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Program Director, Forensic Pathology Fellowship;

Chief Medical Examiner, King County

Bio: Drug abuse prevention programs at the community, school and family level.

Manager, Violence & Injury Prevention,

Public Health-Seattle & King County;

Executive Board Member-Safe States Alliance;

Clinical Faculty, University of Washington School of Public Health;

Affiliate Member, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center

Bio: Gomez represents Public Health-Seattle & King County as Manager of its Violence and Injury Prevention Unit. Gomez has been active in community campaigns to promote traffic safety, encourage safe storage of firearms, promote suicide awareness and prevent drowning.

Epidemiology

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Pediatrics

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Research Interests: Intimate partner violence, sexual violence, adolescent health, social epidemiology.

Public Policy

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University of Washington
Major/Field of Study: Epidemiology PhD

Why do you study injury?
Violence and injury are a leading cause of child mortality and morbidity worldwide

What surprises you about injury research?
The shocking statistics and inequality. For example, 95% of injury deaths among children occur in low- and middle-income countries.

When I was a kid, I wanted to become:
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Research Scientist, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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Epidemiology

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University of Washington
Major/Field of Study: Epidemiology

• Why do you study injury?
  • My interest in injury research began when I was working for a prosecuting attorney processing paperwork for domestic violence cases and DUI charges. It opened my eyes to how widespread these sources of injury are. Injury captures such a broad range of causes, intents, and at-risk populations that there is always something new to explore. Injury is frequently on all of our minds as it tends to be in the news, which is especially true as someone working in firearms. It is really rewarding to participate in research that is meaningful and contributes to a conversation that’s happening on such a big stage.
• What surprises you about injury research?
  • There are so many facets of injury research that affect so many different populations. What really surprises me about injury research is talking to other people working in epidemiology and hearing about their diverse projects – some that I wouldn’t have typically associated with injury epi. It’s also interesting how each subset of injury seems to have a controversy of its own. Most of my injury work thus far has been related to firearms and it’s a big conversation in politics today, but it’s interesting to hear from other epidemiologists that they’re fighting their own political battles over interventions like helmet laws.
• When I was a kid, I wanted to become:
  • I really wanted to be a detective like Encylopedia Brown or Nancy Drew! Sometimes I like to think of epidemiology as mystery solving, albeit in a world with fewer secret passages.

Social Work

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Doctoral Student, Epidemiology

Research Interests: Ecological and social determinants of violence and firearm injury.

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University of Washington
Major/Field of Study: Epidemiology PhD

• Why do you study injury?
  • Injury is somewhat a neglected area of research in Bangladesh, my home country. I was fortunate enough to meet a few of the most brilliant injury researchers in the country as my teachers, mentors and later colleagues. The inspiration to start injury research (and research in general as well) originated from them while the urge to continue came from realizing the impact that injury research, especially done from a preventive focus, can have in LMIC settings.
• What surprises you about injury research?
  • Injury research is capable of pointing out that preventing injuries can oftentimes be so simple yet we (people) accept this as fate in many parts of the world. Injury research and programs seem to me like magic tricks that can produce beautiful sure-shot outcomes.
• When I was a kid, I wanted to become:
  • So many things at a time…a doctor, a scientist, a traveler, an astronaut, a superhero!

Masters of Public Health Student, Epidemiology

Research Interests: Injuries and social determinants of health; translation to policy and practice.

Epidemiology

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Acting Assistant Professor & Research Consultant, Department of Pediatrics

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Research Scientist, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

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Research Scientist
Assistant Professor, Sociology

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Research Interests: Demography, Internal U.S. Migration, Residential Mobility, Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Outcomes, Gender, Family Studies, Work and Family, Statistics, and Research Methods

Research Scientist, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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Research Scientist, Epidemiology

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Public Information Specialist, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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Research Coordinator, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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Research Coordinator
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

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Epidemiologist, Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program

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