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Corinne Peek-Asa Curriculum Vitae Professional contact information: Private contact information: Associate Dean for Research 560 Auburn Hills Drive College of Public Health Coralville, IA 52241 University of Iowa (319) 440-0126 143 N. Riverside Drive; S143 CPHB [email protected] Iowa City, IA 52242 (319) 335-4895 [email protected] EDUCATION BA Biochemistry, University of New Mexico, 1989, with honors MPH Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991 PhD Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995 LEADERSHIP TRAINING 2012 Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM), Drexel University 2017 Academic Leadership Program (ALP), Big Ten Academic Alliance PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2011 - Associate Dean for Research, College of Public Health, University of Iowa 2006 - Director, Injury Prevention Research Center, University of Iowa 2004- Professor, Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Iowa 2001 – 2004 Associate Professor, Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Iowa 1995 – 2001 Adjunct Assistant Professor to Associate Professor (Research), Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles 1995 – 2001 Research Coordinator to Associate Director, including one year as Interim Director, Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center, UCLA AWARDS 1994 National Safety Council Student Research Award winner 1995 Hanson Award –Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Service to the University and the Community, University of California, Los Angeles 1999 Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society 2006 Distinguished Faculty Award, College of Public Health, University of Iowa 1 2008 Excellence in Science Award, American Public Health Association, Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section 2009 Public Health Hero, ResearchAmerica! 2010 Distinguished Professor, University of Cincinnati 2011 Outstanding Service Award, College of Public Health, University of Iowa 2011 President’s Award for Outstanding Achievement, Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) 2012 Women of Influence, Iowa Corridor Business Journal 2014 Faculty Research Award, College of Public Health, University of Iowa 2017 May Brodbeck Faculty Award for Excellence, University of Iowa 2017 Faculty Communicating Science Award, University of Iowa, Office of the Vice President for Research 2019 Distinguished Faculty Award, University of Iowa VISITING PROFESSOR APPOINTMENTS 2007 Stampar School of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia 2008 – 2020 University of Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2009 University of Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia 2011 Jinan University, Guangzhou, China 2011 Shantou University, Shantou, China 2015 University of the Gambia, Banjul, The Gambia 2016 - 2021 Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia ELECTED AND APPOINTED POSITIONS 2001 – 2009 Board of Advisors, Iowa Center for Agricultural Safety and Health 2002 – 2004 Section Council, Injury Control and Emergency Health Services, APHA 2005 – 2007 Board of Directors, Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research 2008 President, Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research 2010 – 2015 Chair, Council on Professional Education, University of Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia 2012- Board of Advisors, Iowa State Hygienic Laboratory 2013 - Executive Advisory Committee, University of Iowa Public Policy Center 2013 – 2016 Board of Scientific Counselors, CDC/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health 2014 – Member, Transportation Research Board, License and Education Committee (ANB30) 2 2016 - Board of External Advisors, Healthier Workforce Center for the Midwest 2016 - Executive Advisory Board, Chair, Iowa Institute for Public Health Research and Policy 2018 - Trauma Informed Leadership Team, State of Iowa (charged with a state plan for implementing trauma informed care and resilience initiatives) 2018 - Member, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Forum on Global Violence Prevention TEACHING Courses Taught Years Taught Course Student profile Institution 1995 – 2001 Injury and Violence Graduate Students UCLA Prevention 1998 – 2001 Epidemiology Graduate and Professional Executive MPH Students program, UCLA 1999 – 2001 Epidemiology of Natural Graduate students UCLA Disasters 2001 - Injury and Violence Undergraduate and University of Iowa Prevention Graduate Students 2003 – 2006 Injury Epidemiology Graduate and Professional Summer Institute, Students University of Michigan 2004 – 2010 Research Methods in Undergraduate and University of Iowa Disaster Studies Graduate Students 2015 - Global Road Traffic Safety Undergraduate and University of Iowa Graduate Students 2015 