Injury Prevention Research Center

The Barbara and Richard Csomay Center for Gerontological Excellence, an interprofessional center housed in the UI College of Nursing, is leading the way to support and improve the care of older adults throughout Iowa. Here is how the Center addresses injuries and violence among older Iowans, what puts older Iowans in rural communities at risk, and what resources…

Last year Dr. Charles Jennissen, a pediatric emergency medicine physician in the University of Iowa Department of Emergency Medicine and the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, was the lead author of an American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement with recommendations to prevent child and youth ATV-related injuries and deaths. Here, he discusses how adult-sized ATVs,…

Dr. Rachel Young and her co-author, Dr. Melissa Tully, found that adolescents who said their parents had a more autonomy-supportive style (versus a controlling style) felt more comfortable discussing online experiences with their parents and reported fewer risky online experiences. She discusses what current research says about monitoring adolescents’ digital media use and taking away…

Dr. Lucy Wibbenmeyer talks about the dangers of frostbite and the importance and challenges of frostbite injury prevention research.

As a new year begins, we are especially thankful to our dedicated colleagues and partners throughout Iowa and around the world who are making our communities safer and saving lives – by conducting research, doing outreach work, or training the next generation of injury and violence prevention professionals. Here, we look back at some of…

On November 18th safety advocates at University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital in Iowa City will be promoting injury prevention, including safer storage of guns, by handing out educational materials and encouraging safety items for sale (like gun locks) at the hospital’s Safety Store . In 2020, firearm-related injuries became the leading cause of…

Three new videos from the UI Injury Prevention Research Center highlight how the center’s pilot grant program has helped University of Iowa faculty and students grow injury & violence prevention (IVP) research. Examples include artificial intelligence (AI) to study older adult falls, bicycle and pedestrian behaviors in a virtual environment, and disaster preparedness in an…

Priyanka Vakkalanka is an assistant research scientist in the UI Department of Emergency Medicine who researches suicide and substance use disorders. Here, she talks about how Mobile Crisis Outreach (MCO) programs help those in a mental health crisis, how MCOs can benefit rural communities, and how innovative hospital-based units help provide immediate care.

Farming is vital to our society by providing food and raw materials, but comes with unique hazards that put farmers, their families, and farm workers at risk for injuries and death – both which are preventable.

Dr. Nick Mohr talks about how Emergency Department (ED) readiness affects children with traumatic injuries and how telemedicine networks between rural hospitals and telehealth providers are helping severely injured rural patients.