Seminars
Injury Cluster Seminars
Fall 2023
All of the seminars listed below will be held from 1:00 – 2:00 pm via live webinar and in-person at HLL 207 (9/18, 11/20 and 12/4) and HSC 303 10/16. To be placed on the seminar invitation list, please email Mr. Gerald Govia at: epidemiologyevents@cumc.columbia.edu
September 18, 2023 Validating National Violent Death Reporting System Variables through Data Linkage: A Case Study among Oregon Veterans
Kathleen F. Carlson, MS, PhD
Core Investigator, HSR&D, Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC) Director, HSR&D CIVIC Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
VA Portland Health Care System (R&D 66)
October 16, 2023
Rethinking the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Scale: A Developmental Approach to a Wider Array of Adversities and their Consequences during Childhood and Adolescence
Mackenzie J. (Kushner) Oliver, PhD
Data and Policy Specialist
Crime and Justice Institute
November 20, 2023
Sobriety Checkpoints and Alcohol-Impaired Driving
Christopher N. Morrison, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
December 4, 2023
Adolescents’ Decisions on Guns Across Three Homicide Epidemics: Getting Them, Carrying Them, Using Them (or Not)
Jeffrey A. Fagan
Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law
Columbia University School of Law
Past Injury Cluster Seminars - Spring 2023
January 23, 2023 Unintentional Injuries, Confronting the Burden (The Care of Road Traffic Injuries)
Ahmed Shelbaya, MD, MSc, MPH
Mailman School of Public Health Faculty CEO/Co-Founder The Nada Foundation for Safer Egyptian Roads
February 27, 2023
Health Data for New York City: A Potential Model for Injury Science and Prevention in NYC
David Siscovick, MD, MPH
Senior Research Scientist at NYAM
Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Washington
March 27, 2023
Public Health Approaches in Homeless Services: A Case Study in Overdose Prevention
Fabienne Laraque, MD, MPH
Medical Director
Department of Homeless Services/DSS, New York
April 24, 2023
Law Enforcement-Involved Injuries and Fatal Encounters (LEIFE)
Michael J. Bauer, MS
Director, Bureau of Occupational Health and Injury Prevention
New York State Department of Health
Past Injury Cluster Seminars - Fall 2022
September 19, 2022
The Role of Domestic Violence in Fatal Mass Shootings
Lisa Geller, MPH
State Affairs Manager Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, Baltimore, MD
October 17, 2022
Integrating Systems Thinking Tools into Road Safety Research and Practice
Becky Naumann, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Core Faculty, Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
November 14, 2022
Equity or Equality: Toward a Model of Community-Responsive Education
Jeff Duncan-Andrade, PhD
Professor, Latina/o Studies & Race Resistance Studies
San Francisco State University
December 5, 2022
Public health perspectives on firearm-related injury surveillance: Examples from New York City
Catherine Stayton, DrPH, MPH
Director, Injury and Violence Prevention Program
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Past Injury Cluster Seminars - Spring 2022
January 24, 2022
Safe by Design: Estimating Proactive Urban Transportation Safety Methods based on Traveler Biometrics
Megan S. Ryerson, PhD
UPS Chair of Transportation Associate Dean for Research, Weitzman School of Design
Associate Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning and Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
February 14, 2022
Introduction to WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System
Dionne D. Williams, MPS
Data Analytics Branch (DAB), Division of Injury Prevention (DIP)
CDC / DDNID / NCIPC
March 21, 2022
The Contribution of Structural Violence to Injuries Among People Who Inject Drugs
Ricky N. Bluthenthal, PhD, Associate Dean for Social Justice and Professor
Department of Preventive Medicine, Institute for Prevention Research
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
April 25, 2022
Building 988: An Opportunity to Build Inclusive Crisis Care Structures – Effectiveness of the Lifeline
Madelyn S. Gould, PhD, MPH, Irving Philips Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry
Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Past Injury Cluster Seminars - Fall 2021
September 27, 2021
The Abuse Potential of Oxymorphone: Lessons learned from two clinical laboratory studies
Jermaine Jones, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry)
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
October 25, 2021
County-level social environmental determinants of U.S. suicide incidence
Gonzalo Martinez-Ales, MD, MSc, PhD, Researcher
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid School of Medicine, Madrid
November 22, 2021
The impacts of deregulating civilian gun carrying on violent crime
Cassandra Crifasi, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management
Deputy Director, Center for Gun Violence Prevention and Policy
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
December 6, 2021
Intimate Partner Violence and Forcibly Displaced Populations: Drivers and Intervention Strategies
Jhumka Gupta, ScD, MPH, Associate Professor
Department of Global and Community Health, College of Health and Human Services, George Mason University
Past Science + Policy Injury Works-in-Progress Seminars - Spring 2022
February 8, 2022 - via Zoom only
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Young Adults’ Depressive & Anxious Symptoms
Noah Kreski, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
March 29, 2022 - HS LL106
Social Disruption, Gun Buying, and Anti-System Beliefs
Matt Lacombe, PhD, Barnard College, Columbia University
April 12, 2022 - HS LL10
Title: Creating reproducible violence data: automation of data cleaning and standardization of a longitudinal violence study in four low-and middle-income countries
Ilan Cerna-Turoff, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
May 10, 2022 - via Zoom only
Title: Strategic Treatment Assessment with Youth (STAY): A measurement-based care approach to promote treatment retention among racial and ethnic minoritized youth with depression or suicidal risk
Prerna Arora, PhD, Teachers College, Columbia University
Past Science + Policy Injury Works-in-Progress Seminars - Fall 2021
September 21, 2021
Diversity, Peer Effects, and Police Officer Behavior
Gerard Torrats-Espinosa, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
October 12, 2021
Long-term Retention in Buprenorphine Treatment
Robin Williams, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
November 9, 2021
The association between gun-free zones, gun crimes, and active shootings
Paul Reeping, PhD Student, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
December 14, 2021
Implications of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on Adolescents with ASD and School-Based Interventions
Zahra Ladhani, EdD Student, Teachers College, Columbia University