Jon S. Vernick is the co-director of the

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at the

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, as well as the deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. In 2013, he received the public service award from the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services section of the

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Education

Vernick received his J.D.

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from

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in 1989 and his M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1994.

References

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