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SAVIR has announced the winners of its 2025 awards. Congratulations to all recipients and finalists for these awards.

Best Science Oral Presentation Award
Winner: Jeffrey Ebert, University of Pennsylvania, “Impact of Usage-Based Insurance Feedback and Incentives on Driver Safety: A National Randomized Controlled Trial”
Finalists: Theresa Cruz, University of New Mexico, “Measuring Child Maltreatment Prevalence in New Mexico to Inform Prevention Efforts” and Lolita Moss, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, “Factors that Predict IPV Perpetration among a Cross-sectional Sample of Black LGBTQ Youth”

Student/Early Career Best Science Oral Presentation Award
Winner: Julie Ward, Vanderbilt University, “Characteristics of Behavioral and Mental Health Involved Injurious Shootings by Police in the United States”
Finalists: Mudia Uzzi, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, “A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Structural Racism, Firearm Homicide, and Fatal Opioid -Involved Overdose: An Injury-Related Syndemic” and Priyanka Joshi, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, “Neighborhood Factors Influence Primary Care Follow-Up for Adolescents with Depression or Suicidality after ED Visits”

Student/Early Career Best Science Poster Award
Winner: Kechna Cadet, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, “Intersectional Racial and Sex Disparities in Unintentional Overdose Mortality”
Finalists: Rebecca Valek, Oregon Health & Science University Gun Violence Prevention Research Center, “Addressing Cognitive Decline and Dementia among Firearm Owners through Oregon’s Extreme Risk Protection Order Law” and Ella Mucciolo, University of Iowa, “Enhancing Teen Driver Hazard Anticipation: A Parent-Focused Intervention”

SAVIR Excellence in Violence and Injury Prevention Science

Winner: Henry Xiang, MD, MPH, PhD, MBA, Ohio State University

SAVIR Early Career Excellence Award

Winner: Shannon Guillot-Wright, PhD, UT Health Houston School of Public Health

SAVIR Local Changemaker Award

Winner: Catherine Stayton, DrPH, New York City (NYC) Department of Health

SAVIR President’s Award

Winner: David Hemenway, PhD, Harvard University

SAVIR Outstanding Service Award

Elizabeth O’Neal, PhD, MPH, University of Iowa

Brooks Webb Student Paper Prize

Winner: Katrina Kennedy, MPH, Johns Hopkins University