2022 Outstanding Staff Awards includes two CPH nominations

Did you know that Matt Bunch and Jennifer Stevens were recently nominated for the 2022 Outstanding Staff Awards at UK? Sponsored by the President's Office and UK Staff Senate, Outstanding Staff Awards recognizes staff members with exceptional professional accomplishments as well as those who were awarded in their college or department for great work throughout the year. Congrats Matt and Jennifer for all that you do!

Dr. Ashley Bush, research program administrator at KIPRC, walks us through some of Clark Griswold’s most monumental mishaps in the holiday movie classic "Christmas Vacation" with tips to keep them from happening at — and ruining — your own holiday celebrations in the future.

With a two-year grant from the UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science KL2 Career Development Program, our Dr. Meredith Duncan is studying whether social determinants of health (SDOH)—the economic, social, environmental, and psychosocial factors that influence health—paint a more accurate picture of someone’s risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) than race. 

IPH-C is launching their first live video podcast event series on YouTube called “Connect the Dots: The Making of Meaningful Metrics”, which will be an in-depth, and broadly accessible, exploration of innovative approaches for translating assessment data into meaningful metrics across the helping professions. The first live episode is launching on Tuesday, January 10th at 3pm and is hosted by Marc Lardner, Senior Policy Analyst at IPH-C.

The latest issue of KyOD2A (Kentucky Overdose Data 2 Action) Happenings, the newsletter created by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC) which shares information about drug overdose prevention research, community initiatives, data reports, and resources relevant to Kentucky, is now available.