Addressing urgent injury prevention issues with research, education, and outreach

Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations A crowd-sourced project on the science of science and the exceedingly rare circumstances that sustain legacy research from a mentor to mentee and to theirs In fifty years since firearm research began, the decades have witnessed several pioneering investigators who published the first groundbreaking studies. This was followed by ... Read more

Chris joined the Injury Prevention Center in 2024. In his role, Chris helps to manage and implement sports related concussion and head injury prevention research. He obtained a Masters of Global Health from the University of Notre Dame in 2017. Chris has experience working with citizen science, community-based participatory research, and data management/coordination.

Dr. Jason Goldstick This project will use the System for Overdose Surveillance, created by the U-M Injury Prevention Center, to conduct a rigorous comparison of several powerful spatiotemporal prediction methods to determine which methods best predict future overdose hotspots within a city and disseminate this information to key community stakeholders. Our overall goal is to ... Read more

Dr. Abigail Bretzin The project will develop an injury surveillance system that prospectively monitors SRCs in the high school setting to record details regarding the incident injury and utilization of concussion management resources, and aid recovery by facilitating oversight from Athletic Trainers. The major goals of the project focus on leveraging an existing injury surveillance program ... Read more

Dr. Mark Ilgen Preventing suicide among members of the US armed forces, including the National Guard (NG), is of high public health significance. Crisis lines, including the Military and Veterans Crisis Line (MVCL), are widely available resources designed to provide easily accessible support to individuals during high-risk periods to prevent suicidal behaviors. Novel translational strategies ... Read more

Dr. Kip Bohnert Dr. Jason Goldstick Suicide is a significant and growing public health concern, and a leading cause of death in the United States (U.S.). Suicide ranks in the top ten leading causes of death for those ages 10-64, and accounted for almost 45,000 deaths in 2016 in the U.S. In addition to the ... Read more

Dr. Donovan Maust BZD prescribing to older adults continues despite decades of evidence demonstrating the risk for significant injury from both falls and OD. In the face of continued use, specific recommendations for prescribing have the potential to have greater uptake into clinical practice, but a lack of scientific evidence prevents this approach at this ... Read more

Dr. Allison Lin Opioid overdose mortality continues to rise, but major shifts have occurred in the relative proportion of deaths attributed to specific opioids and other substances.  To examine risk factors and impacts of opioid reduction on opioid overdose, we will analyze 2012-2016 VHA data. Outcomes are unintentional opioid overdose deaths categorized by opioids involved: ... Read more

Dr. Abigail Bretzin Dr. Matthew Lorincz Dr. Andrea Almeida This study aims to fill the gap in knowledge concerning the rate of return to sport without reoccurrence of concussion symptoms after completing supervised exercise which includes a near maximum predicted heart rate and incorporates sport specific agility activity during testing. The aim of the study ... Read more