Affiliated Projects & Partners
The Center for Injury Research and Prevention's work overlaps with several other research centers, both within The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and nationally.
Community Organizations
The Center for Injury Research and Prevention is committed to supporting and participating in research that will directly impact the West Philadelphia community in which The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is located.
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SafeKids of Southeastern Pennsylvania Coalition
SafeKids of Southeastern Pennsylvania, based at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, is part of SAFEKIDS Worldwide. Regionally, the SafeKids mission is to promote the prevention of childhood injuries in Pennsylvania through education, collaboration and advocacy.
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Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center (PCVPC)
Violence is taking its toll among young people in many of the country's urban communities, including Philadelphia, where the Center for Injury Research and Prevention is based. The Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center (PCVPC) was established in 2006 as a partnership among leading research institutions and community-based violence prevention programs. This synergistic partnership is facilitated through a cooperative agreement with The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with the goal of preventing violence and aggression in the lives of young people in West and Southwest Philadelphia.
Research Collaborations
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The Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress
The Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress (CPTS) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia develops and evaluates empirically-based interventions for children who have experienced traumatic stress due to medical illness or injury, and for their families. This includes developing manualized "best practice" protocols for preventing and treating traumatic stress, and establishing service delivery models to integrate prevention and treatment into healthcare and school-based systems. Current areas of intervention development focus on traumatic stress related to life-threatening illness, acute injury and critical care.
The Injury Center team is currently working with CPTS on projects looking to improve communication about traumatic stress post-injury between acute and follow-up care settings. Click here to download informational materials for parents and healthcare providers developed by CPTS and the Injury Center. -
The Center for Simulation, Advanced Education, and Innovation
The Center for Simulation, Advanced Education, and Innovation at CHOP is developing interventions that will improve the timing, duration, intensity and quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to improve survival and quality of life following life-threatening and critical illness. The Center’s research is focused on developing tools that will enable high-quality collaborative registries and trial networks to accomplish this goal.
Researchers from the Center for Injury Research and Prevention are collaborating with the Center for Simulation, Advanced Education, and Innovation team. Through a novel device designed to coach the proper administration of CPR compressions, researchers can measure the amount of chest compression and the applied chest force during CPR. Bridging the gap between clinical medicine and engineering, this force-compression data is then used to develop crash test dummies that deform like humans, thus improving the safety of children in motor vehicle crashes.