Dear Colleague:

We are pleased to announce that VincentWeb is now live and on-line!

VincentWeb (short for, Violence and INjury Control through Education,
Networking and Training on the world wide Web) is a free distance learning
course that offers an introduction to injury control and violence
prevention. Continuing education units are available from the UNC School of
Public Health and the Society for Public Health Education for a modest fee.

The course features materials presented during the June 1997
videoconference, "Getting Started in Injury Control and Violence
Prevention," in a web-based format that expands upon and supplements the
televised program. Contributors include Sue Mallonee, Mark Rosenberg, Carol
Runyan, Steve Teret, Janice Yuwiler, Jackie Moore, and Bob Parker.

This course is intended to help local-level practitioners begin the process
of developing an injury prevention efforts. Though it is geared primarily
to newcomers to the field, there are many elements that would be useful to
people with injury control experience.

Visit VincentWeb at: http://www.sph.unc.edu/vincentweb

Thank you,

Jay M. Bernhardt, MPH
Project Director


VINCENTweb is a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
~ Injury Prevention Research Center
~ Health Communications Research Lab
~ Center for Distance Learning and Health Communication
~ School of Public Health

With Support from:
~ National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC
~ UNC Chancellor's Task Force on Instructional Technology

In Cooperation with:
~ Association of Schools of Public Health

Co-sponsored by:
~ Colorado State University and University of Colorado Injury Control
Research Center
~ Harvard University Injury Control Center
~ Johns Hopkins University Center for Injury Research and Policy
~ San Francisco General Hospital Trauma Foundation
~ UCLA Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center
~ University of Alabama at Birmingham Injury Control Research Center
~ University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center
~ University of Pittsburgh Center for Injury Research and Control
~ University of Washington Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center