Violence - School Associated Violent Deaths

Doctoral Dissertation Awards and New Investigator Awards

Overview

The Doctoral Dissertation grant program was created to stimulate and encourage doctoral candidates to conduct violence-related injury prevention research while assisting with the completion of their dissertation research. The New Investigator grant program was created specifically for early career or mid-career researchers new to the field of injury research. The goal of the programs is to assist these grantees in becoming productive and competitive injury researchers. Listed below are the grantees and links to abstracts about their research projects.

New Investigator Training and Doctoral Dissertations

2008

2007

Sarah Lindstrom
Johns Hopkins University
Modifying the School Environment to Reduce Violence: Suggestions from Students

Susan Ghanbarpour
Johns Hopkins University
Understanding Factors that Influence Safety Behaviors Practices by IPV Victims

Lyndsay N. Boggess
The Regents of the University of California
Neighborhood Change and Crime: Assessing the Relationship between the Local Housing Market, Racial and Ethnic Transition, and Youth Violence

Angela Boy, M.P.H.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Intimate Partner Violence in Hispanic Women in Alabama

Michele R. Decker, M.P.H.
The President and Fellows of Harvard College
Urban African American and Hispanic Men's Perpetration of Multiple Forms of Violence

Melissa Dichter, B.A.
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Impact of Intimate Assault Arrest on Battered Women's Safety and Service Needs

Doctoral Dissertation Grantees

2006	2004
Yragui, Nanette Oregon Health & Science University Disparities at work: Intimate Violence Survivors and Work-related Outcomes Chauhan, Preeti University of Virginia Female Juvenile Offenders: Differentiating Mechanisms of Violence Risk by Race Fung, Michelle T. University of Southern California Understanding Psychopathy in a Multi-Ethnic Sample of Male and Female Adolescents	Brittany Coats, BSE University of Pennsylvania Mechanics of Head Impact in Infants Robert Winchell Faris, MA School of Public Health Race, Social Networks, and Bullying Matthew Irvin, MA Center for Developmental Science Risk for Violence and Injury in Rural African-American Youth Kathryn S. Laughon, RN, MSN The Johns Hopkins University Violence, Mental Health, Substance Use: Testing a Model Michael R. McCart, MS University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Reducing Violence/Victimization in Assaulted Urban Youth
2005	2003
Christine Durrett, BA, MA Dept. of Psychological Sciences A Twin Study of Suicidality & Self-Harm Among White and African American Women Tia Kim, MA University of California Relation of Identity and Aggression Among Latino Adolescents Qing Li, MM, MD, Dept. of Maternal and Child Health Intimate Partner Violence Among Low-Income Pregnant Women: Multilevel Analysis Julie Rajaratnam, BA Johns Hopkins University The Environment of Middle Childhood and Adolescent Violence in Baltimore Cohort	Michael R. McCart University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Reducing Violence/Victimization in Assaulted Urban Youth Kathryn S. Laughon Johns Hopkins-School of Nursing Violence, Mental Health, Substance Use: Testing a Model

New Investigator Grantees

2005	2004 continued
Amy Bonomi, MPH, PhD Group Health Cooperative Individual and Neighborhood Factors Associated with Intimate Partner Violence Risk Dawn Comstock, PhD Center for Injury Research and Policy High School Sports Injury Surveillance - Collecting Incidence and Exposure Data Julie Crouch, BA, MA, PhD Northern Illinois University When Baby Cries: The Role of Hostility-Related Schema in Physical Abuse Risk William Fernandez, MD, MPH Department of Emergency Medicine Brief Intervention to Increase Safety Belt Use Among Emergency Department Patients Joel Stitzel, BS, MS, PhD Wake Forest University Health Sciences Control and Quantitation of Pulmonary Contusion Lisa Van Bramer, BA, MD University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Evaluating New Tools to Link Pre-hospital and Hospital Injury Surveillance Data Anita Vasavada, BS, MS, PhD School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering Gender-Specific Neck Musculoskeletal Models for Analyzing Whiplash Injury	Karen Ann McDonnell, PhD The George Washington University Concept Mapping: An Innovative Method to Measure Supervision Kieran J. Phelan, MD Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Childhood Residential Injury and Caregiver Supervision Charles W. Pruitt, MD Eastern Virginia Medical School Oceanfront Injury Prevention Alyssa Ann Rheingold, PhD Medical University of South Carolina Primary Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse Stanley Sciortino, PhD San Francisco Department of Public Health Safe Streets: GIS Analysis and Countermeasure Evaluation Kelli England Will, PhD Eastern Virginia Medical School Boost 'em in the Back Seat: A Safe Ride Program Huiyun Xiang MD, MPH, PhD Children’s Research Institute Injury Diagnosis Code Accuracy in Medicaid Claims Data Jiangyue Zhang, PhD Medical College of Wisconsin Patient-specific Modeling for Pediatric Head Injury Biomechanics
2004	2003
Nancy Glass PhD, MPH, MSN Oregon Health & Science University Assessing Risk of Repeat Violence in Abusive Female Same-Sex Intimate Relationships Joshua B. Kay, PhD The Regents of the University of Michigan Pediatric Mild Head Injury: Definition and Consequences Wendy Lane, MD, MPH University of Maryland School of Medicine Evaluation of a Program to Prevent Abusive Head Trauma Dominique Lord, PhD Texas A&M Research Foundation Reducing Older Driver Injuries at Intersections Lorin Maletsky, PhD University of Kansas Research Center Mechanical Simulation to Evaluate Injury Mechanisms of Ligaments in the Knee	Dominique Lord, PhD Texas A&M Research Foundation Reducing Older Driver Injuries at Intersections Kieran J. Phelan, MD Children’s Hospital Medical Center Childhood Residential Injury and Caregivers Supervision Charles W. Pruitt, MD Eastern Virginia Medical School Oceanfront Injury Prevention Alyssa Ann Rheingold, PhD Medical University of South Carolina Primary Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse Stanley Sciortino, PhD San Francisco Department of Public Health Safe Streets: GIS Analysis and Countermeasure Evaluation Jiangyue Zhang, PhD Medical College of Wisconsin Patient-Specific Modeling for Pediatric Head Injury-Biomechanics

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