Welcome to CIRCL

The Center for Injury Research & Control (CIRCL) is an interdisciplinary academic research program involving many schools and departments at the University of Pittsburgh. The center conducts and promotes injury control research, gathers and disseminates information on injuries, provides training for health professionals, and informs public and community leaders on injury control issues.

Mission

The mission of CIRCL is to understand injuries and reduce their occurrence, severity and consequences through development of multi-disciplinary research and educational and training activities.

CIRCL News

• Dr. Anthony Fabio was quoted in an article on the front of the Post Gazette on Sunday, February 15, 2009. Trends emerge when mapping out county's murders.

• Dr. Anthony Fabio has published the following article in Injury Prevention: Cohort differences in the progression of developmental pathways: evidence for period effects on secular trends of violence in males.

• At the 2008 APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition in San Diego, CA on October 25, Dr. Anthony Fabio gave the following presentation: Enduring Influence of Neighborhood Disadvantage on the Shape of the Age-Crime Curve and Dr. Thomas Songer presented: Injuries from Falls among Veterans with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI).
• On October 25, 2008, Dr. Patrick Kochanek was one of the two opening speakers at the Annual Congress of the European Academy of Pediatrics in Nice, France.  His presentation to more than 4,000 attendees of the conference highlighted CIRCL-funded work on biomarkers and brain injury.  He discussed the potential use of these tools in both pediatric neurointensive care and child abuse detection.