Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy

Contact Information

Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Director: Shannon Frattaroli, PhD, MPH
Address: Hampton House, Room 554, 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: 410-955-2221
Email: sfratta1@jhu.edu
Website: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-injury-research-and-policy
X: @JohnsHpkinsCIRP
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohnsHopkinsCIRP
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/johns-hopkins-center-for-injury-research-and-policy/

Overview

The Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy (JHCIRP) is a collaborative of injury prevention experts whose mission is to conduct innovative research, teach today's practitioners and tomorrow's leaders, and translate discoveries into effective policies, programs, and practices that center equity with the goal of eliminating the devastating and costly problem of injuries.

JHCIRP's vision is for all people to live in a safe and just society where all are free from the burden of life-altering injuries. The mission and vision guide JHCIRP's work.

Goals:

1. Provide the infrastructure to disseminate, translate, and connect the vast injury scientific findings created by our Center members and partners to practitioner and policy audiences.
2. Increase accessibility to new discoveries and existing best practices with potential to exert real-world impact.
3. Train next generation of injury prevention researchers and practitioners.
4. Conduct high-quality research vital to the development, implementation, evaluation, and sustainability of policies and programs that improve the prevention and treatment of injuries.
5. Translate research into practice and that practice informs research by collaborating with a diverse array of health care providers, community-based organizations, government agencies, and institutions, including other academic injury centers.
6. Integrate research and practice into the training and education of injury prevention and control scholars, practitioners, other stakeholders, and the public.

Active Research

• Drug Overdose
• Home Safety
• Suicide
• Transportation Safety
• Violence

2024 ICRC Grantee Research Projects - JHCIRP

Core Research Projects

• Drug Overdose — Xylazine Contamination in the Illicit Opioid Supply: An Emerging Public Health Crisis
• Youth Suicide, Youth Violence & Adverse Childhood Experiences — An Exploratory Psychological Autopsy Study of Suicide Among Black American Youth
• Drug Overdose and Home Safety — Opioid Prescribing, Use, Storage and Disposal Patterns Among Children and Adolescents: A Mixed Methods Approach
• Drug Overdose — Natural Language Processing as a Tool for Strengthening Drug Overdose Surveillance Systems: Implementation and Impact

Outreach Core

The Outreach Core is committed to disseminating the best available evidence to practitioners and policymakers in an accessible and efficient manner, and incorporating practitioner needs and insights into our outreach, training and education, and research activities.

The goals of the outreach core are to:

1. Leverage existing and new partners in collaborative initiatives that meet the current and emerging needs of the injury field, advance equity, and address persistent injury challenges.
2. Create and support an infrastructure that generates and identifies innovations and fosters collaborative opportunities to maximize their impact on injury prevention research, policy, and practice for all.
3. Maximize the translation of research to policy and practice by implementing mechanisms to assure that research informs practice and practice needs inform research and center equity.

Training and Education Core

The Training and Education Core (TEC) builds professional capacity for the injury prevention and control field (researchers and practitioners) by attracting new talent and future leadership, thus ensuring that injury prevention professionals have the state-of-the-art skills and knowledge to address injury problems with innovative, effective solutions. Training and Education Core objectives include:

1. Implementing a slate of activities to provide students, practitioners, early career faculty, and other learners with the opportunities to develop expertise in injury and violence. Training activities will include enhancing our certificate program, intensive short-courses, classes, and workshops; and increasing opportunities for mentored research and applied practical experiences.
2. Developing innovative strategies for growing the workforce of public health researchers and practitioners with expertise in injury and violence, and for enhancing diversity therein. We will accomplish this work by working in partnership with other ICRCs, professional organizations such as SAVIR, minority-serving institutions, schools and programs of public health, and others.
3. Identifying new strategies to incorporate training in injury and violence into academic programs that have not historically included such training, NIH fellowship programs, undergraduate education.