Past Seminars
Past Injury Cluster Seminars
2020 - 2021
Seminars are co-hosted by the Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention (CCISP) and the Policy and Health Initiatives on Opioids and Other Health Substances (PHIOS).
January 25, 2021
Critically examining three intersections of public health injury & policing: traffic stops, death by law enforcement, and opioid overdose indicators
Mike Dolan Fliss, PhD, MPS, MSW, Epidemiology Research Scientist Injury Prevention Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
February 22, 2021
Substance Use Among Victims of Violence
Edouard Coupet Jr, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, Drug Use, Addiction and HIV Research Scholar (DAHRS)
Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University
March 15, 2021
Mass criminalization and incarceration: state violence as response to interpersonal violence
Sandhya Kajeepeta, MS, Doctoral Student
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
April 19, 2021
Injury risk and prevention among people who inject drugs
Ricky N. Bluthenthal, PhD, Associate Dean for Social Justice and Professor
Department of Preventive Medicine, Institute for Prevention Research, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
2019 - 2020
September 16, 2019
Sports-related concussions
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
October 14, 2019
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
November 11, 2019
Cannabis Policy and Injury
Jennifer M. Whitehill, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Promotion & Policy School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
December 9, 2019
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 New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
January 27, 2020 Cannabis impaired driving
Ashley Brooks-Russell, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor, Community and Behavioral Health, Colorado School of Public Health, Colorado University Anschutz Medical Campus
Co-Hosted by The Center for Policy and Health Initiatives for Opioids and Other Substances
February 24, 2020
Linking criminal justice and healthcare data to address the opioid crisis
Noa Krawczyk, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health,
New York University Langone
March 23, 2020
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
April 27, 2020
Substance-related Injury: Random Breath Testing, Alcohol Fuelled Violence and Drug Use
Jason Ferris, PhD, Associate Professor, Centre for Health Services Research, Translational Research Institute, The University of Queensland
2018 - 2019
September 17, 2018 Opioid Utilization and Its Association with Workers Compensation Cost and Return to Work
Xuguang (Grant) Tao, MD, PhD, Associate Professor and Research Director, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
October 15, 2018
Traffic Safety
Catherine Stayton, DrPH, MPH, Director, Injury and Violence Prevention Program, Bureau of Environmental Disease and Injury Prevention,
Division of Environmental Health, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Deena Patel, PhD, City Research Scientist, NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics
November 19, 2018
Applied Public Health – Tackling Diseases of Despair
Kitty H. Gelberg, PhD, MPH, Director, Bureau of Occupational Health & Injury Prevention New York State Department of Health
December 10, 2018
Measuring the opioid epidemic: Surveillance to inform and evaluate a public health approach
Denise Paone, PhD, Senior Director of Research and Surveillance and Michelle Nolan, MPH, Epidemiologist, Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention, Care, and Treatment New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
January 29, 2019
Time out: NFL conflicts of interest with public health efforts to prevent TBI | Injury Prevention
Kathleen Bachynski, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow New York University Langone
February 19, 2019
Assessing the Calibration of the Logistic Regression Model with a Binary Outcome Variable: Problems and Potential Solutions with Big Data
Stanley Lemeshow, PhD, MSPH, Professor, Division of Biostatistics
College of Public Health, The Ohio State
March 12, 2019
Application of Complex Systems Approaches to Injury
Melissa Tracy, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Albany, State University of New York
April 16, 2019
Sports-related concussions
James M. Noble, MD, MS, CPH, FAAN, Associate Professor of Neurology
Columbia University Medical Center
2017
January 19, 2017
The influence of firearm legislation on violence: Evidence from U.S. and international studies
Julian Santaella, Doctoral Candidate, Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
February 2, 2017
Does child maltreatment predict sensation seeking trajectories?
