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This seminar highlights the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center’s (KIPRC) expansive role in supporting injury and opioid overdose prevention across the state. You'll hear how KIPRC's partnerships with state agencies, local health departments, and national networks fuel timely public health responses—from mapping overdose trends to deploying harm-reduction tools like FindHelpNowKY.org.
This is more than just data collection—it's connecting science to action, bridging silos, and putting knowledge in the hands of community leaders. Whether you’re a student, practitioner, or policymaker, this session offers a deeper understanding of how injury prevention becomes a collaborative, statewide mission—and how KIPRC helps to advance it.
Amber Kizewski, MA is the Operations Director of the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC). She received her Master’s in Sociology for Colorado State University and is currently a PhD candidate in Educational Evaluation and Policy at the University of Kentucky.
Amber has been at KIPRC since 2017 and has held numerous roles, including serving an evaluator and project direct on various projects focused on opioid overdose prevention and response and recovery housing. She is currently Co-Investigator of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded grant aimed at Evaluating the Kentucky Access to Recovery Program.
Overall, Amber’s interests include evaluating practices, programs, and community interventions as it relates to intentional and unintentional injuries.
Dr. Ashley Bush works at the KIPRC, a bona fide agent for the Kentucky Department for Public Health, where she serves as the Practice Core Director and a Research Program Administrator. She is the PI for a CDC-funded program that works to prevent injury, violence, and related factors through injury surveillance, to implement evidence-based and -informed interventions, and to inform policy. She works on an overdose prevention surveillance grant with public safety partners, and serves as the coordinator for a CDC school health program. Through these programs, she works with partners to address traumatic brain injury, transportation safety, adverse childhood experiences, suicide, falls, and related risk factors across the age spectrum and populations ranging from urban and rural to military-connected. Ashley is grateful for the opportunities to work with the stakeholders across various organizations and systems to improve local and state public health. She values present and future partnerships essential for effectively and efficiently minimizing the risk of injury and violence across the Commonwealth.
Dr. Peter Rock is a public health data science leader specializing in health surveillance systems, bioinformatics, and data infrastructure development. His work has helped transform Kentucky's health surveillance capabilities through innovative real-time systems. He currently serves as Co-Principal Investigator on the CDC Overdose Data to Action grant awarded to KIPRC, focusing on overdose surveillance efforts.
Dr. Jacqueline Seals, DrPH is an Assistant Professor in the Kentucky Injury Prevention Research Center (KIPRC) and Health Management and Policy. She received both her MPH and DrPH in Epidemiology from the University of Kentucky. She has been with KIPRC since 2015. She is the Principal Investigator for the CDC funded Advancing Violence Epidemiology in Real Time (KYAVERT) , a surveillance program focused on ED visits for violence related injuries, firearm-related injuries regardless of intent and mental health crisis. Additionally, she is the PI of a contract working with the Kentucky Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities (BHDID) studying the intersection between substance use disorders, suicides and intentional self-harm, and mental health to better understand the overlapping risk factors and points for interventions. In addition to these programs Jacqueline has worked with the Kentucky Violent Death Reporting System (KYVDRS) and Overdose Data to Action programs.
