Injury Prevention

About our work

The LRC’s Injury Prevention Team provides legal technical assistance on law and policy that impacts injury incidence and injury-related morbidity and death across the lifespan. We conduct legal and policy research, develop resources, and conduct in-person and virtual training sessions for public health professionals, researchers, advocates, and policymakers in the areas of road safety; education, training, and licensing of novice drivers; child and adolescent injury prevention, including sports and recreational injury; and interpersonal violence prevention. Our injury experts work collaboratively with the National Children’s Safety Network, Partnership for a Safer Maryland, the Brain Injury Association, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy.

Webinar Series

A New Resource for Road Safety Research and Policy: Publicly Available Datasets on State Novice Driver Licensing Laws 

The Legal Resource Center for Public Health Policy at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law held a series of three webinars to describe and demonstrate new publicly available, searchable datasets of state novice driver licensing laws.

Together comprising 92 variables the datasets categorize and describe state laws for all 50 states and the District of Columbia in the following three areas: 

• Driver Education, Training, & Testing (DETT)
• Novice Driver Licensing Laws (NDL) 

The webinars walk attendees through data contents and scope, how to find information of interest, and how to conduct queries and download raw data using LawAtlas, a publicly accessible online data platform.