The Illinois Injury Prevention Center serves Illinois aims to provide occupational and community injury related research for the U.S., Midwest and Illinois. Our work is funded by federal and state agencies, and we broadly collaborate with stakeholders in government, the private sector, academia and advocacy groups.
Occupational Health and Safety Research
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. Our work primarily focuses on the most vulnerable in the workforce: low wage workers, teens, older workers, immigrants and people with disabilities. We also develop and analyze health surveilllance systems to better characterize occupational risk factors to help policy makers and regulators improve safety for workers in the U.S. and internationally.
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Community Injury Prevention
Our researchers also conduct a wide array of research focused on the community setting relating to violence across the lifespan, traffic safety, poisoning, self-harm, and substance use disorders. We specialize in analyses of large population based datasets, longitudinal cohorts, surveillance systems, data linkage and multi-center projects. A key goal of our research is identify common risk factors of injury across realms that are traditionally evaluated separately: the environment, home/community and workplace. As with our occupational health research, our main objective is to inform injury safety policy to improve individual lives across all domains.