University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center

Contact Information

Douglas Wiebe, PhD (he/him)
Director | U-M Injury Prevention Center
Director | Outreach, U-M Concussion Center
Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine | School of Medicine
Department of Epidemiology | School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Address: 2800 Plymouth Road, Suite B10-G080, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2800
Phone: 734-647-6125
Email: UMInjuryCenter@umich.edu
Website: https://injurycenter.umich.edu/
Twitter: @UMInjuryCenter
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UMInjurycenter/

Overview

The University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center (U-M IPC) ICRC benefits from the educational, research, outreach, and policy resources of the University of Michigan to address the burden of injury in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region. The U-M IPC conducts, translates, and accelerates injury prevention research into practice and policy to reduce the burden of injuries across the Great Lakes and the U.S.

The Center brings together many disciplines to focus on injury prevention. There are over 1,000 members from over 35 institutions and faculty leadership from more than 14 departments. The Center’s vision is to continue to be a sustainable and evolving Center that conducts research, training, education, and outreach. The engagement of our diverse communities informs our work. The goal is to reduce injuries and violence and improve outcomes for our region and country.

The Center provides the infrastructure to coordinate a collaborative injury prevention agenda focused on the most pressing injury and violence concerns in our state and the Great Lakes region.

Active Research

• Adverse Childhood Experiences
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Cross-Cutting Violence Prevention
• Drug Overdose
• Older Adult Falls
• Suicide Prevention
• Transportation Safety

In each of our focus areas we aim to:

• Address diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in all planned activities with the goal of fostering belonging. Also, in the way our team functions and how we reach the communities most impacted by injury.
• Develop evidence-based, accessible interventions and generating data-grounded injury science to inform policy and practice through research and analysis.
• Provide the infrastructure to disseminate, translate, and connect the vast scientific injury findings created by our Center members and partners to the community using bidirectional communication.
• Expand resources to provide technical assistance (TA) to state health departments and practitioners.
• Provide infrastructure for leveraging additional financial support for sustaining injury science and integrating a larger multidisciplinary cadre of collaborators.
• Train the next generation of researchers/practitioners in injury science, translation, and policy.

2024 ICRC Grantee Research Projects - U-M IPC

Core Research Projects

Drug Overdose - Enhancing the System for Overdose Surveillance through Prospective Spatiotemporal Prediction

Suicide Prevention & Translation - Promoting Community Conversations About Research To End Suicide (PC CARES): Community- Based Factors for Implementation Success

Traumatic Brain Injury & Translation - Athletic Trainers and Remote Symptom Monitoring as Facilitators for Improved Sport-Related Concussion Recovery

Youth Violence - Evaluation of A School- Based Social and Material Needs Identification System to Prevent Youth Violence

Core Areas:

Outreach & Translation — sharing preventive interventions across diverse audiences, forming linkages with both practice and policy professionals for translating research findings, and providing technical assistance to state health departments and public health practitioners.

Training & Education — offering unique opportunities for students and other trainees to gain valuable research, practice, and translational experiences with strong, formal mentoring support as they learn about innovative approaches to intentional and unintentional injury prevention research and practice.