The National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center
University of Michigan, School of Public Health
The Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies
SRBI

The National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center(NCVC) : NCVC is a division of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. Since 1974 the faculty and staff of the NCVC have been devoted to achieving a better understanding of the impact of criminal victimization, disasters, and terrorism on adults, children, and their families. Their many contributions to the scientific literature have been recognized nationally and internationally. The program activities of the NCVC are focused in four major areas: scientific research, evidence-based treatment, professional education, and consultation.

Scientific Research
For over three decades, the NCVC has conducted important scientific research projects on different aspects of criminal victimization, terrorism, disasters, and child abuse. Specifically, research efforts have included an examination of the mental and physical health impact of natural disasters, terrorism, urban violence, rape, physical assault, and witnessed violence, and additional research has examined the utility of cognitive-behavioral interventions in the treatment of assault-related fear and distress. Studies have been sponsored by agencies such as the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Justice, National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, State Justice Institute, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Nursing Research, and U. S. Department of the Navy. Members of the NCVC faculty have published hundreds of scientific papers. They are regularly asked for expert consultation by other researchers, and often provide consultation to agencies and organizations that fund research on adult and youth victimization.

Evidence-Based Clinical Services
The NCVC provides specialized clinical services to adult and child victims of violent crime and their families. Clinical services also are provided to victims of other forms of civilian trauma (e.g., auto accidents, industrial accidents, house fires). The NCVC clinic serves as a resource center for the development and implementation of innovative and effective treatment programs for adult and child victims of violence. Ongoing efforts at the NCVC additionally aim to enhance accessibility to underserved populations of efficacious interventions for interpersonally victimized youth. NCVC faculty members are widely regarded as experts in the assessment and treatment of crime-related and other forms of trauma, and often are invited to provide clinical workshops that relate to treatment issues with victims of interpersonal violence.

Professional Education
Through its internal education programs, the NCVC provides clinical and research training to clinical psychology pre-doctoral interns, psychiatry residents, social work interns, and postdoctoral fellows at MUSC. The NCVC also frequently conducts external training courses for professionals in research and treatment related to criminal victimization, disasters, terrorism, and child abuse. NCVC faculty members also provide training to other professionals at major professional conferences both nationally and internationally.

Public Policy Consultation
NCVC faculty members frequently are called upon to share their research findings and clinical expertise with legislators, public policy-makers, and program administrators at the federal, state and local levels. The NCVC continues to assist in the development of sound public policies for victimized adults and youth that are based on empirically derived knowledge.
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University of Michigan, School of Public Health (UMSPH): University of Michigan School of Public Health is at the forefront of national and international public health developments and is among the nation's top schools of public health. Current research in the school directly addresses the goals outlined in the Institute of Medicine's "Healthy People 2010," a call to action on such things as promoting health for all through a healthy environment. The broad objectives of the UMSPH are to provide an understanding of the health aspects of human beings, their interaction with the biological, physical, and social environment, and the application of this knowledge to community health problems.

The UMSPH is especially concerned with poor, often minority populations, who suffer disproportionately from illness and disability. Among health science schools, the School is unique in placing a strong emphasis on disease prevention and health promotion, rather than on the treatment, where ideas and people from the biological, physical, social, and managerial sciences meet. The school employs integrated approaches to solving public health problems, and teachers and promotes the ethical practice of public health.

UMSPH attracts students from across the nation and from around the world; graduates serve in influencing teaching, research, public service, administration, industrial, and policy positions throughout the US and abroad.
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The Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies (CUES): CUES is a division of the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM). NYAM is dedicated to enhancing the health of the public through research, education, policy analysis and advocacy, with a particular focus on disadvantaged urban populations. The Academy’s urban health agenda focuses on pressing health issues including health disparities, access to care, asthma, HIV/AIDS, geriatric social work, substance abuse, health policy, urban disaster, mental health, health education training for public school teachers, handgun safety and improving community partnerships' ability to solve complex health problems.

CUES is a research consortium established by The New York Academy of Medicine in partnership with the New York City Department of Health. It was established to conduct collaborative, multi-disciplinary, population-based research, with a special focus on low-income, disadvantaged populations. Community residents and organizations help to identify vital research needs. Through an array of interventions and studies, CUES is working to bring about a better understanding of diseases and other threats to health concentrated in urban areas.

CUES is committed to research to improve health and create new understandings of factors that influence the well-being of urban populations. CUES works to promote and advance cooperative efforts to understand the social, environmental, and biological influences on health.

Today, CUES conducts a wide range of studies geared at disease prevention and educating communities on health risks. These studies demonstrate new and innovative approaches to research as they address many of the health problems present in today’s society. Current studies address HIV and other infectious diseases, substance abuse, asthma, the role of social determinants of health, and acute cardiac arrest.
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SRBI: SRBI is a full-service global strategy and research organization specializing in public policy and opinion surveys, banking and finance, telecommunications, media, energy, transportation, insurance and health care. Clients include major financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies, federal, state and local governments, foundations and universities. SRBI has an established track record of providing high quality, timely and cost effective research and analysis. In addition to its headquarters in New York City, SRBI has offices in Washington D.C., Florida, New Jersey and Tennessee.

The firm was founded in 1981 with the explicit purpose of combining high quality analytic capabilities with in-house control of research implementation to ensure high quality, timely and actionable research for strategy and decision-making in rapidly changing environments.
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