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Adia Louden is a fourth-year doctoral student at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. We reached out to Louden to learn more about her work, her life, and her academic journey through the following Q & A. How did you get into injury and violence prevention work? My journey into violence prevention began with a passion for ...

Injury-Free NC, a collaboration between the North Carolina Division of Public Health’s Injury and Violence Prevention Branch and the University of North Carolina’s Injury Prevention Research Center, is excited to launch the application for the 2025 Injury-Free NC Academy on Harm Reduction as Transformative Practice. The purpose of this Academy is to work with community-based ...

By UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Expanding Medicaid coverage could lead to fewer deaths among those who were formerly incarcerated, but new findings from a JAMA Network Open study show significant racialized inequities in this reduction. The study, led by researchers at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, compared mortality data from formerly ...

Attorney General Josh Stein Unveils Updates to Community Opioid Resources Engine (CORE-NC) Friday, October 25, 2024 RALEIGH – Attorney General Josh Stein announced today that North Carolinians now have expanded access to their local governments’ spending of the $1.2 billion in opioid settlement funds aimed at addressing the opioid crisis. An updated feature on the Community Opioid Resources Engine ...

By UNC School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine The research shows firearm injuries in N.C. are pervasive and increasing, but preventable. The findings were released earlier this year and demonstrate that firearm violence occurs in rural, suburban and urban areas across North Carolina. These data were compiled to be used as a tool for policymakers, local ...

Brian Mann, National Public Radio For the first time in decades, public health data shows a sudden and hopeful drop in drug overdose deaths across the U.S. “This is exciting,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute On Drug Abuse , the federal laboratory charged with studying addiction. “This looks real. This looks very, very ...

A message from Penny Gordon-Larsen, Vice Chancellor for Research Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that Kathryn E. (Beth) Moracco has been named director of the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center (IPRC), effective September 1, 2024. Moracco brings over 15 years of experience in higher education leadership to her role and is widely recognized as an ...

The UNC Injury Prevention Research Center and the Safe States Alliance are calling for proposals to facilitate the adaption and implementation of North Carolina’s Injury-Free Academy on Using a Shared Risk and Protective Factors (SRPF) Approach to Prevent Violence. The goal of this project is to pilot the SRPF Academy outside of North Carolina and ...