2023 Annual Symposium
Accelerating Equity through the Science of Safety

Symposium Organizer/Moderator

Joyce Pressley, Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention (CCISP)

Welcome - 10:00 am

Charles Branas, Director of the Center for Injury Science and Prevention (CCISP)

Emerging Issues in Firearm Violence - 10:10 am

Urban vs. rural differences in firearm death (Paul Reeping)
Intentionality of ICD-10-CM firearm injury coding in hospital data (Michael Bauer)
Assessing the gun violence archive as an epidemiologic data source for community firearm violence in NYC (Ariana Gobaud)

The NY State Temporary Commission To Prevent Childhood Drowning (Marrick McDonald) - 11:00 am

Successful Efforts to Advance Equity in Black/Brown Communities and Vulnerable Populations (Mike Switalski)

Injury Disparities in Black and Brown Communities: The Collaborative Equity Intern Project with CCISP, NCIPN and Safe States (Shelli Stephens-Stidham/Joyce Pressley) - 11:45 am

Break

Keynote Panel: American Indian/Alaska Native Injury Prevention Initiatives - 12:30 pm

Molly Madson, REHS, MPH, Indian Health Service
Jason Hymer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Sheldwin Yazzie, AASTEC (Tribal Epidemiology Center)/AAIHB (Indian Health Board)
Jerrod K. Moore, Tribal Injury Prevention Resource Center

Updates from Partners - 2:00 pm

New York State Department of Health (Michael Bauer)
Youth Advisory Councils (Danielle Laraque-Arena)
SURGE and the Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms (Sonali Rajan)
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (Catherine Stayton)
National Injury Prevention Day 2023 (Lenita Johnson)

Roundtables - 2:30 pm

Injury Prevention Initiatives in American Indians/Native Populations (Jerrod Moore/Molly Madson)
Moving the field of firearm violence prevention forward (Sonali Rajan/Charles Branas)
National Injury Prevention Day 2023 (Lenita Johnson)
Youth Advisory Councils (Danielle Laraque-Arena/ Olivia Isenberg-Landes)
Drowning Prevention (Laura-Mae Baldwin/Reggie Chatman)
Older Adult Falls Prevention (Christina Akey/Kristi Ladowski/Ayden Jones)

Sponsored by: Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention (CCISP), Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health and the University Seminar Series in Injury Prevention and Control