Acute Care

PI: Corinne Peek-Asa
University of Iowa, College of Public Health
Occupational and Environmental Health

Funding source: NIH/Fogarty

Our University of Iowa training program builds on a successful decade of capacity building for injury and violence research in Romania, where our partnership helped establish the Cluj School of Public Health and its independently-funded injury research unit. Training will be conducted in partnership, demonstrating a successful transition in Romania from trainees to trainers. The aims of our training program are to: train a critical mass of researchers from Armenia, Georgia, and Moldova to conduct innovative research; facilitate the transition of trainees to positions of leadership; develop our partner institutions as sustainable centers of excellence in injury research and education; and, engage partners to translate research into effective prevention and treatment programs.  Based on the needs of our partner countries and expertise of the project leadership, we will focus on three areas: road traffic safety; violence against women and children; and, acute care.

PI: Corinne Peek-Asa
University of Iowa, College of Public Health
Occupational and Environmental Health

Funding source: NIH/Fogarty

The burden of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) disproportionately affects low and middle income countries (LMIC), in which TBI prevalence is high and patients are twice as likely to die from their TBI as those in high income countries. LMICs in Eastern European and Central Asia are characterized by growing economies but relatively poor health infrastructures. The Injury Prevention Research Center and Babes-Bolyai University’s Center for Health Policy and Public Health located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania are collaborating to increase research capacity in three LMICs located in Armenia, Georgia, and Moldova: three countries strategically located between Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. The specific aims are to: 1) identify and describe current TBI data collection practices; 2) develop a comparable TBI registry system; and 3) to conduct comparative analyses of TBI data. The project will be implemented in a number of phases, each of which integrates participatory practices.

PI: Jacinda Bunch, PhD, RN, Associate Faculty, College of Nursing

Funding Source: UI IPRC Pilot Grant Program