Highlights of 2004-2005 Harvard Injury Control Research Center (HICRC) May 2005
Harvard Injury Control Research Center (HICRC) has been extremely active in its eighth year of operation (2005-2006) in the areas of research, training, dissemination, and fundraising. Click here for a listing of the Year 8 Highlights.
2004 Boston Youth Survey Report Officially Released
HYVPC is pleased to announce the official joint release of the Report of the 2004 Boston Youth Survey with the City of Boston's Office of Human Services. The release of this report represents a major milestone in the long-term collaboration between researchers at the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center and city officials from the Office of Human Services and Boston Centers for Youth and Families. For full details about the survey and to download the report, visit the Boston Youth Survey page on the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center website.
Yerby Fellow Renee M. Johnson Wins APHA ICEHS Best Paper Award
Renee M. Johnson, Alonzo Yerby Post-Doctoral Fellow at HICRC, is the recipient of the Best Paper Award in the student paper competition from the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services (ICEHS) Section of the American Public Health Association. Based on her dissertation research, the paper "Storage of household firearms: An examination of women's attitudes and beliefs" will be submitted for publication shortly. Renee will also present her findings at the APHA annual conference in Philadelphia (Session 3113.0: Monday December 12, 11AM)
Second Edition of Injury Prevention and Public Health Published
Co-authored by HICRC Advisory Board Chair Susan Scavo Gallagher and Tom Christoffel, "Injury Prevention and Public Health: Practical Knowledge, Skills, and Strategies" has been updated and published as a second edition. From the back cover: "It is the first book I recommend to students or public health pracitioners for an introdution to the field of injury control. -David Hemenway" The book also include a Foreword by Dr. Hemenway. For more information, visit Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
HPH NOW Features Yerby Fellow Glendene Lemard
The April 15th 2005 edition of the bi-weekly news bulletin for the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Public Health NOW, featured HICRC Yerby Fellow Glendene Lemard. Glendene was interviewed about her research on homicide in her homeland of Jamaica, and her upcoming violence-prevention work in Guyana, which will be funded by the Inter-American Development Bank. More information at: Harvard Public Health NOW