Emory University: Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory

At a glance

View the Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory's (IPRCE) ICRC profile and grantee research projects. ICRCs study ways to prevent injuries and violence and work with community partners to put research findings into action. They focus on three core functions: research, training, and outreach.

Contact Information

Emory director
Jonathan Rupp, Ph.D.

Name: Department of Emergency Medicine - Emory School of Medicine
Director: Jonathan Rupp, Ph.D.
Address: 49 Jesse Hill Jr DR SE, Atlanta GA, 30303
Phone: 404-251-8831
Email: iprce@emory.edu
Website: https://iprce.emory.edu
X: @IPRCEmory
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IPRCEmory
LinkedIn: https://iprce.emory.edu/research/linkedin.com/company/iprce

Overview

Brown brick building in winter with grey sky
Department of Emergency Medicine Emory University School of Medicine

IPRCE has a 30-year history in Atlanta, the State of Georgia, and the Southeastern United States. The program has multiple community, state, and regional partners that provide services and public health messaging to millions of people. Its mission is to advance the prevention of injury, violence, and overdose and promote health equity through community-centered research, training, and capacity building for professionals, practitioners, trainees, and community groups by action-oriented engagement. IPRCE advances the field of injury prevention and reduction through the development of new scientific research and surveillance methods, creation of new knowledge, translation of knowledge into practice, program and policy development, and evaluation of activities or other applications that will ultimately reduce injuries and death.

IPRCE will create and continue to support structures that promote research and programs that align with themes.

  1. Promoting/applying implementation in the development and delivery of interventions, and
  2. Reducing injury, violence, and overdose among historically marginalized and disproportionately affected populations.

IPRCE will significantly advance injury prevention science through four core research projects that will:

  1. Identify barriers and facilitators to implementation of a coordinated model for delivery of Naloxone and Fentanyl test strips to people who use drugs;
  2. Adapt existing evidence-based suicide prevention interventions to make them culturally responsive and trauma-informed for multiply marginalized Black men with access to lethal means; and
  3. Identify implementation barriers and develop tailored implementation strategies that support the adoption and implementation of coordinated hospital-community trauma-informed care programs for violently injured youth.

Outreach

  1. The IPRCE Outreach Core applies the science of communication to translate injury prevention findings into practice and policy, and to help us produce impactful reductions in the top causes of injury at local, state, region, and national levels.
  2. Promote the use of evidence-based approaches to injury prevention including sharing evidence-based prevention or intervention findings, best practices, tools, approaches, technologies, or guidelines with those who can benefit and use them.
  3. Share message development with NCIPC funded programs in Georgia led by GA DPH IPP to create synergy and amplification of messages. Messages follow communications best practices and informed by framing science.

Education and Training

The goal is to identify and address training and educational needs of students, practitioners, faculty, and community partners utilizing innovative teaching, collaborative learning, and new methods of academic didactics.

Advancing Injury and Violence Prevention

  • Adverse childhood experiences
  • Transportation safety
  • Opioid overdose
  • Suicide and Firearms
  • Firearms
  • Violence
  • Intimate Partner Violence

2024 ICRC Grantee Research Projects

Core Research Projects

  • Violence
  • Opioid Overdose
  • Suicide
  • Community Violence

Outreach Core

The IPRCE Outreach Core will apply the science of communication to translate injury prevention findings into practice and policy, and help us produce impactful reductions in the top causes of injury at local, state, region, and national levels. This includes sharing evidence-based prevention or intervention findings, best practices, tools, approaches, technologies, or guidelines with those who can benefit and use them. Additionally, IPRCE will be a focal point for direct engagement and support of communities through the development of our community-based participatory action research support group.

Training and Education Core

The training and education core will identify and address training and educational needs of students, practitioners, faculty, and community partners utilizing innovative teaching, collaborative learning, and new methods of academic didactics. IPRCE will take a multi-pronged approach to engage students, practitioners, researchers, members of community groups with the content needed for each individual audience. Approaches include certificate programs, internships, lectures, hands-on adult learning, and technical assistance with methodologies tailored to audience and needs.

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