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Answering the call for better science: an update on SAVIR’s efforts to advance antiracism in injury and violence research
  1. Shabbar I Ranapurwala1,2,
  2. Theresa H Cruz3,
  3. Bernadette Hohl4,
  4. Regan Murray5,
  5. Christen Rexing6,
  6. Silvia Villarreal7,
  7. Dominique M Rose8,
  8. Ashley Brooks-Russell9,10
  1. 1Department of Epidemiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
  2. 2Injury Prevention Research Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
  3. 3Prevention Research Center, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
  4. 4Penn Injury Science Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  5. 5Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  6. 6Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research Media, Media, Pennsylvania, USA
  7. 7Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  8. 8Center for Injury Research and Policy, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA
  9. 9Community and Behavioral Health, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado, USA
  10. 10Injury and Violence Prevention Center, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Shabbar I Ranapurwala; sirana{at}email.unc.edu

Abstract

In response to the call for better science that the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) put out 4 years ago, SAVIR established its Anti-racism Interest Group (AIG) and charged it to lead antiracism efforts at SAVIR. The SAVIR AIG has led SAVIR’s efforts to actively integrate antiracism principles and frameworks into injury and violence prevention (IVP) education, research, methods, dissemination and implementation as a field, and more specifically into each of SAVIR committee activities and strategies. In this article, we detail those efforts and outline the immediate next steps of a vision that is developing and the course we are taking. But we acknowledge that these efforts are only the beginning on the long road ahead to fully rid ourselves (as a society), our science and our field of IVP of the scourge that racism is.

  • Health Disparities
  • Violence
  • Injury Diagnosis
  • Burden Of Disease

https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2024-045504

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    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.