“It is the first book I recommend to students or public health practitioners looking for an introduction to the field of injury control.” 

—David Hemenway, Ph.D., Director,
Harvard Injury Control Research Center
Harvard School of Public Health

“As with the first edition, Injury Prevention and Public:   Practical Knowledge, Skills, and Strategies will provide practitioners and researchers at all levels of experience and expertise a valuable and important resource as they work collectively toward the prevention of injuries and violence.” 

—David Scharf, MPH, Executive Director,
State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association

“For my students and for me, this book has proven to be a vital reference.  It helps us plan how to actually get the work of injury prevention accomplished in the real world. It tells it like it is.”

—Charles Mock, MD, PhD, Director,
Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center
Associate Professor, University of Washington

   “This comprehensive “go-to” book fills an important gap for injury prevention practitioners—it has replaced a shelf full of other references in my office!”

—Barb Alberson, MPH, Chief, State & Local Injury Control Section,
CA Department of Health Services

“Injury prevention can be a life and death matter.  This book, written by people with real-life experience, provides the approach to translate research into effective practice.  For a new generation that wants to make a difference in injury prevention, it is a must-read.”

—Larry Cohen, Executive Director, Prevention Institute, Oakland, CA,
Chair, Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section
American Public Health Association

   “This book is an essential tool for practitioners and researchers working in the field of injury prevention.  It provides a foundation for prevention work that can be used by clinicians in trauma and emergency care, students from a range of disciplines and public  health practitioners." 

—Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN, Associate Professor of Surgery (Emergency Medicine) and Public Health, Emergency Medicine Research Director, Yale University