Jess Kraus Award

In honor of Dr Jess F Kraus, the Jess Kraus Award is given each year to the author(s) of the best paper published in Injury Epidemiology, selected by the Editorial Board according to novelty, simplicity, clarity, and potential impact on population health. The winner receives a commemorative plaque and is invited by the Editorial Office to present a special seminar at Columbia University.

Dr Kraus is Professor Emeritus, Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is an MPH graduate from the University of California, Berkeley and earned his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1967. Following two years with the Public Health Service Division of Accident Prevention he joined the faculty of the University of California, first on the Davis, California campus for 12 years then the UCLA campus for 27 years.

His research encompassed all areas of human injury including suicide, homicide, and unintentional injury. He has published over 250 articles on injury. The last 20 years of his career were focused on trauma epidemiology, especially brain injury. He developed and then secured funding for one of the 10 US Centers of Excellence in Injury Prevention with the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center which he directed until his retirement. He is currently a consultant with the Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California.

2023 recipient

Views of democracy and society and support for political violence in the USA: findings from a nationally representative survey
Garen J. Wintemute, Sonia L. Robinson, Andrew Crawford, Daniel Tancredi, Julia P. Schleimer, Elizabeth A. Tomsich, Paul M. Reeping, Aaron B. Shev & Veronica A. Pear
Injury Epidemiology 2023 10:45

Associated blog to come soon.