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Epidemiology

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Research interests: Firearm injury, particularly suicide prevention and means safety

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:
President

Epidemiology

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Urology

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T32 Postdoctoral Scholar Fellow

Research interests: Pediatric injury and violence prevention, community violence, natural hazards, social vulnerabilities, environmental justice and health disparities

SOM: Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine: Education JM Resident/Fellow

Anesthesiology

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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 Welefare, SSW

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University of Washington
Ph.D. in Epidemiology

Why do you study injury?

Most of my research in injury has focus on non-fatal and fatal drug overdoses. Injuries cause a significant morbidity and mortality burden at the population level, while also contributing to loss of quality of life, emotional impacts to family members and loved ones, and societal impacts. Many of the injuries that I study are preventable with appropriate harm reduction, treatment, and policy interventions, and I enjoy thinking about how to evaluate policies and programs to provide the evidence-base for public health practitioners to reduce these impacts.

What surprises you about injury research?

How many differing disciplines, methodologies, and topic areas are encompassed within this broad research area. An injury researcher may have very different training and skillsets depending on their specific focus area, which provides a unique and exciting multi-disciplinary learning environment!

I also love to talk about:

North Carolina (the Tar Heels, the Blue Ridge Mountains & Emerald coast, and the strong opinions I have about BBQ sauce), National Parks, and my adorable beagle/lab mix, Blue!

Fellow Physician, Spinal Cord Injury Medicine

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington

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Research interests: medical care and recovery after violence-related injury, violence-related spinal cord injury, medical and rehabilitation care for patients who are involved in the criminal justice system, health equity after traumatic and violence-related injury

Surgery

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T32 Fellow Trainee

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Research Interests: I research the intersection of violence and health, the correlates and consequences of formal violence interventions (e.g., legal, medical, and social), and youth violent victimization.

Social Work

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Kelsey is a predoctoral student in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington (UW) and a trainee with the Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center and the Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program. She earned an MPH from UW focusing on the emergency health service utilization of individuals experiencing houselessness. Her current research employs equity-focused mixed-methods and community-engaged research to investigate firearm safety behaviors and evaluate policies to reduce the burden of firearm-related injuries and deaths. Kelsey is also interested in techniques to prevent disproportionate effects of policies on communities of color.

Doctoral Student, University of Washington in the Department of Epidemiology

Research Interests: Kim Dalve’s interests are at the intersection of the legal system and public health. Her current research includes examining social determinants of firearm injury, the effect of COVID-19 on access to domestic violence protection orders, and public policy effects on youth violence. 

Other interests include: criminal legal system; domestic violence; firearm injury; violence prevention; social determinants of health; psychiatric epidemiology; alternatives to incarceration

Trauma Faculty Fellow, HMC

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Pediatrics

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Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

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General Surgery

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Public Policy

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Epidemiology

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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!

Trauma Injury & Inflammation

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Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, UW

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Resident SOM: Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine: Education JM Resident/Fellow

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, UW

Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Seattle Children’s Hospital

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Research Interests: Pediatric traumatic brain injury

Masters of Public Health Student, Epidemiology

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

Doctoral Candidate, School of Social Work

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Research Interests: Research interests: transgender intracommunity support & the subsequent impact on individual wellbeing, improving trans experiences of physical & mental healthcare, the treatment & experiences of multiply marginalized communities

Urology

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