Training and Education
Several training and educational activities occur in CCISP and collaboratively across the university and beyond that augment and
further advance the goals of the training and education core which are to:
Build a new generation of injury scientists and practitioners in one of the world’s leading training programs that prominently includes trainees at many levels from citizen scientists and policymakers to local community college students, graduate students, clinical trainees, and postdoctoral fellows—and especially individuals from backgrounds that have been historically underrepresented in the field of injury prevention.
Co-Directors: Drs. Thelma Mielenz, PhD and Danielle Laraque-Arena, MD
Youth Led Non Violence Summit, 10/10/24
Dr. Danielle Laraque-Arena, Co-Director of the Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention in partnership with the Heritage School of East Harlem and the New York Academy of Health has worked to develop a Youth Advisory Committee (YAC). The Youth Led Non Violence Summit took place on October 10th. The Summit hosted 60 students and 40 clinicians, educators, injury and violence professionals and others were engaged in two panels, a round table discussion, and a long table discussion to develop a participatory action plan on issues affecting youth health, well-being, gun violence and community safety. Workshops on research, development, and preparing youth for science-based promotion are planned.
Master of Public Health Students
MPH Certificate in Injury and Violence
The MPH Certificate in Injury and Violence Prevention is open to MPH students in all six MSPH departments. It provides advanced training in key IVP theoretical approaches, determinants, and injury methods and develops critical thinking and analytic skills. Students complete required certificate courses while being afforded flexibility to pursue electives that satisfy their specific analytical/methodological, programmatic and/or research focused interests. In addition, students in methodology certificates such as Health Policy and Practice, Advanced Epidemiology, Applied Biostatistics and Comparative Effectiveness Outcomes Research often take IVP courses, complete IVP practica and IVP theses. Dr. Joyce Pressley serves as the IVP Certificate Faculty Lead.
MPH Student Practica and Theses
CCISP scientists work with MPH students to develop practicum opportunities and thesis/capstone projects that address unintentional or intentional injury topics. The practicum is a minimum of 8 weeks and can be completed in a university, a NGO, a community partner, a city, state or federal agency or other relevant site. The thesis/capstone is a mentored research or programmatic project depending on the student's home department. Opportunities are available in road safety, opioid overdose, suicide, ACEs, violence, equity, disparities and other topics relevant to injury and violence.
Doctoral Students and Dissertations
Students interested in injury and violence prevention elect to either pursue PhD or DrPH degrees, and most students are fully or nearly fully funded in terms of tuition and stipends from a variety of sources at the School, extramural grants, industry, and private foundations.
Injury Research Postdoctoral Fellows
Along with direct resources from CCISP, postdoctoral fellows interested in our injury postdoctoral program and existing, but related postdoctoral programs will have the opportunity to maximize the use of shared resources, thus creating new scientific synergies, programmatic efficiencies, and ultimately greater numbers of postdoctoral fellows affiliated with CCISP who are interested in becoming independent injury scientists and launching their own injury and violence research lines of inquiry.
Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Students
Community Education Core Resource (CERC)
The CERC is within Columbia’s Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and fosters research and training conducted in partnership with community stakeholders to better inform the application of scientific findings to clinical and community settings. The CERC supports community-engaged research between CCISP researchers, multi-sector stakeholders, and the community at-large.
Injury Science Laboratory
The Injury Science Laboratory is located in dedicated space provided for the Center by the Department of Epidemiology in Room 516 of the Mailman School of Public Health. It is available for faculty and students throughout Columbia working on injury prevention.
Core faculty and a dedicated graduate research assistant facilitate the use of available national, state, and local data for student theses, dissertations, and course projects. Databases are available in-house with appropriate permissions for injury research.
Educational Resources
Injury Awards
The CCISP has established two annual awards:
the Susan P. Baker Award in Injury Epidemiology is given to a graduating master’s student for outstanding performance in thesis research in the area of injury epidemiology and prevention.
the William Haddon Jr. Award in Injury Epidemiology is given to a graduating doctoral student for outstanding contributions to injury epidemiology and prevention through dissertation research.
Episummer@Columbia
Intensive short courses are offered either in-person at the Mailman School of Public Health or in online distance- learning formats. The episummer@columbia Injury Course is held in conjunction with the ICRC annual conference each May or June.
Other Activities
Cohort 1: Andrea de los Angeles Vasquez Guillen, her sister Maria Jesus Vasquez Guillen, and Hawa Abraham
Cohort 2: Renata Tedaldi
Cohort 2: Ansumana Jammeh
Next Gen Public Health Scholars Program
The NextGen Public Health Scholars Program is a unique partnership of public and private institutions of higher education that enthusiastically welcomes and prepares the next generation of college students from diverse backgrounds to enter much needed careers in public health and epidemiology.