Topic: Research

Translating Research into Policy webinar

Overview:

In this webinar, we hear from a panel of presenters on the impact of policy on injury and violence outcomes and health equity. The session reviewed related frameworks, related literature and perspectives from several policy makers, community stakeholders, and injury and violence prevention leaders.

 

Presenters:

Kevin Borrup, DrPH, JD
Executive Director
Injury Prevention Center at Connecticut Children’s

 

Hannah Rochford, PhD, MPH
Transitional Representative
Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) Board

 

Don Hoppert
Director of Government Relations
American Public Health Association (APHA)

 

Rich Hamburg, MPA
Executive Director
Safe States Alliance

 

Raghib Allie-Brennan
Connecticut House of Representatives – 2nd District

 

View the presentation HERE

 

View the recording HERE

 

If you encounter any technical difficulties related to this training, email Safe States at info@safestates.org.

  

 

We Adjusted for Race, Now What?

Overview:

Safe States and the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) have partnered to offer this webinar on anti-racist methods.

 

 

Following the presentation, participants will be able to:
* Distinguish between discriminatory and biologic confounding biases in public health research
* Understand the implications of controlling for race in statistical analysis
* Understand the appropriate and inappropriate practice of using race/ethnicity in statistical analysis

 

 

Presenter:

Shabbar Ranapurwala, PhD, MPH – Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at UNC Chapel Hill.

 

 

Learn more by viewing the webinar here.

 

**Please note that this video will work on the Firefox browser, but not on Chrome or Edge browsers. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

 

If you have questions or encounter any technical difficulties related to this training, please contact the Safe States Alliance at info@safestates.org.

2 Perspectives, 1 Mission: Intersecting Injury Prevention Practice & Research

Overview:

Injury and Violence Prevention Professionals and Researchers work towards the same goal of preventing injury in our communities. However, the approach taken and the language used to reach this outcome can vary greatly dependent on your perspective.

 

This presentation focused on examining the cross-roads of these approaches and understanding how to translate the needs of each group for one another in order to form more effective partnerships, improve research and overall IVP programming.

 

Presenters:

 

Kevin Rix, PhD, MPH
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Penn Injury Science Center
University of Pennsylvania

 

Katie J. Harmon, PhD
Research Associate
UNC Highway Safety Research Center

 

Learn more by viewing the webinar here.

 

If you encounter any technical difficulties related to this training, please contact the Safe States Alliance at info@safestates.org.

Uniting Research & Practice: Opportunities to Engage with Safe States and SAVIR

Overview:

Like peanut butter and jelly, IVP research and practice go together nicely. We have asked Injury and Violence Professionals – both practitioners and researchers to share their work and experience along with highlighting how their work can (or has) bridged the gap between research and practice.

Our goal in this webinar is to demonstrate how to foster and sustain research-practice partnerships over time and help establish collaborations between Safe States and SAVIR members.

 

Presenters:

Peg Ogea-Ginsburg – Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services

Bernadette Hohl, PhD, MPH  – Penn Injury Science Center at the University of Pennsylvania 

Kevin Rix – Penn Injury Science Center at the University of Pennsylvania 

Ashley Lamar – JPS Health Network

 

Moderator:

Dr. Gary A. Smith – The Ohio State University

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Learn more about these organizations, their members and the IVP work being done in practice and research:

Webinar

Powerpoint slides

If you encounter any technical difficulties related to this training, please contact the Safe States Alliance at info@safestates.org or (770) 690-9000.

Equity Data: Where Are the Gaps?

Overview:

Equity and data have always been important principles of injury and violence prevention. But are we truly collecting data that provides an accurate picture of equity or do we have gaps in the data collection? Only through equitable data collection can we develop tailored and culturally resonant interventions to prevent injury and violence across our communities.

The University of Washington’s Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center recently released the “Equity Gaps in Injury and Violence Data Across Seattle, King County, Washington State, and Pacific Northwest” report. While this report is specific to the Pacific Northwest region, it has implications for other regions that are assessing whether current data collection systems are sufficient to capture data on equity.

Please join us for a presentation on Harborview Injury Prevention Research Center’s report findings followed by a facilitated discussion among participants.

Presenters:

Dr. Monica Vavilala

Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics

University of Washington

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Dr. Lynn Stansbury

Affiliate Assistant Professor

University of Washington

 

Continuing Education:

This self-study training is designated for: (1) Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1 Category I continuing education contact hour, and (2) for professionals with a Certificate in Public Health (CPH) to receive 1.0 CPH Recertification Credit.

Continuing education credits are offered for this training for Safe States members. These include credits for individuals who are Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH).

