The Illinois Injury Prevention Center serves Illinois and the Midwest as a resource for injury research and prevention. We are committed to providing timely and informative research to scientists, journalists, and policy makers about injuries occurring in both the workplace and community.

Funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (CDC-NIOSH) allows our research team to conduct original research, interventions, and training to prevent occupational injuries and illnesses. Workplace injuries impact the health, well-being, and productivity of tens of thousands of Illinois workers every year. Low wage workers, teens, older workers, immigrants and people with disabilities are disproportionately affected by injuries at work. Following the research to practice model, our faculty use their findings to develop interventions with community partners and other occupational health stakeholders to promote prevention of workplace injuries.

Our research team specializes in analyses of large population based datasets, longitudinal cohorts, surveillance systems, data linkage and multi-center projects. A key goal of our research is to identify common risk factors of injury across realms that are traditionally evaluated separately: the environment, home/community and workplace. Our researchers conduct a wide array of community focused research relating to violence across the lifespan, substance use disorders, traffic safety, poisoning, self-harm, and impact of climate change on injury risk.