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Andrés
Villaveces Research
Assistant Professor |
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Email: avillav@unc.edu Phone: 919-966-6625 Fax: 919-966-0466 UNC
- Injury Prevention Research Center |
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Summary of Research Interests Injury prevention and control, research methods,
injury prevention and the built environment, international health, history of
injury prevention and control. |
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Educational Background MD, Escuela Colombiana de Medicina, Bogotá, Colombia Medicine,
1991
International
Health, 1996
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Languages Fluent in Spanish, English, French Good knowledge of Portuguese |
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Professional Memberships American
College of Epidemiology (ACE) American
Public Health Association (APHA) International
Society for Violence and Injury Prevention (ISVIP) Society
for Epidemiologic Research (SER) Society
for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) International
Council on Alcohol, Drugs, and Traffic Safety (ICADTS) Editorial Board member International
Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion |
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Other
positions 1998-present,
Research Associate Injury
Epidemiology Instituto Cisalva, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia Previous
Positions 2004-2006,
Scientific Chief of Clinics Unit
of Quality of Care,
Injury
Epidemiology Assessment, 2001-2003,
Medical Officer Department
of Injuries and Violence Prevention, World
Health Organization, Harborview
Injury Prevention and
Community Medicine, Escuela Colombiana de Medicina,
Bogotá, Colombia 1991-1992,
Physician Cerro Norte Health Clinic, Bogotá, Colombia |
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Publications Villaveces
A, Stucky BD, Runyan CW, Moore KS, Berlin SP. The development of an
instrument for evaluating core competencies in violence and injury
prevention. J Public Health Manag
Pract. 2009 (In press) Samuel JC, Akinkuotu A, Villaveces A, Charles AG, Lee CN, Hoffman IF, Miller WC, Baloyi P, Hoffman M, Brown LB, Muyco AP. Epidemiology of injuries at a tertiary care center in Malawi. World J Surg 2009 Sep;33(9):1836-41. Villaveces
A, DeRoo LA. Child delinquency and the prophylaxis of crime: a view from the
early twentieth century Latin America. Pan Am J Pub Health.
2008;24(6):449-454. Cruz TH, Marshall SW, Bowling JM, Villaveces A. The Validity of a Proxy
acculturation Scale among U.S. Hispanics. Hispan
J Behav Sci. 2008;30(4):425-446. Bangdiwala
SI, Runyan CW,
Villaveces A, Stephens-Stidham S. Improving Infrastructure for Injury
Control: A Call for Policy Action. Inj
Prev. 2008 Aug;14(4):272-273 Briceño-León R, Villaveces A, Concha-Eastman A. Understanding the
unequal distribution of homicide in Latin America. Int J Epidemiol. 2008;37(4):751–757 Hugonnet
S, Villaveces A, Pittet D. Nurse Staffing Level and Nosocomial Infections:
Empirical Evaluation of the Case Crossover and Case-Time-Control Designs. Am
J Epidemiol. 2007 Jun;165(11):1321-7. Epub 2007 Mar 30. Cléopas A, Villaveces A, Charvet A, Kolly V, Bovier P, Perneger,
TV. Patient assessments of a hypothetical medical error: effects of health
outcome, disclosure, and staff responsiveness. Qual Saf Health Care.
2006 Apr;15:136-41. Villaveces A, Kammeyer JA,
Bencevic H. Injury
prevention education in medical schools: An international survey of medical
students. Inj Prev. 2005 Dec;11(6):343-7. Grossman DC, Mueller BA, Riedy
C, Dowd MD, Villaveces A, Prodzinski J, Nakagawara J, Howard J, Thiersch, N,
Harruff R. Gun
storage practices and risk of youth suicide and unintentional firearm
injuries. JAMA. 2005 Feb 9;293(6):707-14. Butchart A, Villaveces A.