 

Training Instructions:

To complete this training, you will need to:

1. Participate in the training by accessing the Recorded Webinar

2. Complete the Evaluation

 

If you encounter any technical difficulties related to this training, please contact the Safe States Alliance at info@safestates.org or (770) 690-9000.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comprehensive Suicide Prevention – It’s More than a Mental Health Concern

Overview

In 2016, nearly 45,000 lives were lost to suicide. A recent report from CDC tells us that suicide rates have increased by more than 30% in half of US states between 1999 and 2016. The report also tells us that according to data from 27 states participating in the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS, 2015), more than half of people who died by suicide were not known to have a mental health condition; but commonly reported relationship, substance misuse, physical health, job, money, legal or housing stress among other circumstances. To stem the tide of this growing public health problem, a national goal was set to reduce the annual suicide rate 20% by 2025. Meeting this goal will require implementation of comprehensive suicide prevention strategies which relies on a public health approach that goes beyond a focus on mental health conditions alone. Suicide prevention includes everyone in communities across the public and private sectors, from government agencies, to people with lived experience, to employers, to healthcare systems and beyond.

   

 

Learning Objectives

As a result of participating in this self-study training, participants will:  

  • Learn the latest findings on suicide from CDC scientists, State Health Department leaders in suicide prevention, and experts on suicide among U.S. Veterans.
  • Have a better understanding of how suicide is more than just a concern in mental health and that it spans across public health, substance abuse, and injury prevention fields as well.

 

Presenters

  • Jerry Reed, Education Development Center
  • Deborah Stone, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Sheryll Brown, Private Consultant/Oklahoma State Department of Health – retired
  • Kimberly Myers, Utah Department of Human Services
  • Jeffrey Hill, Rhode Island Department of Health

 

Continuing Education

Continuing education credits are offered for this training for Safe States members. These include credits for individuals who are Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH). This self-study training is designated for: (1) Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.5 total Category I continuing education contact hour, and (2) for professionals with a Certificate of Public Health (CPH) to receive 1.0 CPH Recertification Credit. 


Training Instructions
 

To complete this training, you will need to:  

 

  1. Participate in the training by accessing the recorded webinar and additional resources:
    Recorded Webinar
    Webinar Slides
  2. Complete the online evaluation which includes questions for you to report CPH or CHES continuing education credits for this training. Please note, you must complete this online evaluation and its CPH and/or CHES questions in order for Safe States to submit your CPH and/or CHES credits to the respective CEU providers. 
  3. Create your certificate of completion.          

 

If you encounter any technical difficulties related to this training, please contact the Safe States Alliance at info@safestates.org or (770) 690-9000.

Consensus Recommendations for Pedestrian Injury Surveillance (ISW8)

Since 2001, the Safe States Alliance – a national professional association of injury and violence prevention professionals – has convened multidisciplinary groups of experts to recommend improvements to important injury surveillance practices. Its eighth group of experts, known as the Injury Surveillance Workgroup 8 (ISW8), were convened to develop recommendations for improving pedestrian injury surveillance efforts.

 

With support from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the ISW8 has developed a consensus report – titled Consensus Recommendations for Pedestrian Injury Surveillance – that includes 10 recommendations for improving pedestrian injury surveillance, including more comprehensive conceptual and operational definitions and strategies for enhancing pedestrian injury data collection and analysis. The report is designed to provide practitioners – particularly state traffic safety professionals and state and local public health injury prevention professionals – with recommendations for improving pedestrian injury data collection, analysis, and reporting.

 

During the webinar, participants will:
— Learn about 10 new consensus recommendations for improving pedestrian injury data collection, analysis, and reporting; and

— Obtain insights regarding methods, approaches, and data sources that can be used to enhance pedestrian injury surveillance.

 

Webinar panelists:

— Offer Grembek, PhD (ISW Chair), Co-Director at the University of California/Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center

— Michael Bauer, MS, Section Chief of Epidemiology and Surveillance at the New York State Department of Health

— Shenée Bryan, MPH, MPA, Director of Programs and Evaluation at the Research and Evaluation Group

 

Continuing education credits are offered for this training for Safe States members. These include credits for individuals who are Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH). 

Programs and Partnerships to Prevent Gang-Related Youth Violence

The theme for the 2011 ASTHO, NACCHO, & Safe States Alliance webcast series is “Special Topics in Violence Prevention.”

 

Gang-related youth violence is a complex public health problem that can be addressed by using innovative, prevention-focused strategies and strong, collaborative partnerships. Acknowledging the impact of firearms on the lethality of gang-related violence, it is critical to explore the public health role in supporting primary and secondary prevention efforts to minimize violence-related firearm deaths and injuries that continue to disproportionately affect youth. This webcast features presentations by professionals and experts that are actively implementing programs in their states and communities to prevent gang-related violence. During this webcast, speakers address the national burden of firearm-related injuries among youth, describe programs currently being implemented to prevent gang-related violence and enhance youth empowerment, and provide insights on how to address the challenges of delivering effective violence prevention programs that utilize a public health approach.

