Training and Education

The Center offers a Certificate in Injury and Violence Prevention for both degree and non-degree seeking students. The Certificate addresses a pressing need for public health professionals with specialized training in the prevention, analysis and control of intentional and unintentional injuries. 

Students learn the fundamentals of assessing the impact of injuries on public health, identifying groups at highest risk for various types of injuries, understanding the causes of injuries and determining the most effective means of preventing injuries or reducing their severity. 

For requirements and more information, view the full description. 

Each academic term, the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy offers a graduate seminar course on various injury topics. Seminars are open to all. Students pursuing the Certificate in Injury and Violence Prevention are required to register for 305.861.71, Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy, for all four terms (see Certificate for more details). The seminar series is designed to advance your understanding of injury, violence, and resulting disability as public health problems. Each term the seminar has a unique focus, including for example, foundational issues, current research, methodological approaches, unmet needs and emerging topics, as well as the application of policy, law and practice for injury and violence prevention. Students hear from leading experts in the field and read literature provided to accompany each presentation. All seminars will be offered via Zoom; links will be provided at the beginning of each term. 

Center Director Dr. Shannon Frattaroli and colleagues launched a massive open online course (MOOC), Opioid Epidemic: From Evidence to Impact featuring ten online modules that provide learners with evidence-based and actionable solutions to curbing the epidemic at the local, state, and national level. 
 
The course curriculum builds off the 2017 report “Opioid Epidemic: From Evidence to Impact” prepared by the Bloomberg School and the Clinton Health Matters Initiative. Learners can enroll at any time and complete coursework at their own pace. After completion, students will be able to identify data sources for information about the opioid epidemic, identify key pharmaceutical players, understand the impact of prescription drug monitoring programs and explain the roles of prescribing guidelines, safe storage, treatment and reducing stigma. 
 
Enrollment is ongoing. Learn more about the course here. 

The Summer Institute connects participants with public health leaders in injury prevention and control to explore real-world concerns and solutions for injury prevention. 

The Center’s Summer Institutes include courses on Principles and Practice of Injury Prevention and Advanced Seminar in Injury Prevention, which are offered yearly and open to the public. Professionals and practitioners from diverse fields benefit from this intensive training in public health approach to injury and violence prevention.  

For more than 25 years, the Center has trained hundreds of individuals through this unique annual opportunity. Medical care and public health professionals, community advocates and government officials from the local, state and national levels—and from around the world—have attended. The Summer Institutes help to grow the field of injury prevention and control with graduates serving in leadership roles in local, national and international agencies and organizations. 

The Center also co-teaches the Winter Institute course "Prevention of Unintentional Injuries in American Indian Communities" in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health (CIH) and the Indian Health Service Injury Prevention Program.  For more information on this course, visit CIH's website or contact CIH.