New Resources Added to the SAVIR Teaching Hub

SAVIR’s Teaching Hub continues to grow with new resources to help educators bring injury and violence prevention into public health education. Recent additions include a sample syllabus for an undergraduate course in injury and violence prevention, ready-to-adapt assignments for classroom and group discussions, and a new article highlighting the need for greater attention to injury and violence prevention in public health curricula.

New Publication: Injury and Violence Prevention in Public Health Education

The article “Injury and violence: undertaught and overdue in public health education”, published in Injury Prevention by Caitlyn Schreiner, Carolyn DiGuiseppi, Christen Rexing, and Ashley Brooks-Russell, underscores the importance of strengthening injury and violence prevention education within public health programs.

Sample Syllabus and Classroom Assignments

SAVIR and partners Carolyn DiGuiseppi, Ashley Brooks-Russell, Sara Shuman, and Christen Rexing have developed an editable sample syllabus for an undergraduate Introduction to Injury and Violence Prevention course. Educators can adapt the syllabus to fit their courses and teaching goals.

Additional resources include:

• Class Discussion Group Facilitation Worksheet to help students lead and facilitate discussions.
• Homework Details for Instructors, along with an assigned research article on the relationship between family history of mandatory boarding school experiences and suicide risk among reservation-based Native American youth, and separate undergraduate and graduate homework assignments.
• Reading Group Discussion Questions Assignment to support critical engagement with research.

Explore these resources and more on the SAVIR Teaching Hub. Have a resource, syllabus or assignment to share, to help others teach about injury and violence prevention? Email a link to info@thesavir.org for consideration.

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