 

The three webinars in this series are: Webinar 1: Using Policy to Prevent Teen Dating Violence; Webinar 2: Exploring the Intersection: Enhancing Active Living through Violence Prevention; Webinar 3: Programs and Partnerships to Prevent Gang-Related Youth Violence

 

Continuing education credits are offered for this training for Safe States members. These include credits for individuals who are Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH). 

Learn Your Concussion ABCs: Addressing Concussions in School Settings

During this webinar, CDC and Safe States Alliance present new and free resources that will help you: *Know the signs, symptoms and affects of a concussion on students K-12. *Know how to prevent and respond to concussions in school. *Explore school-wide approaches to addressing concussion. *Learn ways to support individual students returning to school after a concussion.

Health Equity & Social Justice: Changing the Narrative to Prevent Injuries & Violence

Part 2 of this two-part webinar series on Injury, Violence, Health Equity & Social Justice.

The second webinar in the 2014-2015 ASTHO-NACCHO-Safe States webinar series examined the social and political systems that generate health inequities, and showed how a local health department is working on these inequities through programs relevant to injury and violence prevention.

The Politics of Health Inequity: Public Narrative and Social Justice

Richard Hofrichter, PhD explored how racism and class exploitation are fundamental causes of health inequity, and how the dominant public narrative obscures imbalances in political power and serves to limit public health-driven solutions to programs and services instead of widespread social changes.

Taking Action to Achieve Health Equity: The Alameda County Public Health Department

Katherine Schaff, MPH discussed why the Alameda County Public Health Department (Oakland, CA) is focused on social inequities and health equity, how it promotes health equity through a comprehensive community-centered local policy agenda, and what it took to get there. She provided an overview of ACPHD’s work, including its Place Matters local policy initiative and other concrete examples of working on underlying social inequities.

 

Continuing education credits are offered for this training for Safe States members. These include credits for individuals who are Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH). 

Evaluating Web-Based Public Health and Public Awareness Campaigns

The theme for the 2012 ASTHO, NACCHO, & Safe States Alliance webcast series is “Using Communication and Media to Prevent Injuries & Violence.”

This is the third webinar in the three-part series. Evaluating public health interventions is a necessary step in determining health improvement. Results from robust evaluations assist public health professionals in identifying the links between program inputs, activities, and outcomes to guide improvement and drive behavior change. The same is true for web-based and multimedia public health campaigns, especially as they are becoming increasingly more common. Evaluating the effects of exposure to public awareness campaigns helps understand how these programs can supplement evidence-based programs, or serve as a standalone strategy for engaging target audiences.

 

Highlighting examples from public awareness campaigns and web-based social media projects, this webcast will:

  • Describe methods for evaluation and measurement
  • Learn how public health agencies have engaged communities and stakeholders through web-based and social media platforms
  • Discuss the development and outcomes of public health campaigns in the context of promoting mental health, and preventing child abuse and neglect;
  • Review methods for collecting data during social media events (e.g., live Twitter chats)

 

The three webinars in this series are: Webinar 1: Making the Front Page: Using Media Strategies to Promote Injury and Violence Prevention Programs, Webinar 2: #Prevention: How State and Local Health Departments Can Capitalize on Social Media, Webinar 3: Evaluating Web-Based Public Health and Public Awareness Campaigns

 

Continuing education credits are offered for this training for Safe States members. These include credits for individuals who are Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH). 

State of the States: 2011 Report Findings

The State of the States: 2011 Report highlights results from the Safe States Alliance 2011 State of the States survey, the only national assessment of capacity among state public health injury and violence prevention programs in the United States. The survey provided essential information based on the five core components identified by the Safe States Alliance as critical to the development, growth, and sustainability of innovative and effective state IVP programs. They included: * Building a solid infrastructure; * Collecting and analyzing data; * Designing, implementing, and evaluating programs; * Providing technical support and training; and * Affecting public policy. This webinar conveyed: * Key findings from the 2011 report, including the most up-to-date and comprehensive information about the structure, organization, people, resources, and work of state injury and violence prevention programs; and * Comparisons to trended data from the 2005, 2007, and 2009 surveys in order to highlight changes and achievements accomplished by state injury and violence prevention programs over time.

 

The video in this self-study may not work properly as appropriate software may no longer be available to support it – causing an error stating “Missing codec – This item was encoded in a format that’s not supported”. Audio and Powerpoint slides are still available and meet the requirements for receiving CHES and CPH credits. If you experience issues, please direct questions to info@safestates.org.