Injury Research

Dr. Guohua Li is the Finster Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and College of Physicians & Surgeons. A medical epidemiologist, Dr. Li is interested in research methodology and injury-related, population-based and policy-oriented studies that encompass innovative epidemiologic designs, novel biostatistical techniques, and complex data systems. Dr. Li has published over 130 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and is well known for his studies of aviation crashes and the role of alcohol in injury causation and trauma outcomes. A Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, Dr. Li is the recipient of the Kenneth Rothman Epidemiology Prize (1999) and the John Paul Stapp Award (2009). Dr. Susan P. Baker is the Professor of Health Policy and Management and the founding director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is widely recognized as one of the founders of the scientific discipline of injury epidemiology and prevention and is credited for developing the Injury Severity Score, a simple and effective tool for measuring the severity of multiple trauma that has been used worldwide by clinicians and researchers. She has authored over 300 publications, including the influential text Injury Fact Book, 1st and 2nd editions. Prof. Baker has received numerous awards, including the Charles A. Dana Award for Pioneering Achievements in Health and Higher Education and the Excellence in Research Award of the American Public Health Association.

From the book reviews: "This is a multiauthored review of strategies for the investigation of injury and identification of treatment strategies. ... Clinicians and basic scientists seeking to understand patterns of injury and potential treatment strategies are an appropriate audience for this book ... . This is a worthwhile tool for committed investigators of this important public health problem." (David J. Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, February, 2015) "Guohua Li ... have brought together a team of global experts from public health, medicine, engineering, and behavioral and social sciences to write about the latest advances in theories and methods for understanding the causes, mechanisms, and outcomes of injury as well as the strategies to prevent injuries. ... this is an essential reference book for anyone interested in violence prevention, emergency medical services, trauma care, risk assessment, crash investigation and litigation, and vehicle, occupational, recreational, and home safety." (Medical Xpress, January, 2012)

• Part I. Injury Surveillance.- Chapter 1. Surveillance of Injury Mortality.- Chapter 2. Surveillance of Injury Morbidity.- Chapter 3. Injury Surveillance in Special Populations.- Chapter 4. Surveillance of Traumatic Brain Injury.- Part II. Injury Causation.- Chapter 5. Forensic Patholoy.- Chapter 6.Determination of Injury Mechanisms.- Chapter 7. Ergonomics.- Chapter 8. Experimental Methods.- Chapter 9. Epidemiologic Methods.- Chapter 10.- Qualitative Methods.- Chapter 11. Environmental Determinants.- Chapter 12. Behavioral Determinants.- Part III. Injury Outcome.- Chapter 13. Injury Profiling.- Chapter 14. Injury Severity Scaling.- Chapter 15. Triage.- Chapter 16. Prediction Rules.- Chapter 17. Biomarkers of Traumatic Injuries.- Chapter 18. Functional Outcomes.- Chapter 19. Injury Costing Frameworks.- Part IV. Analytical Approaches.- Chapter 20. Statistical Considerations.- Chapter 21. Video Data Analysis.- Chapter 22. Age-Period-Cohort Modeling.- Chapter 23. Multilevel Modeling.- Chapter 24. Geographic Information Systems.- Chapter 25. Spatial Regression.- Chapter 26. Social Network Analysis.- Part V.  Approaches to Injury Reduction.- Chapter 27. Legal Approach.- Chapter 28. Public Policy.- Chapter 29. Environmental Approach.- Chapter 30. Technological Approach.- Chapter 31. Behavioral Approach.- Chapter 32. EMS and Trauma Systems.- Chapter 33. Systems Approach to Patient Safety.- Chapter 34. Intervention in Low-Income Countries.- Chapter 35. Implementing and Evaluating Interventions.- Chapter 36. Economic Evaluation of Interventions.