Education
Traffic Safety and Injury Control-Civil Engineering C265(Cross Listed) Public Health C285
3 Units TuTh 8-9:30A, 87 EVANS
Instructor: David Ragland, PhD, MPH Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC), affiliated with Institute of Transportation Studies and School of Public Health davidr@berkeley.edu
Guest Instructors: Koohong Chung, PhD (UC Berkeley), PE California Department of Transportation, Highway Operations Special Studies and Offer Grembek, PhD (UC Berkeley) Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC), affiliated with Institute of Transportation Studies and School of Public Health
Friday, April 6, at 12:30 pm (NOTE Different time) SafeTREC-UCTC Brownbag Seminar: "Spatio-temporal distributions of vulnerable road user injuries along San Pablo Avenue"
Presented by Yuanyuan Zhang, Visiting Scholar, Swati Pande, Research Associate, and Offer Grembek, Post-Doctoral Researcher in the 2nd Floor Conference Room, 2614 Dwight Way. Open to the Public. Discussion to follow.
All seminars are free and open to the public. Location: 2nd floor conference room at SafeTREC, 2614 Dwight Way. Free and open to the University community and the general public featuring both University and outside experts in traffic safety. Request to be notified when seminars occur. Email us for more information.
Public Health 285a Fall 2012 Injury Prevention and Control
Instructors: David Ragland, Director, SafeTREC, and Glenn Shor, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health School of Public Health.
Topics for Fall 2012: The general topic of injury is very diverse, including unintentional and intentional injury. This semester will begin with an overview of the field of injury. Most of the rest of the semester will focus on three injury topics: • Occupational Injury • Injury due to Medical Error and Medical Malpractice • Pedestrian and Bicyclist Injury These topics, in addition to being of great importance in their own right, illustrate the role of data and information in understanding injury as well as the major approaches to injury prevention. Download flyer.
Spring 2012
Traffic Safety and Injury Control-Civil Engineering C265(Cross Listed) Public Health C285
3 Units TuTh 5-6:30P, 544 Davis
This course is open to students of all academic backgrounds. Undergraduates welcome; please contact instructor for permission.Students will prepare and present a research paper.
Injuries from traffic crashes are a major cause of death and disability in the United States and around the world. In the United States, for people aged 1-34, injuries from traffic crashes are the LEADING cause of death and disability.
The course will examine principles of engineering and behavioral science relevant to preventing traffic collisions and subsequent injury. Human behavior, vehicle design, and roadway design will be considered as interacting approaches to preventing traffic crashes and injuries. Safety of vulnerable road users (primarily pedestrians and bicyclists) will be covered extensively.
Specific skill sets developed in the class are: (i) Analysis of traffic collision and injury data; (ii) Analysis of collision risk in a road network (network screening); (iii) Identifying causal factors; (iv) Identifying and evaluating countermeasures; (v) Road safety management.
Instructors:
David Ragland, PhD, MPH SafeTREC, 510-642-0655 davidr@berkeley.edu
Koohong Chung, PhD (UC Berkeley), PE California Department of Transportation, Highway Operations Special Studies koohong@berkeley.edu
Offer Grembek, PhD (UC Berkeley) SafeTREC grembek@berkeley.edu.
Download C265-C285 Course flyer.
Fall 2011
Public Health 285a - Injury Prevention and Control
Instructors
David Ragland PhD MPH
Safe Transportation Research and Education Centr
School of Public Health
Office: 2614 Dwight Way #7374 Tel: 510-642-0655
Email: davidr@ berkeley.edu
Glenn Shor, PhD MPP
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
School of Public Health
Office: 2614 Dwight Way #7374
Tel: 510-292-8449
Email: gshor@berkeley.edu
Public Health 285a --Injury Prevention and Control-Fall 2011
2 units (3 units with a paper)
Meets weekly from August 26, 2011 through December 9, 2011 2:00pm - 4:00pm; Fridays / 104 GPB
Course Aims
* Injuries as a major public health problem (size and scope of the problem, social costs of injury, financial burden to health care system)
* Methods and approaches in injury epidemiology (measuring exposure, risk assessment, models of accidents and injury)
• Location of injury (roadways, workplaces, health care facilities, athletics), and agents of injury (vehicles, machinery and technology, firearms)
• Impact of injury on society (health care costs, lost wages, etc.)
