The following fact sheets are developed for use by journalists and the general public to describe the burden of specific types of injury and what the Center is doing to reduce the burden. For more information on these and other topics, please contact Alicia Samuels, director of communications, atalsamuel@jhsph.edu.
October 6, 2009 Symposium “Reducing Drinking on College Campuses: Where to From Here?” Click on each link to access the Power Point presentations of the four speakers.
An experienced whitewater kayaker, Isaac Ludwig had made 10 trips down the Narrows of the Green rapids in North Carolina. His eleventh trip on April 1, 2007, was nearly his last.
When he got to the Gorilla, a 15-foot waterfall that lands on a shallow rock shelf, things started to go terribly wrong. He’s convinced that his WRSI helmet -- the result of a collaboration between the Center and other partners -- saved him in a harrowing fall in which he hit his head on a rock.
