Welcome to the Injury and Violence Prevention Teaching Resource Hub—a dedicated space for faculty committed to preparing the next generation of prevention professionals. Whether you teach public health, medicine, nursing, social work, criminal justice, or other related disciplines at the undergraduate or graduate-level, this site offers curated tools, evidence-based content, and practical strategies to help you integrate injury and violence prevention into your courses. Resources will continue to be added to this page, including syllabi, case studies, multimedia materials, and more—designed to enrich learning, spark engagement, and foster the skills needed to tackle one of the world’s most pressing public health challenges. Materials were developed through a partnership between SAVIR and the Safe States Alliance.
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Video Lectures
The SAVIR YouTube Channel features a Teaching Hub playlist of videos developed to served as resources for teaching about injury and violence prevention in public health and related courses. This series of lectures introduces the concepts of injury and violence as key public health issues. It is designed for use in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses addressing broad public health concepts. By providing examples from injury and violence, we aim to increase general knowledge about these critical public health issues for all students. Additionally, the lectures may provide initial exposure for students who may become interested in more in-depth learning about specific injury and violence topics and pursue careers in the field.
Who is the intended audience? These resources are for teachers to use in their education with graduate or undergraduate students studying any aspect of public health as well as those in nursing, medicine, dentistry, social work and other health sciences disciplines. The lectures are also suitable for use in continuing education programs for injury professionals or those working in other aspects of health sciences. The lectures will also be useful to newer professors trained in injury control who are developing new courses.
How are the lectures structure? There are both long lectures and, in some cases, shorter versions that introduce the concepts in a briefer format to enable instructors to use the material in different ways that suit their educational goals and teaching approaches. Each lecture signals the CEPH criteria it covers so as to help faculty ensure they are meeting the accreditation criteria in their programs. Also, each lecturer provided information for additional readings and exercises to help students practice using the information.
Learning from Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention (45 minute video)
David Hemenway, PhD, Harvard University
Suggested use: courses focused on basic principles of public health
Learning objectives:
- Explaining and apply the public health approach to reducing injury
- Discuss the importance of data systems in reducing injury
- Recognizing the role individuals and groups can play in injury prevention
CEPH criteria:
15. Evaluate any policies for their impact on public health and health equity
Planning Public Health Interventions: The Haddon Matrix and the Third Dimension (shorter version; 14 minute video)
Carol Runyan, MPH, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Suggested use: courses focused on public health program or policy planning
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the elements of the Haddon Matrix as an intervention planning tool
- Explain process of using value criteria (third dimension) in decision making
- Apply the planning model to specific topics
CEPH Criteria:
9. Design a population-based policy, program, project or intervention
8. Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design, implementation or critique of public health policies or programs
Planning Public Health Interventions: The Haddon Matrix and the Third Dimension (full version; 58 minute video)
Carol Runyan, MPH, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Suggested use: courses focused on public health program or policy planning
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the elements of the Haddon Matrix as an intervention planning tool
- Explain process of using value criteria (third dimension) in decision making
- Apply the planning model to specific topics
CEPH Criteria:
9. Design a population-based policy, program, project or intervention
8. Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design, implementation or critique of public health policies or programs
Health Behavior and Health Education: Examples from Injury Prevention (shorter version; 22 minute video)
Andrea Gielen, ScD, ScM, Johns Hopkins University
Suggested use: courses focused on health education or behavioral science
Learning Objectives:
- Identify at least three examples of behaviors that reduce the risk of childhood injury
- Become skilled in building effective behavior change programs using the PRECEDE/PROCEED planning framework
- Give examples of the three types of intervention strategies that are effective for addressing predisposing, reinforcing and enabling factors that influence a behavior
CEPH Criteria:
7. Assess population needs, assets and capacities that affect communities’ health
8. Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design, implementation, or critique of public health policies or programs
9. Design a population-based policy, program, project or intervention
18. Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors
Health Behavior and Health Education: Examples from Injury Prevention (full version; 60 minute video)
Andrea Gielen, ScD, ScM, Johns Hopkins University
Suggested use: courses focused on health education or behavioral science
Learning Objectives:
- Identify at least three examples of behaviors that reduce the risk of childhood injury
- Become skilled in building effective behavior change programs using the PRECEDE/PROCEED planning framework
- Give examples of the three types of intervention strategies that are effective for addressing predisposing, reinforcing and enabling factors that influence a behavior
CEPH Criteria:
7. Assess population needs, assets and capacities that affect communities’ health
8. Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design, implementation, or critique of public health policies or programs
9. Design a population-based policy, program, project or intervention
18. Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors
Other Video Resources
Standing on the Shoulders of Pioneers – Looking Back to Envision the Future – Presentation on the history of injury and violence prevention by Carol Runyan, PhD, MPH – presented at SAVIR Annual Conference, April 2024. Recorded October 2024.
BulletPoints website – A resource from the California Firearm Violence Research Center at UC Davis for clinicians and medical educators who are committed to firearm injury prevention, including courses, clinical scenarios, educational videos and more.
Online Courses
MOOCs from Michigan Injury Prevention Center – The University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center offers three online courses on Injury Prevention, the Opioid Crisis, and Interpersonal and Dating Violence. These courses are free, self-paced and offer continuing education credits.
Data Resources
The Connecticut Violent Mortality Dashboard – An interactive mapping dashboard rom the UConn ARMS website that allows users to visualize Connecticut’s violent deaths geographically and by select demographic characteristics.
The Injury Control Research to Practice and Policy (RPP) Core at Rhode Island Hospital’s Injury Control Warehouse is an online resource which houses measurement tools for injury constructs and open-source programming code related to injury science research. It also houses links to public access injury control data sources, de-identified data from COBRE projects for future public use, and documents for data sharing agreements.
The Harms and Benefits Inventory (HBI) is a tool policymakers can use to survey citizens and better craft firearm safety laws and regulations. Developed by researchers Damion J. Grasso, Kerri M. Raissian, Mitchell Doucette, Austen Bradley McGuire, and Jennifer Necci Dineen, the inventory seeks to capture the nuances of firearm owners’ perception through a novel instrument.