233984 Journey to Injury Free: Examples of Injury Prevention Success

Monday, November 8, 2010 : 3:20 PM - 3:45 PM

Barbara Barlow, MD , Professor of Surgery in Epidemiology, Columbia University School of Public Health, New York, NY
  
Dr. Barlow founded the Harlem Hospital Center Injury Prevention Program in 1988, with a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program is designed to provide safer play areas and supervised programs for the area's children in order to reduce the high incidence of child injuries and accidents. Dr. Barlow will present examples from her experiences directing the Injury Free Coalition for Kids and the Harlem Hospital Program to highlight the importance of data in shaping program development and evaluation and demonstrate the value of coalitions in promoting and sustaining social change.

Learning Areas:
Other professions or practice related to public health

Learning Objectives:
1. Explain the importance of data in shaping program development and evaluation 2. Demonstrate the value of coalitions in promoting and sustaining social change

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Dr. Barbara Barlow is Director of the Injury Free Coalition for Kids. The Program and Dr. Barlow have received awards from the American Hospital Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Association, the National Safety Council, the American Trauma Society, the National Association of Public Hospitals, Society of Public Health Educators of the American Public Health Association, Johnson and Johnson Foundation, Allstate Foundation, the Hospital Association of New York, the American Association of Medical Colleges’ David E. Rogers Award, the Renaissance Woman Award from the Foundation for Women in Medicine, the Distinguished Career Award from the American Public Health Association Section on Injury Control and Emergency Health Services, and the Sloan Public Service Award from the Fund for the City of New York. Dr. Barlow’s research has focused on traumatic injury to children and on injury prevention for the past twenty-five years.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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