Injury Control and Emergency Health Services

Section Focus

The Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section works to advance injury, violence, and overdose-prevention research, training, advocacy, policy, and programming. Section members also have expertise in emergency health services, disaster preparedness, and emergency management, with a focus on responding to injuries. We are invested in training and supporting the next generation of researchers, advocates, and practitioners in our field.

Learn more about injury and violence prevention.

Read the American Journal of Public Health’s “Core Competencies for Injury and Violence Prevention.”

Our Members

We embrace all professionals and trainees interested in unintentional injury, violence, emergency health services, and emergency/disaster preparedness and response. Professional members from the US and throughout the world bring a global perspective to Section work.

Our membership reflects the diversity of the field:

Epidemiologists, educators, and public policymakers
Specialists in emergency medicine, acute care, rehabilitation, and disaster preparedness
Injury control practitioners in state and local health departments
Researchers and academicians
Students, fellows, and other trainees
Direct service providers
Biomechanical engineers, administrators, and attorneys

Our Work

We work to achieve our mission through the following priorities:

Educate policymakers on the impact of injuries, violence, overdose, and injury-related health disparities, and the importance of disaster preparedness and emergency health services/emergency management.
Promote state-of-the-science coding of injury causes across medical and death investigation systems.
Encourage federal, state, and local funding that is commensurate with the societal burden of injury, violence, and overdose.
Support policies, programs, and agencies whose goals include reducing disparities in injury, violence, and overdose.
Promote access to comprehensive services for the prevention and treatment of injury, violence, and overdose prevention across the lifespan.

Member Benefits

As a member of our Section, you can help grow our legacy in public health practice. We offer many opportunities to get involved, such as joining Section leadership, collaborating with other organizations and partners, influencing APHA policies and priorities, reviewing abstracts, and presenting your research at the APHA Annual Meeting.

Join Us!

Your participation is vital to our continued success. Become an active member of the Section when you join APHA. If you are already an APHA member, you can join as your second Section for no additional cost by updating your member profile. 

Attend Events

Check out the APHA calendar for upcoming Section events and browse our sessions at the 2024 APHA Annual Meeting and Expo.

Visit on APHA LEAD

Members can visit us on APHA LEAD to learn about upcoming events, join in discussions with other Section members, and access our Section’s resource library.