Courses

Please note: The Center for Injury Research and Policy's Summer Institute will not be offered in 2024. Please check back in 2025 for the courses that will be offered.

Explore examples of our Summer Institute course offerings.

Principles and Practice of Injury Prevention (305.670.79) will meet twice each week, virtually, for a total of 6 sessions. Specific dates and times for the virtual class sessions will be announced here. The class will also include 3 hours of recorded sessions per week, for a total of 9 recorded hours and 24 hours of total sessions. The class will be a mix of synchronous online with some asynchronous online activities. The institute instructor is Shannon Frattaroli, PhD, a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management.

This competency-based course uses a problem-solving paradigm to introduce the principles and practice of injury prevention. Students use class lectures in behavioral, biomechanical, environmental, epidemiological, legislative, policy and community partnership approaches to injury prevention to develop a strategy for addressing a specific injury problem. Students work in groups for practical application sessions to develop skills learned in the lectures. At the conclusion of the course, the groups present their strategies for addressing the injury problem they have been assigned and receive feedback from their peers and the instructors.

Advanced Seminar in Injury Prevention (305.865.79) will meet twice each week for a total of 8 sessions. The class has a total of 16 hours of sessions. The class will meet synchronously online.  The upcoming institute topic, instructor, and dates and times of the virtual class sessions will be announced here. 

The Injury Summer Institute broadens, advances, and challenges existing skills and knowledge of injury prevention students and/or multi-disciplined injury prevention practitioners. It applies the National Core Competencies for Injury and Violence Prevention to the selected Injury or Violence topic for the term. In addition to the interactive synchronous context, students engage with recorded content and apply public health principles to their own communities to promote skill building and experiential learning.