Art Against Bullying: MPH Undergraduate and University of Iowa Service Learning class Graduate Students 2017- Make a Difference: Public Undergraduate Students University of Iowa Health Policy and Advocacy Advising and Mentoring • Advised 37 MPH and Master’s Students • Advised 28 PhD Students • Mentored 18 Junior Faculty • Mentored 6 K Award Faculty Training in Teaching and Education 2008 Faculty Teaching Structures Workshop (Certificate focused on in-person, distance, and integrated teaching from the University of Iowa Center on Teaching) 3 2014 Student-inquiry teaching and flipped classroom training (Certification from the UI Center on Teaching that allows teaching in technology-enabled classrooms) 2017 Digital Storytelling in the classroom (UI Center on Teaching seminar associated with a Carnegie-Mellon grant for innovative, interdisciplinary teaching) 2018 4CAST: Campus Academic Strategies and Technology (training focused on integrating technology into the classroom from the UI Center on Teaching) CONTRACTS AND GRANTS Currently Active as Principal Investigator Annual Years Title Source and Award Number Award CDC/National Center for Injury University of Iowa Injury 2006 – 2026 Prevention and Control R49 $850,000 Prevention Research Center CE002108 Behavioral and Medical Assessment of Department of Iowa Department of Transportation 2012 - $78,000/year Transportation Motor Vehicle (IDIQ) Crash Data Great Plains Center for Agricultural SaferTrek: Improving Rural Safety and Health, Center Project. 2016 – 2021 Road Safety for Farm CDC/National Institute for $275,500 Equipment Occupational Safety and Health U54 OH007548 iCREATE: Increasing Capacity 2017 – 2021 NIH/Fogarty Center D43 TW007261 $257,999 in Research in Eastern Europe INITIATE: International NIH/National Institute of Neurological Collaboration to Increase 2017 – 2021 Disorders and Stroke R21 $125,000 Traumatic Brain Injury NS098850 Research in Europe Completed as Principal Investigator (active within the last ten years) Annual Years Title Source and Number Award Heartland Center for Occupational Occupational Injury Prevention 2000 – 2013 Health (ERC); CDC/NIOSH $133,923 Training Program T42OH008491 A Randomized Clinical Trial to CDC/National Center for Injury 2002 – 2007 Evaluate Smoke Alarm $123,120 Prevention and Control CE002108 Technology in Rural Homes 4 Evaluation of the California CDC/National Institute for 2004 – 2007 Hospital Security Act to Reduce Occupational Safety and Health R01 $402,185 Violence in Healthcare Facilities OH007934 CDC/National Center for Injury Parent-Based Intervention to 2006 – 2010 Prevention and Control R49 $256,500 Increase Safe Teen Driving CE000947-04 International Collaborative NIH/Fogarty Center 2005 - 2016 Trauma Research Training $180,636 Program 5D43TW007261 Evaluation of the Iowa Rape Iowa Department of Public Health 2008 – 2017 $12,960 Prevention Education Program 5888RP02 NIH/National Institute for Child and A Randomized Controlled Trial 2010 – 2015 Human Development R01 $287,040 to Improve Teen Driving HD065095 Evaluation of Policies and CDC/National Institute for 2010 – 2015 Procedures to Reduce Worker- Occupational Safety and Health $185,688 On-Worker Violence R21-OH009492 Agricultural Safety and Health, Agricultural Injury Surveillance Center Project. CDC/National 2012-2017 $93,680 Program Institute for Occupational Safety and Health U54 OH007548 Traffic Safety Culture: Iowa Department of Transportation 2012 – 2013 Integrating Public Health and $33,768 TS1301 Human Factors Evaluation of the Iowa Enhanced Medical Referral and Iowa Department of Transportation 2016-2017 $24,989 Evaluation Management DTBH2212Hoo402L System Currently active as Co-Investigator Annual Years Title Source and Number Amount CDC/National Institute of Understanding Workplace Occupational Safety and Health 2015 - 2021 Violence Among Young Workers $400,000 R01 OH010928 (K. Rauscher in the US and C. Casteel, PIs) Optimizing Configurations of NIH/National Institute of Alcohol Roadside Sobriety Testing 2018 - 2021 Abuse and Alcoholism (C. $206,763 Checkpoints to Reduce Morrison, PI). Alcohol-Involved Crashes 5 Intervention to Improve Driving NIH/National Institute of Child 2019 – 2024 Practices Among High-Risk Teen and Human Development (G. $576,324 Drivers Yang, PI; C. Peek-Asa, Site PI) A Hybrid Effectiveness- CDC/National Center for Injury 2020 – 2023 Implementation Trial to Improve Prevention and Control (G. $250,000 Safe Driving Among Teen Drivers Yang, PI: C. Pek-Asa, Site PI) with a Traffic Violation Completed as Co-Investigator (active within the last ten years) Annual Years Title Source and Number Award CDC/National Institute of Violence Against Home Health 2006 – 2010 Occupational Safety and Health $285,000 and Hospice Workers R01 OH010928 (C. Casteel, PI) NIH/National Institute for Child Intimate
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