Bangdiwala receives APHA injury control award

Dr. Kant Bangdiwala

The award recognizes outstanding dedication and leadership in international injury control and emergency health services efforts, as well as achievements that have significant and long-term impact on the field.

Bangdiwala received baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and joined the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s biostatistics faculty in 1981. He has participated in a wide variety of injury research and cardiovascular initiatives.

For more than two decades, he has served as co-principal investigator on the longitudinal studies coordination for Child Abuse and Neglect, with the coordinating center based at the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center (IPRC). He also has collaborated on international studies of child maltreatment (WorldSAFE) as part of the International Clinical Epidemiology Network.

“Kant has contributed to improving capacity in many countries by teaching methods courses,” said award presenter Carol Runyan, PhD, former director of the UNC IPRC, who currently is professor of epidemiology at University of Colorado-Denver. “Through this teaching, he has influenced the advancement of injury surveillance methods. I personally can attest to his superb teaching skills and ability to explain complex concepts clearly. For these talents, he is highly sought after as a consultant and dissertation committee member.”

Runyan said Bangdiwala’s work greatly contributed to addressing and understanding the problem of injuries globally, prevented injuries in many countries, and contributed to a sustainable enhancement of injury research through collaborations and capacity building. “This is an ideal time,” she said, “to recognize his long and productive career.”

UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu.