“Accelerating the Science of Safety”
2025 Annual American Public Health Association (APHA) Injury Control and Emergency Health Services (ICEHS) Section Awards recipients
·The 2025 Distinguished Career Award is awarded to Guohua Li, MD, DrPH, in recognition of a distinguished career and dedicated leadership in the science of injury control and emergency health services, with contributions and achievements that have a significant and long-term impact on the field of injury and violence prevention.
The 2025 Excellence in Science Award is awarded to Joyce C. Pressley, PhD, MPH. The award recognizes an ICEHS member who demonstrates outstanding dedication and leadership in the science of injury control and emergency health services, with contributions and achievements that have a significant and long-term impact on the field of injury and violence prevention.
2026 State States Alliance Injury and Violence Prevention Achievement Award
DiLenny Roca Dominguez, MPH, MS, CPST is the 2026 recipient of the Safe States Alliance Injury and Violence Prevention Achievement Award.
This award recognizes an individual for their outstanding programmatic work, advocacy, or research to advance the field of injury and violence prevention.
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2026 Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) Excellence in Violence and Injury Research Award
Charles Branas, PhD Co Director of the Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention is the recipeint of the 2026 SAVIR Excellence in Violence and Injury Prevention Science Award recognizing how his leadership, research, and service have led to important advancements in violence and injury prevention science.
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2024 Jesse Kraus Award for Best Paper published in the Journal of Injury Epidemiology
Rohit P. Shenoi, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Attending Physician, Emergency Center, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX
Using Syndromic Surveillance for Unintentional and Undetermined Intent Drowning Surveillance in a Large Metropolitan Area
Other Awards & Recognitions — Congratulations!
Vision Zero Research Award
Dr. Christopher Morrison accepted the Vision Zero Research Award on behalf of the research team for the study titled, "Physical environmental roadway interventions and injury and death for vulnerable road users: a natural experiment in New York City." Researchers Leah E. Roberts, Brady Bushover, Christina A. Mehranbod, Ariana N. Gobaud, Carolyn Fish, Evan L. Eschliman, Xiang Gao, Siddhesh Zadey, and Christopher N. Morrison authored the winning submission.
This study evaluated the effectiveness of three physical roadway interventions—enhanced crossings, speed humps, and turn traffic calming—in reducing crashes that result in pedestrian and cyclist injuries or fatalities in New York City. The findings suggest that turn traffic calming can significantly lower crash risks for pedestrians.
Jaqueline Wallace, MD
It is with great pleasure that we congratulate the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai medical student Jacqueline Wallace who will graduate with Distinction in Research (DIR). This recognition is given to the student who has taken primary responsibility for an original research study and whose work resulted in a peer-reviewed journal. Thank you to Dr. Danielle Laraque Arena and other CCISP affiliated faculty for their mentorship. Dr. Wallace published work on youth participatory research can be found HERE
Siddhesh Zadey, Pre-Doctoral Candidate
Sid a doctoral student in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and member of the CCISP was awarded the 2024-2025 Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)/Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Student Fellowship in Injury Prevention.
The fellowship recognizes, assists and trains students working on research or practice-based projects in unintentional injury prevention from the perspective of health education or the behavioral sciences.
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