IPRCE Core Research Projects
Core Research Projects are comprehensive studies conducted by our core faculty that aim to drive the future reduction of injuries across Georgia, the southeast, and nationally. These projects address National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and IPRCE research priorities and align with IPRCE's cross-cutting themes of advancing health equity, supporting historically marginalized communities that are disproportionately affected by injury and violence, and promoting and applying implementation (translation) science in the development and delivery of interventions. Many of our core projects are led by Early-Stage Investigators, promoting the career development of emerging researchers.
This research project aims to assess the organizational readiness of trauma centers in Georgia, along with their law enforcement and community partners, to implement the Cardiff Model. This research project applies advanced geospatial methods to integrate multiple types of surveillance data acquired from diverse sectors to rapidly create stable estimates of opioid overdose counts and rates of prescription opioids alone, heroin alone, and co-use in Georgia's 159 counties, 108 of which are rural with populations less than 35,000. This study investigates whether disclosure of parent/caregiver ACEs to a young child’s primary care physician, accompanied by a structured conversation about the effects of these ACEs on parental and child heath can improve child health, build parental resilience, and support positive parenting behaviors. This project is designed to advance the field of suicide prevention for African American women by identifying risk and protective factors that influence the ACEs/suicide relationship, and by rigorously testing a culturally competent, multilevel suicide prevention intervention targeting African American adults who have previously attempted suicide. This project aims to catalyze cross-cutting violence prevention and intervention strategies for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people by strengthening community-based health and social service capacities to implement culturally sensitive and gender-affirming violence prevention involving screening and referral to services. This study aims to assess barriers and facilitators to implementation of a coordinated model for delivery of Naloxone and Fentanyl test strips that enhances collaboration between the primary sources for these—pharmacies, community-based harm reduction organizations, and the peer-support networks of people who use drugs. This study aims to use CBPAR methods to characterize risk and protective factors across levels of the social-ecological model for Black men with access to firearms who have and have not attempted suicide, then leverage these risk and protective factors to co-develop and pilot a culturally responsive intervention to prevent self-inflicted injury or death among multiply marginalized Black men with access to firearms. This project aims to develop coordinated hospital-community trauma-informed care (HCTIC) programs for violently injured Black youth that address both individual and socio-ecological factors contributing to youth violence.
Organizational Readiness of The Georgia Trauma System to Implement the Cardiff Model
Small Area Estimation for Opioid Abuse Prevention and Response
Addressing ACEs Among Hispanic Caregivers in a Pediatric Primary Care Population to Improve Child Health and Decrease Early Adversity
ACEs and Suicidal Behavior in African American Women: Assessment and Prevention
Screen and Intervene: Cross-Cutting Violence Prevention for Transgender and Gender Diverse People
Improving Access to Overdose Prevention via Pharmacy-Based Peer-Led Services in Atlanta, Georgia
A Community Based Participatory Research Approach for Addressing the Role of Firearms in Suicide Prevention among Black Males
Developing Coordinated Hospital-Community Trauma Informed Care to Prevent Youth Violence