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A Proposal to Establish the Mississippi Violence Injury Prevention (VIP) Program
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Dr. Fazlay Faruqe is a Co-Investigator with the University of Mississippi Medical Center project “A Proposal to Establish the Mississippi Violence Injury Prevention (VIP) Program” and is a member of the Policy, Implementation and Economics Workgroup for the the Community Firearm Violence Prevention Network.
Dr. Faruque is a Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). He joined UMMC in 2000 as the founding Director of the GIS and Remote Sensing program. For the last thirty years, Dr. Faruque has been teaching and conducting research in the areas of social determinants and environmental health. As Principal Investigator, Dr. Faruque managed extramural grants, including projects funded by NIH and NASA. Examining the spatial components of the contributing factors to differential health outcomes is his major area of research interest. Currently, Dr. Faruque is engaged in studying Mississippi’s landscape of social determinants of health, which has resulted in significant health disparities in this state.
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