Silvia S. Martins, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
March 23, 2017
The transmission of violence within social networks
Melissa Tracy, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Albany-SUNY
April 27, 2017
Environmental justice, traffic safety, and street design: Preliminary results from New York City’s Neighborhood Slow Zones
Jonas Hagen, Doctoral Candidate in Urban Planning, NSF IGERT Fellow
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
May 1, 2017
Where do bike lanes work best? Using spatial epidemiology methods to improve road safety in our cities
Christopher Morrison, PhD, MPH, Postdoctoral Fellow
Penn Injury Science Center, University of Pennsylvania
2015
September 25, 2015
“Purpose-guided trial design in behavioral intervention research”
Kenneth E. Freedland, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, Missouri
October 23, 2015
“Suicide prevention: The role of emergency departments”
Marian Betz, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine University of Colorado School of Medicine Core Faculty; Program for Injury Prevention, Education and Research (PIPER) Colorado School of Public Health
October 26, 2015
“The changing face of child pedestrian injury hospitalizations”
Stephen Bowman, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
October 29, 2015
“Injury in Sport and Its Prevention”
Caroline F. Finch, PhD, Robert HT Smith Professor, Director of the Centre for Healthy and Safe Sport University of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia and Head of the Australian Centre for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention
November 19, 2015
“No Game for Boys to Play”: Debating the Safety of Youth Tackle Football”
Kathleen E. Bachynski, MPH, MPhil, PhD Candidate, History and Ethics of Public Health
Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
2014
February 20, 2014 “Impact of the Safe Routes to School Program on Pediatric Pedestrian Injuries” Charles DiMaggio, PhD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiological Sciences (in Anesthesiology and Epidemiology) Columbia University Medical Center and Research Director of the Center for Injury Epidemiology at Columbia University Public Health
March 27, 2014 “Dynamic knowledge representation with agent-based modeling: A computational approach to the study of inflammation and injury” Gary An, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery University of Chicago
Co-Sponsored by the University Seminars in Injury Control
April 24, 2014 Mortality from Motorcycle Crashes: The Baby – Boomer Cohort Effect Victor Puac-Polanco, MD, MS, Doctoral Candidate Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
May 12, 2014 National Injury Surveillance Systems – A Conversation with Experts from NCHS/CDC Margaret Warner, PhD and Holly Hedegaard, MD, MSPH, Injury Epidemiologists Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Division of Vital Statistics, Mortality Statistics Branch
May 31, 2014 2nd Annual Regional Conference, Innovations in Translating Injury Research into Effective Prevention
Keynote Speaker: Mary T Bassett, MD, MPH, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
June 19, 2014 Utilizing the NIH Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS)
Thelma Mielenz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Columbia University Medical Center
July 3, 2014 Finding, Casing, Implementing, and Evaluating Exemplary Injury Prevention Programs Richard Volpe, PhD, Professor Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto
September 19, 2014 Safer Streets NYC Elmhurst: A Look at the Ever Growing Problem of Pedestrian/Cyclist Injury Iram Y. Ali, MD, MSc, Research Associate Department of Neurosurgery/Neurocritical Care Mount Sanai Medical Center/Elmhurst Hospital
2013
April 25, 2013 Balance Ability and Falls among People with Lower Limb Amputation Kevin Wong, PT, PhD, OCS, Associate Professor of Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine Columbia University Medical Center
June 5, 2013
Unintentional Injuries among European School Children: The Role of Child Psychopathology and Parental Attitudes Katherine Keyes, PhD, Assistant Professor Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
October 18, 2013 The Evolution of the Injury Prevention Center at Connecticut Children Medical Center/Hartford Hospital Garry Lapidus, PA-C, MPH, Director, Injury Prevention Center at Connecticut Children Medical Center/Hartford Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health, University of Connecticut School of Medicine Co-Sponsored by the University Seminars in Injury Control
November 26, 2013 Safe, Stable and Nurturing Relationships among Children Suspected of Experiencing Maltreatment Shakira Suglia, MS, ScD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University & Jocelyn Brown, MD, PhD, Medical Director, Manhattan Child Advocacy Center and Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center
December 19, 2013 Closing the Gap between Injury Prevention Research and Community Safety Promotion Practice John Allegrante, MS, PhD, Professor of Health Education, Teachers College and Associate Vice President for International Affairs at the Columbia University School of International Affairs