2025 Catherine Barber Research Award

APHA, in partnership with the Joyce Foundation, is pleased to announce the 2025 Catherine Barber Research Award. This research award is intended to support emerging researchers and investigators, to foster the development of the violence and suicide prevention workforce and to promote innovative, impactful analysis of CDC’s National Violent Death Reporting System data.

Application deadline: June 12, 11:59 p.m. ET

About Catherine Barber

Catherine Barber, MPA, is a senior researcher at Harvard’s Injury Research Center in the Chan School of Public Health. Among her many achievements, she has made significant contributions to surveillance and prevention efforts related to suicide and violence injury and mortality. In particular, she has long been a champion of NVDRS – an initiative funded by CDC to compile data from death certificates, coroner/medical examiner reports, and law enforcement reports to provide nuanced information about violent deaths and suicide and the circumstances surrounding them, with the goal of informing prevention efforts.

Questions: mighty.fine@apha.org

Special thanks to The Joyce Foundation for funding this award.