2021 is a year of opportunity and potential for the field of injury and violence prevention and for SAVIR. The tragedies and challenges of 2020 exposed racism, highlighted inequities, and underscored the need for strong, science-based public health leadership and interventions. It also inspired many of us to examine how we, as injury and violence prevention researchers, could improve our approaches, methods and dissemination of findings in order to better address systemic racism and inequities. I am excited to see how these and other issues of import to the field are being addressed at the local and national levels, and across the globe. The 2021 SAVIR Virtual Conference will provide a great opportunity to do so.

The SAVIR Science and Research Committee fosters relationships between SAVIR and research communities, and recommends injury and violence research priorities. This committee is also responsible for shaping the sessions of the SAVIR annual conference. Here we highlight more about this committee and their work.

Shabbar I. Ranapurwala, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health and Core Faculty, UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Iowa Department of Epidemiology

For each newsletter we will be highlighting an organization that is a member of the SAVIR Council of Centers. This month we feature Dell Child’s Trauma and Injury Research Center.

Check out these new publications and resources:

The Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Colorado School of Public Health is recruiting one outstanding early-career stage research investigator to undertake an intensive two- or three-year postdoctoral program of mentored, applied research focusing on the prevention of firearm suicide, including in high-risk military populations.

The deadline for submitting information to be included in the next newsletter is March 15th.

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