Call for papers: Injury control and research in China Guest Editors: Professor Rebecca Ivers, The George Institute for Global Health, Australia – rivers@georgeinstitute.org.au Professor Guoqing Hu, Central South University, China – huguoqing009@gmail.com Professor Henry Xiang, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, USA – Xiang.30@osu.edu Following rapid economic development, China has made significant progress in […]
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Kathrin Steffen | People in Injury Prevention
[Sheree Bekker] In the lead up to the 13th Australasian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference, I invited keynote speaker Dr Kathrin Steffen to answer a few questions for our blog. Kathrin Steffen is a senior researcher from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center. Kathrin also serves as a research assistant at the Department of Medical […]
Andrea Gielen | People in injury prevention
[Sheree Bekker] In the lead up to the 13th Australasian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference, I invited keynote speaker Professor Andrea Gielen to answer a few questions for our blog. Andrea C. Gielen, ScD, ScM is Professor and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School […]
Steve Marshall | People in injury prevention
[Sheree Bekker] In the lead up to the 13th Australasian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference, I have invited keynote speaker Professor Steve Marshall to answer a few questions for our blog. Steve Marshall, PhD, is an injury epidemiologist. He is the Director of the University of North Carolina (UNC) Injury Prevention Research Center. He is […]
Happy International Women’s Day 2017!
Today is International Women’s Day 2017, and while each and every one of us has our own experiences relating to this year’s theme, I thought I would share with you my own recent reflections on how I have been Bold for Change. I was honoured to share my experiences at the Graduate Women Queensland Sunshine […]
Take Action for Injury Prevention 2017
In his closing remarks to the 2016 World Safety conference, Professor Adnan Hyder encouraged delegates to “take action.” These words also weave through the Tampere Declaration which encourages a global commitment for stronger injury and violence prevention by integrating injury and violence prevention into other health and safety advocacy platforms. The Australian Injury Prevention Network […]
Pondering the peanutabout…..
I read the StreetsBlogUSA post Study: Diagonal Intersections are Especially Dangerous for Cyclists today with great interest, for a number of reasons that I thought I would share with you. Firstly, there is no doubt that cyclists are a vulnerable road user group, and that particular segments of road are more problematic for cyclists. The research cited […]
Meet Graham and Almost Impossible Cancer Spaghetti: The intersection between injury prevention and the arts
“The artist is distinguished from all other responsible actors in society — the politicians, legislators, educators, and scientists — by the fact that he is his own test tube, his own laboratory, working according to very rigorous rules, however unstated these may be, and cannot allow any consideration to supersede his responsibility to reveal all […]
Safe Travels – or Tampere and back again (and everything in between)
[SB] Our guest blogger is Russ Milner – reporting on his experiences at the recent Safety conference (follow him on Twitter @RussMilner) [RM] I was fortunate enough to win the inaugural Australian Injury Prevention Network (AIPN) Travel Subsidy to support my attendance at Safety 2016, the 12th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion in […]
The Lancet Series on Urban Design, Transport and Health: cities planned for humans rather than cars
“Worldwide, the majority of people already live in cities and by 2050, it is estimated that 75% of 10 billion people have cities as an important social determinant of health. Air pollution, physical inactivity, noise, social isolation, unhealthy diets, and exposure to crime play a very important part in the non-communicable disease burden. This 3-part […]