UNC-Chapel Hill researchers have received a $400,000 award to partner with the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to study changing the culture of concussion disclosure among military personnel and college athletes. They will develop an online interactive platform that provides a series of immersive training vignettes for those populations.
Eight winners of the inaugural Mind Matters Challenge, sponsored by the NCAA and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), were announced Feb. 5. The two entities joined forces more than a year ago with a goal of securing funding for compelling research that encourages a culture in which every head injury is reported and managed properly, rather than being concealed from peers, coaches, medical personnel, unit leaders or others.
Johna Register-Mihalik, assistant professor of exercise and sport science in the College of Arts and Sciences and a faculty member of the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center, is a co-principal investigator on the project. Stephen Marshall, professor in the department of epidemiology in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and director of the Injury Prevention Research Center, is the other UNC co-PI.
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