Research Experience

Center faculty are experts in the area injury research and translation—securing some $30 million dollars in grant funding as Principal Investigators in the last five years. Here is a listing of studies led by members of the Internal Advisory Committee over the last five years.

GRANT SUPPORT: UNINTENTIONAL INJURY

PI: Bingham
Centers for Disease Control
Translating Teen Driver and Parent Interventions into Diverse Practice Settings
09/30/07-09/29/10
$1,327,395

PI: Bingham
National Institute for Child Health and Human Development
Experimental Research on the Effect of Teenage Passengers on Teenage Driving Performance
09/22/10-09/21/13
$1,285,823

PI: Bingham
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Tailored Web Program to Reduce At-Risk College Drinking
01/01/06-12/31/10
$1,779,501

PI: Bingham
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Translating the Checkpoints Program for State-Wide Distribution on the Web
09/1/08-08/31/12
$1,400,000

PI: Bingham
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Pilot Assessment of the Use of a Device for Parental Monitoring of Novice Teen Drivers
10/01/09-05/31/11
$83,100

PI: Bingham
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Tailored Web Program to Reduce At-Risk College Drinking
01/01/06-12/31/10
$1,779,501

PIs: Cunningham/Walton
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Optimizing Brief Alcohol Intervention for Underage Drinkers in the ER
06/01/2009-05/31/2014
$3,689,934

PI: Ehrlich
Office of the Vice Provost for Research, University of Michigan
Development of a novel objective measure to monitor bicycle helmet use in children.
4/2007-4/2009

PI: Ehrlich
University of Michigan, Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research
Alcohol and Injury and Adolescents. A Computer-based Intervention
09/01/07-8/31/09

PI: Ehrlich
University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
A brief tailored family-centered seatbelt intervention for hospitalized trauma patients
11/2008-11/2009

PI: Ehrlich
Bone and Joint Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation Center
Measurement of Maximum Hand-Rail and Hand-Rung Coupling Forces in Children
1/1/2009-1/12010

PI: Shope
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Translating an Effective Teen Driving Program for Parents to Primary Care
09/01/09 – 08/31/12
$1,289,217

PI: Shope
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (through agreements with National Safety Council and TKC Integration Services, LLC)
Reducing Motor Vehicle Crash Risk Among Adolescent Drivers: Taking Checkpoints to the Next Level
09/30/05-08/31/09
$250,000

PI: Zimmerman
National Institute of Health
Virtual network influences on young adults' alcohol and drug use
09/30/09-08/31/11
$926,262

PI: Zimmerman
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Protective Factors for Alcohol Use among Urban Adolescents
03/10/08-02/28/10
$152,000

GRANT SUPPORT: INTENTIONAL INJURY

PI: Cunningham
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Substance Use and Violent Injury among Youth in an Urban ED--Services & Outcomes
06/01/2009-05/31/2014
$3,008,486

PI: Lipton
National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
The Geography of Violence and Alcohol in Boston
6/1/2009-5/31/2011

PI: Walton M
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Tailored Teen Alcohol and Violence Prevention in the ER
03/01/05 - 02/28/10
$3,022,075

PI: Zimmerman
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
MI Youth Violence Prevention Center
10/1/10-09/30/15
$6,488,010

PI: Zimmerman
National Institute on Drug Abuse
A longitudinal study of school dropout and substance use
09/30/07-08/31/12
$15,228

PI: Zimmerman
Centers for Disease Control
Youth Empowerment Solutions for Peaceful Communities (YES)
09/01/04-08/31/09
$2,025,433

 

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