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Explore our Summer Institute course offerings.

Principles and Practice of Injury and Violence Prevention (305.670) will be offered June 16-18, 2025 from 10:00am-3:50pm ET. The course will be offered hybrid, with options to attend onsite or online, although we encourage participants to attend in-person. The institute instructor is Renee M. Johnson, PhD, MPH, Associate Director for Training & Education with the Center for Injury Research & Policy. Additional instructors will include Jon Vernick, JD, MPH, Shannon Frattaroli, PhD, MPH, Wendy Shields, PhD, MPH and Elise Omaki, MHS. The course can be taken for 3 credits or for no credit. 

Injury is a leading cause of death for Americans. This course will provide public health professionals with fundamental skills to monitor and address injury and violence problems in the US. Lectures will cover the epidemiology of injury and violence, injury surveillance, policy and behavioral approaches to prevention, and outreach and community partnerships. Students work in small groups for practical application sessions to apply skills learned in the lectures. 

Advanced Injury Institute I: Overdose Prevention (305.866) will meet virtually, June 23-24, 2025 from 9:00am-4:30pm ET. Instructors are Olivia Sugarman, PhD, MPH and Catherine Tomko, PhD, MHS. The course can be taken for 1 credit or for no credit. 

More than 100,000 Americans die from overdose annually. This course will equip injury prevention researchers and practitioners to respond to overdose in their communities. It will cover the epidemiology of overdose, leading drugs and drug combinations that contribute to overdose, surveillance of fatal and nonfatal overdose, prevention strategies, and promising policies. The course will include lectures from BSPH faculty engaged in overdose prevention research and practice. 

Advanced Injury Institute II: Suicide Prevention (305.865) will meet virtually, June 25-26, 2025 from 9:00am-4:30pm ET. Instructors are Holly Wilcox, PhD, MA, and Paul Nestadt, MD.  The course can be taken for 1 credit or for no credit. 

Suicide is among the US’s most pressing public health challenges. This course offers training to enhance capacity to monitor and address suicide in communities across the nation. It will cover etiological factors, epidemiology and surveillance, prevention strategies, and promising policies. The course emphasizes suicide risk among vulnerable populations and targeted prevention strategies.

The Injury Summer Institute broadens, advances, and challenges existing skills and knowledge of injury prevention students and/or multi-disciplined injury prevention practitioners. It applies the National Core Competencies for Injury and Violence Prevention to the selected Injury or Violence topic for the term. In addition to the interactive synchronous context, students engage with content and apply public health principles to their own communities to promote skill building and experiential learning.