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Degrees:
Ph.D., West Virginia Univ.
M.P.H., West Virginia Univ.
B.A., West Virginia Univ.
Amy A. Hunter is an injury epidemiologist and research scientist at the Injury Prevention Center at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. She serves as the principal investigator of the Connecticut Injury Surveillance System (CISS), and is responsible for the management, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of large data (emergency department discharges, hospitalizations, crash data repository, death certificates). Dr. Hunter also holds the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in the departments of Pediatrics, and Community Medicine and Health Care, where she co-teaches a course in Injury and Violence Prevention. Dr. Hunter’s primary research is focused on analyzing factors impacting the risk of incident and recurrent child maltreatment. Dr. Hunter serves as the Secretary for the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services section of the American Public Health Association, and recently received joint funding from the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to evaluate perpetrators of fatal child maltreatment using the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS).
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Epidemiology
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Research methodology
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Injury and Violence Prevention
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Child Abuse and Neglect
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Opioid Overdose
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Child maltreatment surveillance in the clinical setting
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The epidemiology of opioid overdose, and the feasibility of prevention methods using opioid antagonists
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The relationship between child welfare policy and recurrent child maltreatment
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Hunter, A.A., & Bernstein, B. (2019). Identification of child maltreatment-related emergency department visits in Connecticut, 2011-2014. Clinical Pediatrics, 58(9), 970-976.
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Hunter, A.A., DiVietro, S., Schwab-Reese, L., & Riffon, M. (2019) An epidemiologic examination of perpetrators of fatal child maltreatment using the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), 2011-2015, Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
- Bentivegna, K., Durante, A., Livingston, N., & Hunter, A.A. (2019) Child Sexual Abuse identified in Emergency Departments Using ICD-9-CM, 2011-2014. Journal of Emergency Medicine, 56(6), 719-726.
- Rivera Jr., A., Hunter, A. A. (2019) Emergency department visits involving opioids in Connecticut, 2011-2015, Journal of Substance Use. doi.org/10.1080/14659891.2019.1609107
- Clinton, H., Hunter, A.A., Logan, S., Lapidus, G. (2019) "Evaluating opioid overdose in Connecticut using the National Violent Death Reporting System, 2016." Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 194, 71-376.
- Zullig, K. J., Collins, R., Ghani,N., Hunter, A.A., Patton, J.M., Huebner, E.S., Zhang, J. "Preliminary development of a revised version of the school climate measure." Psychological Assessment (2015): 1072-81.
- Valois, R.F., Zullig, K.J.,, and Hunter, A.A.. "Association Between Adolescent Suicide Ideation, Suicide Attempts and Emotional Self-Efficacy." Journal of Child and Family Studies (2013): 1-12.
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- National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) New Investigator Research Award, 2019.
- National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) New Investigator Research Award, 2018.
- Outstanding Student Research Award, WVU Injury Control Research Center, Morgantown, WV, 2017.
- National Data Archives on Child Abuse and Neglect Summer Research Institute, Ithaca, NY, 2016.
- FLEFF Diversity Scholar, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 2016.
- STEM Mountains of Excellence Scholarship, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 2015-2016.
- STEM Mountains of Excellence Scholarship, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 2014-2015.
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