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The HVIP+ Community Model: A Community Violence Prevention Program in a Southern State
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Dr. Austin Porter is a Co-Investigator on “The HVIP+ Community Model: A Community Violence Prevention Program in a Southern State” project with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Dr. Porter received his B.S. in Biology from the University of Central Arkansas in 2005. He then went on to earn his Master of Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology and Doctorate in Public Health (DrPH) with an emphasis in Public Health Leadership from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 2009 and 2016, respectively. Austin has dedicated much of his professional career to his roles as a scholar, public health practitioner, and leader.
Dr. Porter is an Assistant Professor and Program Director for the DrPH Program at the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Austin has taught Database Management for Epidemiologists, a master’s and doctoral-level course that focuses on working with SAS in the manipulation and reporting of datasets. He has also developed and is currently teaching Statistics for Healthcare Managers for the Master of Health Administration Program and Advanced Public Health Practice for the Doctor of Public Health Program.
Dr. Porter began his career in public health practice in 2010 at the Arkansas Department of Health as an injury epidemiologist. In this role, he was an integral part in the development and evaluation of the Arkansas Trauma System. His work to initiate and manage the Arkansas trauma band program led to Arkansas being one of the few states with the ability to link the statewide pre-hospital dataset to the statewide trauma registry, thus allowing epidemiologists to track patients from the prehospital setting to definitive care and discharge. This initiative was so successful that it was later adopted by other statewide programs monitoring time-sensitive conditions such as stroke.
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