When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control in June of 1992, it capped two decades of work to bring the public health perspective to the national dilemma of injury in America.

Today, CDC's Injury Center is a primary catalyst in preventing and controlling injuries by applying the steps of the public health model to this pressing, national issue. The Injury Center funds and conducts basic research to better understand the causes of injuries then applies those findings to populations most affected by implementing programs to prevent violent and unintentional injuries. The Injury Center extends its impact by working closely with state and local health departments, research institutions, other federal agencies and national, state and local organizations.

This June, NCIPC will mark a decade of progress through partnership with a series of regional conferences in Denver, Los Angeles, Boston and Baltimore. These conferences are designed to strengthen existing partnerships, to involve more organizations and individuals in the injury prevention movement, and to raise public awareness of the urgency of need for injury prevention in the United States.

The Injury Center and its partners invite you to join us to celebrate 10 years of community progress in reducing the toll of injury. We invite you to hear new findings from researchers and program specialists who work daily on injury issues. We ask you to take this opportunity to renew partnerships and establish new partnerships to further your own work in preventing injury. And we invite you to join us in building on the foundation of this past decade to create a future in which Americans will no longer number death and disability from unintentional and violent injury among the top 10 threats to health and life in the United States.