Strategies for Prevention of Bombing Injuries

Description

William Haddon Jr., MD, created a list of 10 basic strategies in minimizing everyday injuries. In this training, you will hear Professors Baker and Runyan explain how to use his 10 basic strategies and his "Haddon Matrix" to reduce injuries that may occur as a result of terrorist acts.

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Topic 1: Strategies for Preventing Bombing Injuries: The Legacy of William Haddon Jr., MD

• Part 1: Threats Posed by Building Bombings
• Part 2: Application of Haddon’s Ten Basic Strategies and the Haddon Matrix
• Part 3: Strategies for Prevention of Bombing Injuries

Trainer

An epidemiologist specializing in injury prevention, Professor Baker was the first director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. Her research includes motor vehicle occupant and pedestrian deaths among children and adults; fatalities related to aviation, motorcycles and heavy trucks; carbon monoxide poisoning; drowning; childhood asphyxiation; house fires; falls in the elderly; homicide; suicide; fatal occupational injuries; and injury-severity scoring. She is well known for developing the widely used Injury Severity Score and for authoring the Injury Fact Book. A licensed private pilot, her aviation research includes analyses of crashes in the Colorado Rockies and research on commuter aircraft crashes and on crashes of instructional flights. She served on the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board in 1996-2000.

Professor Baker is an ardent advocate of policy changes that will prevent injuries. Much of her teaching and research is designed to influence the legislators, administrators, media representatives and others whose decisions can determine the likelihood of injury for thousands of people.

She holds joint appointments at the School of Medicine, in the Departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine.

Carol W. Runyan received her BA in biology from Macalester College in 1972, her MPH at the University of Minnesota in 1975 and her PhD in health education from the University of North Carolina in 1983, with a minor in epidemiology. In 1980-82 she was a predoctoral fellow in the Bush Institute for Child and Family Policy at the UNC's Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center. In 1986, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in injury epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Dr. Runyan is professor of health behavior and health education at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and of pediatrics in the School of Medicine. She has been director of the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center since 1989. She also holds an adjunct faculty position in the UNC Department of Epidemiology. Dr. Runyan teaches courses in injury control and the conceptual basis of public health, and she supervises doctoral- and masters-level student research on a wide range of injury topics. Her interests are broad; her current research is focused on occupational homicide, work injuries among youth and safety in the home environment.

Dr. Runyan is a member of the editorial board of Injury Prevention. She has been an advisor to the Center for Chronic Disease Division of Adolescent and School Health on the development of guidelines for school safety, and a member of the CDC Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control. Dr. Runyan has been a health education practitioner at the local level and an active planner and advisor of state-level injury programs. Her efforts to bridge research and practice resulted in her being awarded in 1996 the Outstanding Service Award of the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association. In 1998, she was awarded the first Excellence in Science Award from the American Public Health Association Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section and in 1999 was inducted into the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars. Dr. Runyan was awarded the Secretary of Defense Metal for Outstanding Public Service in 2003 for her service as a member of the Armed Forces Epidemiology Board.