. Webinar link also listed with each talk.
James M. Noble, MD, MS, CPH, FAAN, Associate Professor of Neurology at CUMC, Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain & GH Sergievsky Center, Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center
Sexual Assault on College Campus- Perceptions, Peer Experience, Victimization
Shankar Viswanathan, DrPH, MSc Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Jennifer M. Whitehill, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Health Promotion & Policy, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Measuring the opioid epidemic: Surveillance to inform and evaluate a public health approach
Michelle Nolan, MPH Doctoral Candidate, Department of Epidemiology, MSPH, Epidemiologist, Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention, Care, and Treatment, NYCDOHMH
CO-HOSTED BY THE COLUMBIA CENTER FOR INJURY SCIENCE AND PREVENTION (CCISP)
Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention (CCISP)
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
Department of Anesthesiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University