It is an incredible honor to become the President of SAVIR, a society of professionals who are committed to advancing violence and injury research around the world. I thank you for your trust in leading this organization. I am also excited about the opportunities for us to make the world healthier and safer.

Thanks to all who joined the 2022 conference in Washington, DC! The Conference Planning Committee has been reviewing the feedback from the 2022 annual conference and discussing ways to build on its successes, address constructive feedback and innovate next year.

Injury Prevention Center at Connecticut Children’s
Director: Kevin Borrup, DrPH, JD, MPA @borrup
Organizations Twitter handle: @ctchildrens
Year Organization/Center was founded: The Injury Prevention Center was founded in 1990 and joined the children’s hospital when it opened in 1996.
City/state where the Organization/Center is located: Hartford, Connecticut

Archana Kaur, MPH is a Senior Research Associate at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Center for Injury Research and Policy

registration and scholarship applications open

The Kempe Center is excited to host our annual one-week in-person Summer Interdisciplinary Research Institute from August 22, 2022 to August 26, 2022. Our Institute will feature intensive teaching and dedicated mentoring by national and international experts. One of our primary goals is to expand the pool of scholars trained to conduct child maltreatment research. We are actively recruiting participants for our Course 2: Challenges in Child Maltreatment Research.

OSE - MA Dept. of Public Health

Seeking a dynamic and self-motivated individual to contribute to the administrative coordination and program management for work related to child and youth violence prevention. In addition to providing program support, this person will be an integral part of the contract management processes.

MA Dept. of Public Health

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) seeks a qualified candidate interested in public health and drug overdose data surveillance within the Injury Surveillance Program (ISP). This position will be responsible for the collection, abstraction, and coding of data into the State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS) for unintentional and undetermined intent drug overdose-related deaths.

This new course, developed by the AAP is designed to help build health care practitioner counseling skills in firearm injury prevention. The course contains 6 provider - patient scenarios, as well as educational materials focused on demonstrating how health care providers can deliver firearm injury prevention counseling in the office setting. It really is a comprehensive training that takes about 45 minutes. Anyone can take part in the course - it is great additional training for any of us. Plus, you can receive MOC Part 2 credit!