SCOPE - Global Injury and Violence Prevention Summer School, Romania
14 – 30 June 2021
Description
The Global Injury and Violence Prevention Summer School (SCOPE) will take place virtually between 14 – 30 June 2021 having as main target group graduate students (MA, MPH and PhD) and young professionals interested in the Injury and Violence Prevention and/or global public health domains. The course is organized by the Department of Public Health, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania in cooperation with The University of Iowa, USA.
This 13 day-long summer school offers a professional introduction and training in injury and violence prevention methodology and practical application from a global perspective. Participants will be involved in panels, presentations, workshops and virtual visits to local agencies for a global, hands-on experience. Being a 13-day long program, the activities will consist of 2-3 hours of activities each day, with the possibility of adding optional working sessions. During the first week (14-18 June) the focus of the summer school will be to work with injury research methods and data, with the possibility of presenting the work at the virtual conference International Online Conference on Non-Communicable Diseases “Injury and Violence Prevention – Global Perspectives” held on 21-22 June 2021. During the second week (23-30 June), the focus of the summer school will be to work on developing research projects in the violence and injury prevention field.
Workshops during the training course will be taught by a number of
Injury and Violence Prevention experts from Romania and the U.S in a
synchronous virtual manner. During the period of 14-18 June and 23-30
June participants will have synchronous virtual courses for 2-3 hours
that they will need to attend. More information about this aspect will
be communicated once the final program is established.
Funding
This course is being conducted as part of the iCREATE: Increasing Capacity in Research in Eastern Europe project. This NIH-funded project is coordinated by the University of Iowa) and offers public health research training to LMIC partners in Eastern Europe. If accepted to the program, you will be joined in class by public health and medical graduate students and clinicians from Moldova, Armenia and Georgia.
Aims
The Global Injury and Violence Prevention Summer School aims to equip participants with the following competencies:
- Understand the basic theory and approaches to injury and violence prevention (Haddon matrix, socioecological model, etc.)
- Describe the burden of injury and violence globally
- Understand and estimate basic injury epidemiology measures
- Understand how to measure injuries and collect data
- Identify the leading causes of injury and their populations at risk
- Identify and prioritize different approaches to the prevention of injuries
- Understand the importance of human rights, social welfare, and advocacy in the violence and injury prevention decision-making process
All participants will receive a certificate of completion of the course from Babes-Bolyai University and from Injury Prevention Research Center, University of Iowa.
Costs
The registration fee for the Global Injury and Violence Prevention Summer School (SCOPE) is 100 Euro. We are pleased to offer financial support, under the form of scholarship, to a limited number of participants. Financial support consists of a waiver of registration fee for the Global Injury and Violence Prevention Summer School (SCOPE). If you wish to apply for the financial support, please mention this aspect in the letter describing the rationale and justification for the application.
Application Process
Applications shall include a CV, a letter of recommendation from a supervisor, and a letter which describes a rationale and justification for the application (maximum 2 single spaced pages). Applications must be sent to madalina.coman@publichealth.ro by May 7th , 2021.
The selected candidates will be notified by May 14th , 2021. If selected, candidates will be required to pay the tuition fee by June 1, 2021 in order to be accepted into the program (if they did not receive a scholarship from the organizing institution).
Contact
All questions regarding course content, application process, cost of the program, or other concerns should be directed to Mădălina Coman, researcher in the iCREATE Grant at madalina.coman@publichealth.ro.
