Dr. Carolyn Cumpsty Fowler, a nurse epidemiologist and core faculty member of the Center for Injury Research and Policy, has conducted research into traumatic brain injury in children; child pedestrian injury; psycho-social outcomes from bicycle-related head injury in children; recreational injury; penetrating eye injury; and outcomes from maxillo-facial injury. Currently she is engaged in design and evaluation of community efforts to reduce sleep environment related death in infants.

Her main interest, however, is public health workforce development and translation of theory into practice. Specifically, this involves application of theory in the design, implementation, and evaluation of public health programs at the local level, as well as the development of community capacity to address injury. Dr. Fowler is a core faculty of the Mid Atlantic Public Health Training Center (at JHBSPH), and is involved in local, national and international training initiatives, including the National Injury and Violence Training Initiative; she also serves as Professional Development Chair for STIPDA (the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association).

Dr. Fowler, who serves as Faculty Director for the Johns Hopkins Summer Institute "Principles and Practice of Injury Prevention", is an active injury prevention practitioner and licensed Child Passenger Safety Technician and directs an injury prevention program in a local health department. She serves on the National Advisory Committee for Child Death Review, the Maryland Injury Prevention Partnership Advisory Board, and chairs the Baltimore County Child Death Review Team. Dr. Fowler, former chairperson of the Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control at CDC, now serves as Chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at CDC.

Injury Prevention; Public Health Training; Workforce Development; Community Programs; Capacity; Evaluation; Child Death Review; Child Passenger Safety; Local Health Department; Infant Death; Nursing

NURSING AWARDS

Captain Hare Medal, 1980

Groote Schuur Hospital Gold Medal, 1980.

Cape Province Bursary, 1981

South African Nursing Council Gold Medal, 1981

Anna M. Latsky Award of the South African Nursing Council, 1981 - awarded to the graduating student who placed first in the country in final professional (board) examinations for General Nursing & Midwifery or General Nursing & Psychiatry.

OTHER AWARDS (selected)

The South African Road Traffic Safety Award, 1990

- awarded by the Department of Transportation and the National Road Safety Council, South Africa, for "excellent services and contributions to Road Traffic Safety".

The Bronte-Stewart Doctoral Research Prize, 1992, University of Cape Town.

Inducted to the Delta Omega National Public Health Honors Society (Alpha Chapter), May 1996

The Ellen R Schmidt Award - awarded by the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association, 2006

Fowler CJ. Injury Prevention (Chapter 6). In: Trauma Nursing: From Resuscitation Through Rehabilitation: Fourth Edition. McQuillan KA, Makic MBF, and Whalen, E (eds). W.B. Saunders Company; 2009.

Mackenzie EJ, Fowler CJ. Epidemiology of Injury. In: Trauma: Sixth Edition. Feliciano, Mattox, and Moore (eds). New York, NY: McGraw Hill; 2008.

Mallonee S, Fowler CJ, Istre GR. Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice:

A Continuing Challenge. Injury Prevention 12: 357-359, 2006.

Mackenzie EJ, Fowler CJ. Epidemiology of Injury. In: Trauma: Fifth Edition. Mattox, Feliciano and Moore (eds). Stanford, CT: Appleton and Lange; 2003.

Dugan J, Fowler CJ, Bolton PA. Assessing the opportunity for sexual violence against women and children in refugee camps. Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, August 2000, http://www.jha.ac/articles.htm

Mackenzie EJ, Fowler CJ. Epidemiology of Injury. In: Trauma: Fourth Edition. Mattox, Feliciano and Moore (eds). Stanford, CT: Appleton and Lange; 1999.

Dannenberg AL, Fowler CJ. Evaluation of interventions to prevent injuries: an overview. Injury Prevention 4:141-147, 1998.

Li G, Baker SP, DiScala C, Fowler CJ, Ling J, Kelen GD. Factors associated with the intent of firearm-related injuries in pediatric trauma patients. Arch.of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 150 (Nov): 1160-1165, 1996.

Li G, Baker SP, Fowler CJ, Carla DiScala. Factors related to the presence of head injury in bicycle-related pediatric trauma patients. The Journal of Trauma 38 (6):871-875, 1995.

Baker SP, Fowler CJ, Li G, Warner M, Dannenberg A. Head injuries in informal recreation. American Journal of Public Health 84:649-652, 1994.

Dannenberg AL, Parver LM, Fowler, C.J. Penetrating eye injuries related to assault: The National Eye Trauma System Registry. Arch Ophthalmol 110:849-852, Jun 1992.

Parver LM, Dannenberg AL, Blacklow B, Fowler CJ, Brechner RJ, Tielsch JM. The National Eye Trauma System Registry: Causes and characteristics of 2,939 penetrating eye injuries. Public Health Reports 108 (5): 625-632, 1992.