Commentary: Violence against women and the risk of infant and child
mortality. Bull World Health Organ. 2003;81(1):17-18. Villaveces A, Cummings P,
Koepsell TD, Rivara FP, Lumley T, Moffat J. Association of Alcohol-related
Laws with Deaths due to Motor Vehicle and Motorcycle Crashes in the United
States, 1980-1997. Am J Epidemiol. 2003 Jan 15;157(2):131-40. Setia S, Villaveces A, Dhillon
P, Mueller B. Neonatal jaundice in Asian, white, and mixed-race infants. Arch
Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2002 Mar;156(3):276-9. Villaveces A, Cummings P,
Espitia VE, Koepsell TD, McKnight B, Kellermann AL. Effect of a ban on
carrying firearms on homicide rates in 2 Colombian cities. JAMA 2000;283(9):1205-9. Gentilello
LM, Rivara FP, Donovan DM, Villaveces A, Daranciang E, Dunn CW, Ries RR. Alcohol problems in women admitted to a level I
trauma center: a gender-based comparison. J Trauma. 2000;48:108-14. Gentilello LM, Rivara FP, Donovan
DM, Jurkovich GJ, Daranciang E, Dunn CW, Villaveces A, Copass M, Ries RR.
Alcohol interventions in a trauma center as a means of reducing the risk of
injury recurrence. Ann Surg. 1999;230:473-80; discussion 480-3. Gentilello LM, Villaveces A,
Ries RR, et al. Detection of acute alcohol
intoxication and chronic alcohol dependence by trauma center staff. J
Trauma. 1999;47:1131-5; discussion 1135-9. WHO/PAHO/UN publications Villaveces A. Advocating for safe and healthy public
transportation. Increasing health participation within a multisectoral
framework. Pan American Health Organization, Washington DC, 2009 (In press). Co-author: Burns
Chapter. In: World report on child injury prevention. World Health
Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Publication forthcoming, 2008. Villaveces,
A. The impact of firearms on health. In: Regional Forum for the Exchange of
Experiences in the Prevention and Control of Armed Violence. San Salvador:
United Nations Development Program, 2006. Training,
Educating, Advancing Collaboration in Health on Violence and Injury
Prevention (TEACH-VIP) Curriculum and training manuals. Butchart A, Phinney A, Check P,
Villaveces A. Preventing violence: a guide to implementing the
recommendations of the World report on violence and health. Racioppi F, Eriksson L,
Tingvall C, Villaveces A. Preventing road traffic injury: a public health
perspective for Sminkey L, Butchart A,
Villaveces A, McGee KS, Lanvers P, Depin E. Guide to United Nations resources
and activities for the prevention of interpersonal violence. Sminkey L, Butchart A,
Villaveces A, Cerdá M. Resources section. In: Krug EG, et. al.,
Eds.World report on violence and health. Villaveces A, Krug E, Butchart
RA, Sharma G, Small Arms and Global Health. World Health Organization: Concha-Eastman A, Villaveces A. Guidelines for the
epidemiological surveillance on violence and injuries. (HCP/HCN/01.01) Program on Non-Communicable Diseases,
Division of Disease Prevention and Control. Pan American Health Organization
World Health Organization: Other
Publications Hayes B, Yi H, Villaveces A. Information
Visualization Services in a Library? A Public Health Case Study. Bulletin of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology. June/July
2009;35(5):13-18 Villaveces
A. Violencia y Salud. Revista Javeriana, Ene-Feb, 2009. Bogotá,
Colombia. Villaveces
A. La prevención en las urbes colombianas. Newspaper
editorial article published on June 9, 2008. Mendoza Online Newspaper,
Mendoza, Argentina. Available at: http://www.mdzol.com/mdz/nota/51685-La-prevención-en-las-urbes-colombianas/ Villaveces A. A Comparative
Statistical note on homicide rates in Colombia In: Charles Bergquist,
Ricardo Peñaranda, and Gonzalo Sánchez G. Eds. Violence in Other activities Photography:
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