Center for Injury Research and Policy Summer Institute

About the Center for Injury Research and Policy Summer Institute

The Center for Injury Research and Policy Summer Institute provides training for researchers and practitioners about the science and practice of injury prevention. The Summer Institute includes three courses. 

Principles and Practice of Injury Prevention provides an overview of the filed, including: the epidemiology of injury and violence problems, injury surveillance, strategies and frameworks for injury prevention, and injury policy.

Overdose Prevention covers the epidemiology of overdose, methods for overdose surveillance, and strategies for community-based prevention.

Suicide Prevention offers training to monitor and address suicide at the local, state, national and global levels. The course covers etiological factors and mechanisms of suicide, epidemiology, surveillance, prevention strategies, and promising policies, with an emphasis on suicide risk among vulnerable populations.

Professionals, students, and practitioners from diverse backgrounds will benefit from this intensive training in the public health approach to injury and violence prevention.