Corinne Peek-Asa, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health
Office: 114 IREH
Phone: 319.335.4895
Email: corinne-peek-asa@uiowa.edu
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Corinne Peek-Asa, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Director of the CDC-funded University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center, and Director of the NIH-funded International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Training Program in Central Europe. Corinne received her PhD in Epidemiology from UCLA in 1995. She was a faculty member of the UCLA Department of Epidemiology until 2001, when she moved to the University of Iowa. Corinne’s areas of interest include road traffic safety, workplace violence, residential fire injuries, domestic violence, sexual violence, international injury prevention, and disaster preparedness. She has a methodological focus on the evaluation of injury prevention policies and programs.
Corinne has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and externally-funded research projects from NIH, CDC, the Iowa Department of Transportation, and the Iowa Department of Public Health. Corinne serves on the Internal Review Group of the CDC/National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, is the President-Elect of the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Injury Prevention, and co-chairs the Steering Committee for the National Prevent Violence Training Initiative.
Courses Taught:
- Injury Prevention and Control
- Research Methods in Disaster Studies
Current Research Interests:
- Workplace violence
- Domestic violence, Disaster epidemiology
- Childhood injuries
- Injuries in the elderly
- Epidemiologic methods