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Luciana C. Assini-Meytin, PhD, MS is an Associate Scientist at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, affiliated with the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. 

More than $400,000 in grants will support innovative projects that improve the health and well-being of communities across the U.S.

The held their annual conference April 7-9 at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York City. We were lucky to be hosted by the Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention. Over 500 participants from around the country participated in this premier conference to share and learn about life-saving research to prevent injuries and violence.

Most families in Surangudi village, India, have lost a limb or loved one in explosions and fires in the area’s fireworks factories, which produce 90% of the fireworks in India. 

One city in India produces 90% of the country’s fireworks, generating jobs and profits. But fireworks factory workers face risks of explosions and fires in their daily work—and some 50–100 die every year.