At a glance
View the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center's (UNC IPRC) ICRC profile and grantee research projects. ICRCs study ways to prevent injuries and violence and work with community partners to put research findings into action. They focus on three core functions—research, training, and outreach.
Contact Information
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Director: Kathryn E. (Beth) Moracco, PhD, MPH
Address: 725 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., CB# 7505, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7505
Phone: (919) 843-6617
Email: iprc@unc.edu
Website: https://iprc.unc.edu
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/unc-iprc
Twitter: @UNC_IPRC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNC.IPRC
Overview
The mission of the University of North Carolina’s Injury Prevention Research Center (UNC IPRC) is to advance injury and violence prevention through interdisciplinary research and training the next generation of injury and violence prevention researchers and practitioners. UNC IPRC conducts innovative research, outreach, training, and education that strengthens and shares the scientific base for injury and violence prevention. UNC IPRC focuses on research translation as an area of special emphasis, developing innovative techniques for translating scientific research into tangible, evidence-based changes in policies and practice since its creation in 1986.
Goals:
- Create multidisciplinary partnerships to advance research and practice to reduce inequities in the burden of injury and violence
- Build the evidence base for injury and violence prevention for translation into practice and policy
- Provide training to practitioners and build capacity to conduct high-quality prevention interventions rooted in and informed by the evidence base
- Support, nurture, and train the next generation of injury prevention researchers and practitioners
Active Research:
- Child maltreatment
- Firearms
- Gender-based violence
- Opioid overdose
- Suicide
- Transportation safety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Violence
2024 ICRC Grantee Research Projects - UNC IPRC
Core Research Projects
- Adverse Childhood Experiences — Programmatic and Policy Strategies for the Primary Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse
- Dating Violence — Optimizing eMoms and Teens for Safe Dates for Implementation and Dissemination
- Opioid Overdose — Promoting Equitable Access to Evidence-informed Pre-arrest Diversion Programs to Prevention Drug-related Harms and Overdose
- Suicide — Improving Surveillance of Nonfatal Suicide-Related Outcomes with Statewide Emergency Services Data
Core Areas
Admin Core: The Admin Core ensures timely communication and collaboration among the UNC IPRC Cores and between the Cores and the Center's Research Projects. It oversees operational support functions, such as information technology support, human resources, fiscal services, physical space, and the virtual environment.
Outreach Core: The Outreach Core builds and sustains practice-driven partnerships within North Carolina and beyond. It develops training and support programs that build capacity in the injury prevention workforce. It also ensures that the Center's scientific products are efficiently and effectively shared to injury prevention communities using tools and messaging that translate readily into evidence-based practice and policy.
Training and Education Core: The Training and Education Core implements university-based education and training programs proven to build competency and applied skills. This is for students, faculty, and staff interested in injury and violence prevention (IVP) and IVP practitioners and researchers.