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The Violence & Injury Prevention Research Center (VIPR), a CDC-funded Injury Control Research Center, is a worldwide leader in violence and injury prevention through research, outreach, training, and education. Our mission is to eliminate the burden of violence and injury by promoting health equity and increasing the number of researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and community agencies who detect, attend to, and support the development and implementation of effective prevention and intervention programs. VIPR is unique in our initial focus on intentional injuries, centering of health equity, focus on the shared risk and protective factors across the social ecology, integrating of research, education, and outreach within a community-based participatory model, and emphasis on implementation science.