Answering the call for better science: an update on SAVIR’s efforts to advance antiracism in injury and violence research
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.
Authors
- Shabbar I. Ranapurwala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3944-3912)
- Regan Murray (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7396-6517)
- Theresa H. Cruz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6279-7463)
- Christen Rexing
- Bernadette Hohl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2901-281X)
- Ashley Brooks‐Russell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7728-8423)
- D. Rose (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4577-5139)
- Silvia Villarreal
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Nationwide Children's Hospital (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Colorado School of Public Health (US)
- University of New Mexico (US)
- Faculty of Media (SI)
- Penn Center for AIDS Research (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Injury Prevention
- Published
- 2024-10-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2024-045504
- Primary Topic
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00