Categories: CDC Injury Center, Injury Response, Motor Vehicle Safety
August 21st, 2012 1:05 pm ET -
On this Boulevard de La Madeleine, Paris France, Dr. David Sleet was struck by a car – his pedestrian story impacts the work he does for the CDC Injury Center.
Guest blogger: David Sleet, PhD
I was a graduate student in Paris in 1972 – my first solo trip to the city of light. It was dusk and a group of classmates and I made our way to Boulevard de La Madeleine to shop. The narrow, seemingly pedestrian-friendly boulevard was alive, and it was cluttered with tourists and Parisians taking in the last minutes of light.
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Categories: CDC Injury Center, Home & Recreational Safety
July 31st, 2012 10:23 am ET -
Guest blogger: Julie Gilchrist, MD
Julie Gilchrist, MD
People who work in hospitals and emergency departments can tell you. Treating kids is a hard job—especially when a child comes in with a serious injury that could have been prevented. I still get sad remembering some of the cases I worked on as a doctor in Philadelphia—many of my stories don’t have happy endings.
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Categories: CDC Injury Center, Violence Prevention
June 18th, 2012 11:15 am ET -
Dr. Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN
Last December, I was having a conversation with a friend about how many people are actually affected by intimate partner violence (IPV). When I said that 1 out of 4 women had experienced some form of intimate partner violence in their lifetime, my friend responded, “But, I don’t know anyone who has been abused.” My response: “You just don’t think you know anyone. It is hidden so often, and we often don’t think that intimate partner violence affects our friends and families.”
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Categories: CDC Injury Center, Home & Recreational Safety, Motor Vehicle Safety, Traumatic Brain Injury
June 13th, 2012 10:19 am ET -
We are excited to see how injury and violence professionals, students, and the general public can showcase what injury and violence prevention looks like in their own communities through the “Seeing My World through a Safer Lens” video contest. This challenge will award $500 per category (Student View, Injury and Violence Professional View, and General Public View) for the video that best reflects a prevention story about Violence Prevention, Home and Recreational Safety, Motor Vehicle Safety, or Traumatic Brain Injury.
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Categories: CDC Injury Center, Motor Vehicle Safety, Traumatic Brain Injury
June 5th, 2012 2:08 pm ET -
Guest blogger: Jessica Burke
Jessica's car after the crash
I could be a web developer anywhere. So, why do I choose to work at CDC’s Injury Center?
It’s because I know what it means to suffer a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). And I know how important it is to help prevent other people from going through what I went through one Thursday in August 2005.
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Categories: CDC Injury Center, Home & Recreational Safety
May 22nd, 2012 11:12 am ET -
Dr. Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN
Starting from the time when drawings on cave walls portrayed tales about human life, people have been using images to tell their stories. Even a simple image can quickly communicate thousands of details, increase understanding about a difficult topic, or help us comprehend the relevance of complex data.
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Categories: CDC Injury Center, Violence Prevention
May 9th, 2012 2:28 pm ET -
Deb Karch, PhD
Guest blogger: Deb Karch, PhD
I wrote my first suicide note when I was 13 years old. I hid it and the many more that followed in my stamp collection, books or other secret hideaways, all places I knew my mom would never look. For the next 15 years, each time I packed up my belongings for another move, I would find another one I had forgotten about. I would read each one with dismay. I learned the hard way that an overdose only resulted in having to drink a thick black charcoal concoction with one ankle strapped to a bed frame to keep me from taking off. Running the car in the garage took far too long and two rounds of Russian roulette proved me to be a very lucky woman.
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Categories: CDC Injury Center, Violence Prevention
April 20th, 2012 8:45 am ET -
Dr. Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN
We see and hear about violence and acts of violence every day. Some of these events have become so common that we no longer notice them, or are desensitized to their impact. Occasionally, an act of violence grabs our attention, and moves us to want to do something to change the situation.
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Categories: CDC Injury Center, Motor Vehicle Safety
April 9th, 2012 2:11 pm ET -
Guest Blogger: Lee Annest, Ph.D, MS
Dr. Lee Annest
You see crashes on the roads all of the time, but you don’t ever think it’ll actually happen to you. My wife and I were driving down a crowded interstate in Atlanta a couple of years ago when a speeding car swerved and crashed into our van, and then we were hit by three other cars going 65 mph. The fact that we walked away with only stiff necks and minor injuries seemed like a miracle….or was it? We were wearing our seat belts and our van took the brunt of the impact because of good engineering and front and side air bags. I do what I do at the CDC Injury Center because I believe that little things like wearing seat belts and air bags really do save lives, and I have good reason to believe.
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Categories: Traumatic Brain Injury
March 16th, 2012 11:47 am ET -
Dr. Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN
For many Native American tribes, the brown bear is a symbol of courage, strength, protection, and life. On November 27, 2009, as I was getting dressed to go out to dinner with my husband Bruce Carmichael and friends, a thought ran through my head that I should wear my Native American bear pin, as I might need courage that evening. Where this feeling came from is unclear, but it certainly proved to be true
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