CE24-001, Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention (CCISP)

Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention – Project Summary The Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention (CCISP) will build upon its many past successes as a previously funded CDC Injury Control Research Center (ICRC) and will also, at the same time, thoughtfully progress into important new directions in seeking to usher in a new era of injury science with an explicit focus on reducing health inequities. The proposed Center will meet these objectives through synergistic efforts that actively strengthen our existing infrastructure; bring together scientific expertise, policy, and practice; produce an inclusive and diverse injury prevention workforce; foster interdisciplinary collaborations and far-reaching partnerships across our university, city, region, and other ICRCs in newly advancing the field of injury prevention with a focus on equity and social justice; and ultimately reduce morbidity and mortality from injuries through the creation, dissemination, and translation of scientific knowledge, the development of innovative and multi-level training programs, and the promotion of equitable best practices and evidence-based interventions. The CCISP will integrate and sustain its primary activities — leadership, research, training and education, and outreach — ensuring the “whole is greater than the sum of its parts” and maximizing the impact far beyond what would be achieved in conducting each of these activities separately in isolation. The mission and overall objective of the CCISP will be “Accelerating Equity through the Science of Safety”, leveraging the unique value of scientific inquiry in assembling a large group of university, community, and government partners to fast-track injury prevention research and programs with the greatest potential to equitably impact the safety and health of marginalized communities. This objective will be met by: 1) further developing infrastructure that brings together scientific expertise, policy, and practice through a lens of equity; 2) creating diverse, interdisciplinary collaborations and far-reaching partnerships across our university, city, region, state and other national ICRCs in newly advancing the injury prevention field; and 3) reducing injuries level through the creation, translation, and dissemination of scientific knowledge, training and education programs, and best practices and evidence-based solutions. The CCISP will bring together a team of highly experienced individuals with a long history of leadership of, engagement in, and connection to a multitude of injury prevention societies and stakeholders locally, nationally, and globally. The Center will be led by a robust Administrative Core, as well as an Outreach Core and a Training and Education Core, and will include four Centerpiece Research Projects. These projects will focus on injury prevention topics that are a priority for the CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and its Director, injury prevention issues of health equity and social justice, and translation to marginalized communities most in need, and will prominently include early-stage investigators.