Links and Websites

These links and websites offer a bird’s eye view of the kind of material available to researchers with an interest in disaster or injury epidemiology.  It is by no means comprehensive or definitive but is, rather, an idiosyncratic and highly subjective tour of the injury and disaster web. There is an additional set of links to statistical software pages in the Resources section. If you would like to suggest a site, by all means please do. A contact link may be found on the home page.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Protection Research Initiative Mentored Research Scientist Awards is the program that helped fund much of the effort that went into conducting the research and creating the material presented on this web site.  From there, you can reach the CDC’s Office of Public Health Research where you can review the agencies research priorities and how they are translating those priorities into programs.

The site for the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology provides links to faculty profiles, notes on current research, and schedules of upcoming seminars.  Follow the “Academics” link to find out about degree programs.

The Columbia University National Center for Disaster Preparedness, currently housed at the Mailman School of Public Health, provides many resources.  Follow the "Program" link to access the well-regarded Resiliency Program, which provided direct mental health services in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the Center for Public Health Preparedness, one of the first in the nation.

At CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control you can (among other things) search or download injury-related data through WISQARS, create injury maps, access clinical information and tools on responding to mass casualties, and investigate funding opportunities.

The Injury Free Coalition for Kids is a National Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  Housed in the department of epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the program has been fostering and implementing grass-roots community based injury prevention interventions since the first program was developed at Harlem Hospital in New York City in 1984. 

The Disaster Research Education and Mentoring Center exists to provide practial and technical assistance to academic, governmental and non-governmental investigators interested in conducting high quality research after disasters and terrorist attacks. Here you will find links to resources such as sample grant applications, educational materials, publications and presentations.

Epiville is a learning tool developed specifically for the introductory course in epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.  It consists of a set of interactive web-based lessons and exercises that lead you through the concepts and tools that make up epidemiology by immersing you in a series of epidemic investigations in the fictional city of Epiville.

The Injury Control Research Information Network provides an extensive and dynamic list of resources specifically aimed at injury control researchers.  From here you can access material like ICD-9 data standard from the National Center for Health Statistics, grant opportunities, tools, discussion boards and much more. Well worth a visit.

The Free Medical Journals site, as its name indicates, provides full, free full-text online access to articles to those without the luxury of institutional subscriptions.

The folks at Safety Lit comb through 2,600 journals from 35 professional disciplines every week to post an update of recent research about injury prevention and control.  They will also provide you with email updates.

The National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder of the United States Department of Veteran’s Affairs provides such resources as psychological first aid manuals for clinicians in post-disaster environments.  Of particular interest to researchers is their PILOTS data base.  A fully searchable compendium of the world-wide literature on traumatic stress.