Director: Keshia M. Pollack
Through the Johns Hopkins Education and Research Center for Occupational Health and Safety, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH, CDC) funds a doctoral training program in Occupational Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (OIEP). The OIEP program, housed in the Department of Health Policy and Management, stresses doctoral-level education and training. The program objective is to train independent researchers who can take an integrated epidemiological approach to occupational injury control. The curriculum provides courses in the relevant areas of injury prevention, safety, quantitative and qualitative methods, prevention policy, and behavioral and social sciences. Among the skills mastered are: occupational injury risk analysis, assessment and reduction; injury epidemiology; critical evaluation of research data and recognition of deficiencies in the literature; ability to analyze data and provide recommendations to prevent or control injuries in the workplace. The educational objectives of this program combine the broader foundations of public health measurement sciences (e.g., survey methods, exposure assessment, research/experimental design, intervention evaluation) and health policy with specific training in occupational injury epidemiology and prevention (e.g., injury surveillance, injury control, occupational safety, ergonomics). The OIEP program provides full tuition and a stipend for eligible doctoral students. Since 2002, eight students have been supported by the training program. The deadline to apply for this program is December 1st. Students in the program usually enter careers in teaching and/or research at the university, government or private-sector level. More information on the training program can be found at http://www.jhsph.edu/erc/injury.html or by contacting Dr. Keshia Pollack.
Director: Johns Hopkins School of Nursing professor Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN
The Interdisciplinary Violence Research fellows program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Nursing and School of Medicine offers an exceptional opportunity for students interested in the causes, effects and prevention of violence The fellowships are part of a grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). The goal of the program is to train public health, nursing and medical scholars to address the prevention and identification of violence and its physical and mental health effects. The fellows will be educated in: - family and community violence
- social, ethnic and cultural influences on acts of violence and outcomes
- ethical issues in the conduct of violence-related research
- multiple approaches to violence-related research
- the research base for policy and advocacy initiatives
- securing external funding for violence-related research
- physical and mental health effects of violence
The fellowships include clinical and research experiences in violence,
including optional foci: - HIV/Violence Interface
- Substance Abuse/Violence Interface
- International Violence
The grant supports five fellowships: two predoctoral fellowships in public health and two in nursing each year, as well as one postdoctoral fellowship in either public health, nursing, or medicine. The fellowships include full tuition plus a stipend. The fellowships are for full-time study during the academic year and include twenty hours a week working on a violence-related research project. Application for predoctoral students is through the School of Nursing for nursing students, and the School of Public Health for public health students, including a cover letter indicating an interest in the Violence Research Predoctoral Fellowship. The goal statement for the application should include the student‘s focus area of violence-related research. Postdoctoral applicants should submit a goal statement, CV, doctoral program transcript and two letters of recommendation. For more information, contact Jacquelyn Campbell at (410) 955-2778 jcampbel@son.jhmi.edu
On September 16, 1986, the nation's first fellowship program in Injury Prevention was established at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Endowed through the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety with financial support from over a dozen of the nation's property and casualty insurers, the William Haddon Jr. Fellowship in Injury Prevention is designed to stimulate academic excellence in Injury Prevention by supporting doctoral studies at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
This fellowship is a memorial to the late Dr. William Haddon Jr., a founder of the field of injury prevention, the nation's first head of the federal highway safety agency, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, and founder of the Highway Loss Data Institute.
Interest from this endowed fellowship provides partial support for one Injury Center doctoral student each year.
This scholarship provides partial support to one doctoral or postdoctoral student in the Department of Health Policy and Management whose focus is research in injury prevention and control. Incoming and continuing students are eligible for the award which provides partial support for one student each year.
Requests for applications are sent to Health Policy and Management doctoral and postdoctoral students in January of each year. Information is posted on the School's Endowed Student Support Fund web page. Students must submit a two-page application to the Department which includes a statement describing their work in injury control, along with a copy of the student's CV and current transcript. Application Due Date: February 15, 2009
Submit application to: Susan P. Baker, MPH, ScD (Hon)
For more information, contact: Susan P. Baker, MPH, ScD (Hon)
Contact Phone: (410) 955-2078
Contact Email: sbaker@jhsph.edu The Johns Hopkins University is pleased to collaborate with the Aga Khan University (AKU) in the International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Research Training Program (ICTIRT). The long range vision of the ICTIRT is to establish an Institute for Injury and Trauma Research and Training at AKU that can serve not only Pakistan but other parts of South Asia as well. This grant has five specific aims: To develop a strategic plan for establishing an Institute for Injury and Trauma Research and Training at AKU; To train a small nucleus of experts in injury and trauma research; To train a critical mass of scientists, health professionals and academics in the principles of injury prevention and control To raise awareness among health and other professionals in Pakistan of the importance of injury and trauma research To foster collaboration among injury and trauma researchers within Pakistan and establish linkages with the international injury research community.
The JHU-AKU ICTIRT consists of both long- and short-term training options. Long-term training will be offered to at least six individuals over the course of the five-year project, leading to a Master of Public Health degree from and the completion of a publishable research study. Short-term training options, based in Pakistan, include: (i) introductory workshops in the principles of injury prevention and control; (ii) advanced workshops to provide in depth, targeted injury research training; (iii) on-line courses in topics relevant to the study of injury and trauma research; (iv) an annual research symposium and (v) a series of bi-monthly seminars organized by AKU. Underlying the proposed training program is an existing and strong collaboration between Johns Hopkins and AKU. The collaboration brings together Johns Hopkins’ resources in public health, injury prevention, and EMS/trauma services and outcomes research with the need for training and capacity development at AKU to develop an interdisciplinary training program in the field of injury and trauma research. Principal Investigator: Ellen MacKenzie, PhD
For more information, contact Ellen MacKenzie, PhD
Telephone: 410-614-4025
Email: emackenz@jhsph.edu
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