Education & Training
Promoting state-of-the-art education and training, cultivating advocates, and providing hands-on opportunities to prevent and reduce intentional and unintentional injuries.
We are an interdisciplinary core representing schools of public health, medicine, and nursing. Our expertise and forthcoming workshops, education, and training opportunities include trauma informed care, criminal justice, firearm survivorship, implementation science, programming, and pediatric unintentional injuries among others. To learn more about programming, please contact Dr. Christine Markham.
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Injury & Violence Prevention Certification
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Health Policy Trainings
VIPR Summer Research and Practice Experience
VIPR is proud to present our inaugural Summer Research and Practice Experience students. This program provides students, residents, and fellows with hands-on opportunities to develop skills in injury and violence prevention. Through applied research, practice-based projects, and mentorship, participants gain the knowledge and experience needed to prevent and respond to injury and violence in diverse settings.
Aisha Khemani, Rice University
2025 Summer Cohort
Mahtab Dastur, Rice University
La'Quala Terrell, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health
Sophie Schott, UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School
Muhammed Ahmed, University of Houston
Sydney Wingate Huffman, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health
Roldyne Dolce, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health