* Methods and approaches of controlling injuries (range of methods and approaches, methods for choosing optimal approaches, approaches to implementation, and evaluation)
• Policy initiatives to address injury control and prevention
Topics for Fall Semester, 2011
The general topic of injury is very diverse, including unintentional and intentional injury. This semester will begin with an overview of the field of injury. Most of the rest of the semester will focus on three injury topics:
• Occupational Injury
• Injury due to Medical Error
• Pedestrian and Bicyclist Injury
These topics, in addition to being of great importance in their own right, illustrate the role of data and information in understanding injury as well as the major approaches to injury prevention.
Course Requirements
1. Readings, attendance, and participation in class
2. Website Summary/Data Exercise
3. Class project (optional, one credit)
Brief paper on topic of choice in the area of injury:
• Brief paper on any current injury incident in style of publishable manuscript
• Power Point presentation summarizing the paper
• 20-minute presentation to the class during the last two weeks
SafeTREC faculty and researchers teach graduate courses and one course open to all students, which are informed by the disciplines of public health and engineering in ways seldom available at this level of instruction and which give students a chance to interact with people from different fields.
Spring 2011 Traffic Safety and Injury Control:
Civil Engineering C265 (Cross Listed) Public Health C285 3 Units The course is open to students of all academic backgrounds. Undergraduates are welcome. David Ragland PhD MPH School of Public Health, SafeTREC, davidr@ berkeley.edu, and Koohong Chung, PhD, PE, Caltrans Highway Operations Special Studieskoohong@berkeley.edu.
Download flyer.
Additional Courses:
Spring 2010: Transportation Safety. Course taught by SafeTREC Director Simon Washington and David Ragland, with guest instructors. A graduate-level course that introduces important concepts in travel risk and injury. The course is divided into four main focus areas: engineering management and planning aspects of safety, human factors aspects of safety, analysis methodologies, and accident reconstruction techniques. There is considerable overlap across these areas and so, many are intertwined within the lectures. Download flyer with syllabus and lecture topics for Spring 2010 Transportation Safety Course.
Spring 2009: "Planning for Traffic Safety and Injury Control" will examine principles of engineering and behavioral science relevant to preventing traffic collisions and subsequent injury. Taught by David Ragland, Ching-Yao Chan (Transportation Safety Research Program Leader, Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways), and Koohong Chung.
Civil Engineering C265 (Cross Listed) Public Health C285 3 Units TuTh 8-9:30AM 321 Haviland
Injury from motor vehicle collisions is a major cause of death and disability in the United States and is the leading cause of death and disability for ages 1-34. The course will examine principles of engineering and behavioral science relevant to preventing traffic collisions and subsequent injury. Human behavior, vehicle design, and roadway design will be considered as interacting approaches to preventing traffic crashes and injury. Safety of vulnerable road users (primarily pedestrians and bicyclists) will be covered extensively. Specific skill sets developed in the class include:
• Analysis of traffic collision and injury data;
• Identification of collision risk in a road network;
• Identifying causal factors;
• Identifying and evaluating countermeasures.
Students will also prepare and present a research paper. The class is open to students of all academic backgrounds.
Instructors: David Ragland, PhD, Institute of Transportation Studies, School of Public Health, davidr@berkeley.edu 510-642-0655
Ching-Yao Chan, PhD. Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways, cychan@path.berkeley.edu
Koohong Chung, PhD, PE, koohong@berkeley.edu
Fall 2008: "Public Health Injury Prevention and Control" explores statistical and policy analysis of public health and injury prevention. Taught by David Ragland and Glen Shor (Center of Occupational and Environmental Health) Download syllabus for Fall 2008 Public Health 285a (in Microsoft Word™).
"Pedestrian and Bicycle Transportation," (PDF of course announcement) a course under the auspices of the Department of City and Regional Planning. Pedestrian and Bicycle transportation planning links issues of mobility, access, air quality, global warming, and public health.
"Planning for Traffic Safety and Injury Control" (PDF of course announcement) integrates engineering, behavioral science, and vision science into a comprehensive approach to traffic safety.
Also, "Advances in Aging: Mobility and Transportation Safety," Spring 2001.
View previous announcements in the news archive.
