The IPRC’s research is focused on five areas: gender-based violence, opioid disorder and overdose, child abuse and neglect, traumatic brain injuries, and road traffic injuries. These focus areas reflect pressing national injury and violence prevention (IVP) priorities and are closely aligned with the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control research priorities, including efforts to improve equitable outcomes.
Our teams have extensive research and practice expertise in these research focus areas, as well as expertise in a wide range of other IVP areas. Recent IPRC studies addressed innovative approaches to falls prevention; changing attitudes and norms around concussion prevention; community- and policy-based interventions to prevent opioid overdose; crash risk and youth driver licensing in minorities; child abuse and neglect in Alaskan populations; campus sexual violence prevention policies; and trends in fatal occupational injuries among workers in North Carolina.
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UNC IPRC collaborates with community leaders and practitioners to inform our research and facilitate translation of research into evidence-based practice. We do this through meetings, workshops, and training with policy makers, practitioners, and community members who have experienced injury and violence first-hand.
UNC IPRC is committed to fostering interdisciplinary research, allowing us to rapidly respond to emerging IVP issues.
Our research teams advance the science of effective and evidence-based prevention, using innovative and participatory research methods to protect vulnerable populations that experience a high burden of injury and violence.
