Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Guohua Li, MD, DrPH,  Columbia University, USA
Guohua Li, MD, DrPH is the Finster Professor and the founding director of the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention at Columbia University.  He received his medical degree from Beijing Medical University and his doctoral and post-doctoral training in injury epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. Dr Li is interested in population-based, injury-related, and policy-oriented studies that encompass innovative methodology and complex data systems.  He has published extensively in the field of injury epidemiology and prevention and is credited with developing the decomposition equation linking injury mortality to case fatality, incidence density and exposure prevalence, and the FIA Score for predicting fatality in aviation crashes.  He also made seminal contributions to the development of the multiphase approach to age-period-cohort modeling, a semi-parametric technique for estimating cohort effects in contingency table data. Dr Li is a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the Kenneth Rothman Epidemiology Prize and the John Paul Stapp Award from the Aerospace Medical Association.

Associate Editors

Kathleen Carlson, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University and Portland Veterans Affairs Health Care System, USA
Kathleen F. Carlson, MS, PhD is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Oregon Health & Science University-Portland State University School of Public Health, and a Core Investigator with the Health Services Research Center of Innovation at the VA Portland Health Care System. She completed her PhD in Environmental Health at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health focused on injury epidemiology and occupational injury prevention, and a postdoctoral fellowship in health services research with the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, focused on rehabilitation services for military veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Dr. Carlson’s research examines the spectrum of injury prevention and control, from the epidemiology of intentional and unintentional injuries to the rehabilitation of patient populations with TBI and other combat injuries. Her current efforts focus on firearm-related injuries, opioid and other medication-related injuries, short- and long-term functional outcomes among combat veterans with TBI, and the epidemiology of, and health services for, auditory injury among active duty and separated military service members. Dr. Carlson co-directs the VA health services research post-doctoral fellowship program at the Portland VA and teaches/advises MPH and PhD students in epidemiology at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health. She has served in a variety of leadership roles with the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) and with the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services (ICEHS) section of the American Public Health Association.

Cassandra Crifasi, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
Dr. Cassandra Crifasi is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Deputy Director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research. Her research interests focus broadly on public safety including injury epidemiology and prevention, gun violence prevention and policy, attitudes and behaviors of gun owners, and underground gun markets. Dr. Crifasi teaches courses in research and evaluation methods and serves as Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins-Baltimore Collaborative for Violence Reduction. She earned her PhD in Health Policy and Management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and an MPH in Environmental and Occupational Health from the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University.

Rebecca Ivers, MPH, PhD, University of NSW, Australia
Scientia Professor Rebecca Ivers is Head, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney, and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health. Ivers leads a global research program focusing on the prevention and management of injury. Her work has a strong focus on equity, implementation, sustainability and capacity development. She has published over 300 peer reviewed publications and supervised 20 PhD students. 



Francisco J López-Valdés, PhD, Comillas Pontifical University, Spain
Francisco Lopez-Valdes, PhD, CAISS, is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Pontifical University Comillas Engineering School ICAI (Madrid, Spain). He received his engineering degree from the University of Valladolid (Spain) and his doctoral degree from the University of Virginia (USA). After his doctoral training, Dr. Lopez-Valdes was a recipient of a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship that allowed him to return to Europe to lead the establishment of the first injury biomechanics laboratory in Spain at the University of Zaragoza. He joined the faculty of University Pontifical Comillas in 2017, where he coordinates the Master’s Program in Engineering for Mobility and Safety. His research on the prevention of injuries is strongly focused on the investigation of injury mechanisms and injury thresholds. Dr. Lopez-Valdes is a member of the International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI), where he serves as the Secretary of the Board, and he is currently the President of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM).

Tsung-Hsueh Lu, PhD, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Reidar P. Lystad, PhD, Macquarie University, Australia

Colleen Saunders, PhD, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Colleen Saunders (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She manages the Emergency Medicine research portfolio across a large number of faculty and four postgraduate programmes. She has a broad interest in research methodology education for clinicians and emergency care providers, research priority setting for low resource settings and research capacity building. She is a South African National Research Foundation rated researcher and her research interests broadly include the epidemiology of trauma, unintentional injuries and sports injuries, specifically musculoskeletal soft-tissue injuries. She has a long-standing interest in water safety and a specific research focus on drowning epidemiology and prevention in low resource settings, driven by engagement with local community stakeholders.

Svetla Slavova, PhD, University of Kentucky, USA

Gary Smith, MD, DrPH, The Ohio State University, USA
Gary A. Smith, MD, DrPH, is Professor of Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, and Epidemiology at the Ohio State University. He holds the Dimon R. McFerson Endowed Chair in Injury Research and is founder and director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Smith is board certified in the specialties of pediatrics and general preventive medicine and public health, and in the subspecialty of pediatric emergency medicine. He received his MPH and DrPH degrees from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has been a contributor to the field of injury, especially through research that informs public policy, for more than 35 years. His research focuses on prevention of unintentional and intentional injuries among children and adolescents. He is founder and president of the Child Injury Prevention Alliance, a NGO that works globally to prevent child injury.


Managing Editor

Barbara Lang, MPH, Columbia University, USA
Barbara Lang, MPH, is the administrative director of the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention at Columbia University and the Managing Editor of Injury Epidemiology. Barbara has eleven years of research program support experience in the university setting, and has provided technical and editorial support for more than thirty peer-reviewed publications. In addition, Barbara has assisted with the editorial coordination of several academic texts, including Injury Research: Theories, Methods, and Approaches (2012) and The Handbook of Veterinary Anesthesia (2006).  Barbara received her Bachelor of Science degree from The Ohio State University and her Master of Public Health degree in Health Policy and Management from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.


