Center for Injury Prevention and Control

Mission

The GW Center for Injury Prevention and Control seeks to reduce death and disability from injury by promoting existing prevention methods, optimizing trauma care through education and collaboration with the community, and researching human behavior for insights that advance the field of injury prevention.

Announcements

Upcoming Meetings: 

Keep an eye out for future meeting times here. We meet every 6-8 weeks with representation from GW Emergency Medicine, the Center for Trauma and Critical Care Services, the gun violence injury group, and other stakeholders at GW Hospital, School of Medicine, and School of Public Health. 
 

Addressing post-road injury care in the Emergency Department

• Through another enthusiastic partnership DC DOT & the Highway Safety Office, we will be leading a research survey study and chart review addressing: 

  1. Care after road safety incidents involving pedestrians, drivers, scooter users, cyclists, and others. 
  2. Social determinants of health in patients affected by road safety incidents 

   

 Aggressive Driving in Washington, DC

• Through a partnership with DC DOT & the Highway Safety Office, our team of content creators from Howard University and GW have created original and thought-provoking content with the goals of:
  1. raising awareness of aggressive driving, and
  2. making aggressive driving socially unacceptable
• We have completed our content on both Instagram and TikTok:
  • Watch our content!!  See our TikTok profile here: https://www.tiktok.com/@gwinjuryprevention
  • Follow us @gwinjuryprevention
  • Like, share and comment on the videos
  • Get inspired, become a TikTok creator and post your own content 😄
• It takes a village to raise a TikTok public health campaign so please, please, please help us make this project as successful as possible, we appreciate it!