Policy
Our policy resources include policy briefs, handouts, and a communications/ writing policy briefs guide.
Preventing rural injuries and violence: Examples of our work informing prevention in communities
Handout
February 28, 2025
Preventing Distracted Driving in Iowa: Hands-Free Laws
Policy Brief
January 15, 2025
Improving Child Passenger Safety on Iowa Roads
Policy Brief
October 4, 2024
Preventing Youth Violence: What is the Evidence?
Brief
June 2024
Keeping Teen Drivers and Roads Safer
Policy brief
February 28, 2024
Child Maltreatment Prevention: Policies Increasing Eligibility for Child Care Subsidies
Policy brief
June 2022
Child Maltreatment Prevention: Accessibility of Victims Services
Policy brief
June 2022
Child Maltreatment Prevention: School-based Recognition and Response Training Policies
Policy brief
June 2022
In-person License Renewal: An Important Tool to Identify Older Adults with Reduced Driving Abilities and Improve Road Safety
Policy brief
January 2021
Firework Injuries Remain High in Years After Legalization: A Two-year Follow-up
Policy Brief
May 2021
Policy and Program recommendations to Reduce Overdose Deaths in Rural Iowa
Report
February 10, 2020
Writing and Disseminating Policy Briefs: A Communications Guide for Injury and Violence Researchers and Practitioners
Policy brief guide
2019
Transporation and Rural Road Safety: A Summary of Our Work
Handout
March 2019
Agricultural Safety: A Summary of Our Work
Handout
March 2019
Pediatric Injury Prevention: A Summary of Work at the University of Iowa
Handout
September 2019
Inventory of Iowa Opioid Policies and Programs
Inventory
2019
Strategies to End Fatal Bicycle Crashes in Iowa: Policy, Legislative, and Infrastructure Solutions
Policy Brief
2018
Addressing the Growing Opioid Crisis: A Summary of Opioid Work
Handout
May 2018
Iowa’s Anti-Bullying Law: Is it Working?
Policy Brief
2018
Improving Trauma Care and Saving Lives in Iowa
Handout
May 2018
The Prescription Opioid Crisis: Policy and Program Recommendations to Reduce Opioid Overdose and Deaths in Iowa
Report
August 1, 2017
Anti-bullying Laws in 25 States: What is Effective?
Policy Brief
October 2017
Legal Consumer Fireworks in Iowa Corresponds with a Dramatic Uptick in Injuries
Policy Brief
October 2017
Corporate Workplace Violence: What are Current Responses?
Policy Brief
January 2017
Cost of Sexual Violence in Iowa
Policy Brief
April 2012
Costs of Sexual Violence in Iowa
Report
2009
Workplace Violence: A Report to the Nation
Report
2001