Courses, Seminars, and Certificate

Courses

The Center has an extensive list of formal courses that can be taken for academic credit.

Core injury courses include:

Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy
305.861 (Offered each term)
Issues in Injury and Violence Prevention
305.610 (1st term)
Confronting the Burden of Injury: A Global Perspective
221.612 (2nd term, 2nd term online)
Suicide as a Public Health Problem
330.674 (3rd term, 4th term online)
Understanding and Preventing Violence
301.627 (2nd term)
Occupational Injury Prevention and Safety Practice
305.615 (4th term, every other year)
Transportation Policy and Health
305.630 (4th term)
Injury and Violence Prevention: Behavioral Sciences Theories and Applications
410.625 (4th term, every other year)
Childhood Victimization: A Public Health Perspective
330.640 (4th term)
Summer Institutes
305.670.11 (summer term, every other year)
305.865.11 (summer term, offered summer 2020)

To search the School of Public Health's current and past academic catalogs, full course descriptions and current course offerings are available.

Seminars

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 305.861.01, Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy, for all four terms (see Certificate (please hyperlink) 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.

For the 2019-20 academic year, the themes are:

Term One: Injury Control and Public Health: From Basic Paradigms to Major Successes
(meets Tuesdays, from 12:00-1:20pm)

Term Two: Global and Domestic Road Safety: Status of the Field and Future Directions
(meets Mondays, from 12:00-1:20pm)
Co-sponsored with the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit

Term Three: Violence Prevention
(meets Mondays, from 12:00-1:20pm in Hampton House 391)

Term Four: Occupational Injury Prevention
(meets Mondays, from 12:10-1:20pm)
Co-sponsored with the Johns Hopkins Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health
Zoom link: https://jh.zoom.us/j/154544843?pwd=eWpTeTZYMmRMSmpYekZCcS9aUVdoZz09

March 23 - Workplace Homicides in the United States: Current State of Research
Mitchell Doucette, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University
Research Scientist, Connecticut Children's Medical Center
March 30 - The Impact of State Minimum Wage Laws on Occupational Injuries
Molly Merrill-Francis, MPH
PhD Candidate, Health and Public Policy
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health
April 6 - The EMS Response to Emerging Infections: Infection Control in Out of Control Environments
Matthew Watson
Senior Research Associate, Environmental Health and Engineering
Senior Analyst, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
April 13 - Seatbelts, sirens, and broken equipment: an analysis of potential occupational injury of the Baltimore Police Department from a series of ride-along case notes
Abigail Baum, MPH, MSW
PhD Student, Health and Public Policy
Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health
April 20 - Development of a System-Level Checklist to Address Violence Against Healthcare's First Responders
Jennifer Taylor, PhD, MPH, CPPS
Arthur L. and Joanne B. Frank Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health
Director, Center for Firefighter Injury Research and Safety Trends (FIRST)
Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University
April 27 - SAVIR – Flash Science Presentations
- Evaluating the Impact of Baltimore Community Mediation Center’s Youth-Police Dialogue Circle Program
  Rebecca Williams, Research Associate, Health Policy and Management and Center for Gun Policy and Research
- Assessment of Physician Self-reported Knowledge and Use of Maryland’s Extreme Risk Protection Order Law
  Shannon Frattaroli, Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management, Center for Injury Research and Policy, and Center for Gun Policy and Research
- Baltimore’s Underground Gun Market: availability of and access to guns
  Cassandra Crifasi, Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management and Center for Gun Policy and Research
May 4 - Restoring and Reimagining Transit Service in a Pandemic-Transformed World
Jeff Hiott
Vice President – Technical Services and Innovation
American Public Transportation Association
May 11 - Discussion Session - Compulsory for Students Pursuing the Certificate in Injury and Violence Prevention
Cassandra Crifasi, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research

Check the School’s weekly calendar at Johns Hopkins Calendar of Events for specific information about presenter, session title, and room location.

Grading

All students will receive a grade of Pass or Fail. A grade of Pass will be based on attendance and participation. Students are allowed one excused absence; please contact the faculty sponsor if you will be absent from class. Students who miss more than one seminar must seek permission to conduct a review of a journal article in order to pass the course.

Certificate in Injury and Violence Prevention

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 or contact Jon Vernick.