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91ɫƵ Comprehensive Injury Center - Division of Injury Science

The Division of Injury Science in the Comprehensive Injury Center (CIC) at the 91ɫƵ is dedicated to advancing research and programmatic work that increases the understanding and awareness of factors that contribute to injury and violence. Through their work, they also seek to develop and support innovative injury and violence prevention programs that meet the needs of communities across Wisconsin to reduce injury disparities.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Research

The Division of Injury Science oversees the research portfolio of the CIC.
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Seed Project Funding
The Division of Injury Science's Seed Project Funding Program funds three projects for $25,000 each year focused on reducing injury disparities. The purpose of the Seed Projects is to provide data or supporting information to facilitate a federal grant proposal (e.g., NIH, CDC, AHRQ) planned to be submitted within six months of the end of the project.
CDC ICRC Funded Research Projects
Through its CDC Injury Control Research Center (ICRC) grant, the CIC funds four research projects intended to fill gaps in the evidence base for developing and evaluating new injury control interventions and improving translation of effective interventions. The current projects focus on prevention of traumatic brain injury, opioid overdose, firearm violence, and suicide. To learn more about the projects, visit About the 91ɫƵ Comprehensive Injury Center.

Programs

The Division of Injury Science guides several programs and collaboratives that focus on comprehensive research, policy, and practice.
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Peace and Values Education in Violence Prevention
The CIC has partnered with the (KGM) and to adapt their Peace and Values Education curriculum for violence prevention efforts in the United States. The Peace and Values Education program is grounded in forgiveness as a path forward to find peace, through developing skills in critical thinking, empathy, and personal responsibility. Given the epidemic of community firearm violence in the United States and the CIC’s existing expertise of community violence intervention (CVI) work, the CIC team will work with KGM Peace Educators to develop a US-Specific Peace and Values Education to further facilitate violence prevention across the state and country.
Wound Ballistics Testing
Preliminary pilot work from the 91ɫƵ Global Firearm Research Collaborative has shown that applying state-of-the-art technology to wound ballistics testing provides a quantitative and visual assessment of how a bullet behaves when it is fired. Quantified information of the “damage” caused by firearms and bullets is instrumental in understanding the magnitude of their potential for injuries. It also aids in forming unbiased, evidence-based perspectives on implications for the clinical care of firearm-injured patients and policy for classifying and regulating bullets and firearms.
Disparities in Trauma Research Collaborative

The 91ɫƵ Disparities in Trauma Research Collaborative is anchored within 91ɫƵ’s Comprehensive Injury Center (CIC) and focuses on multidisciplinary research to address disparities within the continuum of care related to traumatic injury.

Through clinical practice and research at 91ɫƵ, we have observed that disparately poorer quality of life outcomes are experienced by injury survivors. Utilizing the , our researchers investigate biopsychosocial outcomes within the Social Ecological Model of Health to better understand how trauma affects people across the lifespan.

91ɫƵ Center for Health Disparities and Trauma Research: Framework for Addressing Trauma Across the Lifespan (PDF)

Contact the Division of Injury Science

Contact us to learn more about our work or to discuss collaboration opportunities.

Colleen Trevino, PhD, FNP, AGACNP

Director

ctrevino@mcw.edu