Editorial Board
Pius Agbenorku, MD, PhD, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Ghana
Limor Aharonson-Daniel, PhD, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Suliman Alghnam, PhD, KAIMRC, Saudi Arabia
David Bishai, MPH, PhD, MD, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Ashley Blanchard, MD, MS, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, USA
Dr. Ashley Blanchard is a pediatric emergency room physician and Assistant Professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Her research focuses on prevention of pediatric injuries and deaths within the high-risk and under-represented populations she treats in the emergency room. She has a specific interest in emergency department-based firearm-related injury prevention and the epidemiology of injuries in children with autism spectrum disorder. Her current work aims to 1) use mobile health technology to reduce adolescent access to lethal means, such as firearms, and prevent adolescent suicide and 2) describe the unique injuries that children with autism spectrum disorder sustain to provide evidence for preventive interventions.

Gregory Bledsoe, MD, MPH, MBA, TeamHealth, USA
Guilherme Borges, PhD, National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico
Stephen Bowman, PhD, MHA, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
Joanne Brady, PhD, Merck & Co. Inc, USA
Charles Branas, PhD, Columbia University, USA
Elisa Braver, PhD, Food and Drug Administration, USA
Gregory Breetzke, PhD, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Esteban Calvo, PhD, MsPH, Universidad Mayor, Chile
Shane V Caswell, PhD, George Mason University, USA
Magdalena Cerda, DrPH, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA
Hui Chen, PhD, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Li-Hui Chen, PhD, Consumer Product Safety Commission, USA
Alan Cook, MD, MS, University of Texas Health Science Center Tyler, USA
Linda Degutis, DrPH, Yale University, USA
Carolyn DiGuiseppi, MPH, PhD, MD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA
Mitchell L. Doucette, PhD, MS, Leafwell, USA
Maureen S Durkin, PhD, DrPH, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
Samuel N Forjuoh, DrPH, Texas A&M University, USA
Shannon Frattaroli, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Robyn Gershon, DrPH, New York University, USA
Andrea C Gielen, ScD, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Deborah Girasek, PhD, MPH, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, USA
David Hemenway, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Delia Hendrie, PhD, Curtin University, Australia
Linda Hill, MD, MPH, University of California San Diego, USA
Jonathan Howland, PhD, Boston University School of Medicine, USA
Guoqing Hu, PhD, Central South University, China
Haruhiko (Hal) Inada, MD, PhD, MPH, University of Tokyo, Japan
Courtney Marie Cora Jones, PhD, MPH, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
Rose Kagawa, PhD, MPH, University of California at Davis, USA
Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, PhD, MPH, University of California, Davis, United States
Katherine M Keyes, PhD, MPH, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, USA
Hannah Laqueur, PhD, MA, MPA, University of California, Davis, USA
Liping Li, PhD, Shantou University, China
Mau-Roung Lin, PhD, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Andrew E Lincoln, ScD, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA
Becky PY Loo, PhD, University of Hong Kong, China
Stephen W Marshall, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Lara McKenzie, PhD, MA, FAAHB, Nationwide Children's Hospital, USA
Thelma Mielenz, PhD, Columbia University, USA
Matthew Miller, MD, ScD, MPH, Northeastern University, USA
Stephen J Mooney, PhD, University of Washington, USA
Christopher Morrison, PhD, MPH, Columbia University, USA
Kwok Ng, PhD, University of Limerick, Ireland
Jean A Langlois Orman, MPH, ScD, US Army Institute of Surgical Research, USA
Ricardo Orozco, DSc, National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico
Veronica A. Pear, PhD, MPH, University of California Davis School of Medicine, USA
Corinne Peek-Asa, MPH, PhD, University of California San Diego, USA
Keshia Pollack, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Joyce Pressley, PhD, Columbia University, USA
Marizen Ramirez, PhD, University of California, USA
Shabbar I. Ranapurwala, PhD, MPH, BHMS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Mark Roe, PhD, Vhi, Ireland
Anbesaw W Selassie, DrPH, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Gordon Smith, MB, ChB, MPH, University of Maryland, USA
Julie Sorensen, PhD, The Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety, USA
Catherine Stayton, DrPH, Columbia University, USA
Keith Stokes, PhD, University of Bath, UK

Stephen Strotmeyer, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Dr Strotmeyer, is a Research Scientist at the University of Pittsburgh and a Trauma Epidemiologist at the Benedum Pediatric Trauma Program in the Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, the region’s only Level I Regional Resource Pediatric Trauma Center. His current research includes trauma-induced disorders of coagulation and trauma recidivism. Stephen serves on the Pediatric Trauma Society’s Research Committee, the Medical Advisory Board for the United States Muaythai Federation, and has completed fellowship training in traumatic occupational injury at The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. A former professional Muaythai fighter, he continues to develop expertise in the health and safety of combat sports athletes, and the epidemiology of injuries.

David Swedler, PhD, UMass Chan Medical School, USA
Evert Verhagen, PhD, Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands
Anna E Waller, ScD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Margaret Warner, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
Flaura Winston, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Henry Xiang, MD, MPH, PhD, MBA, The Ohio State University, USA
Ginger Yang, PhD, MPH, The Ohio State University, USA
Motao Zhu, MD, MS, PhD, The Ohio State University, USA
April M. Zeoli, PhD, MPH, University of Michigan, USA