A recent article in the New York Times captures several elusive aspects of gun violence prevention efforts and the “gun culture” that exists in some places in the United States. The article, Titled “Children and Guns: the Hidden Toll” focuses on the most tragic of unintentional gun related fatalities; those that involve children shooting themselves […]
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U.S. Federal Highway Administration’s new policy informed by cycle track research published in IP
The following is a guest blog post by Anne Lusk, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health, AnneLusk@hsph.harvard.edu Editor note: The incorporation of scientific evidence into policy is a critical element in public health research benefiting populations. This guest blog post highlights one example of research, published in Injury Prevention, which has influenced policy. […]
Urgent request from California re firearm legislation
Garen Wintemute, former member of our Editorial Board and Director of the Violence Prevention Research at UC Davis, sent this urgent request regarding pending legislation in California: I write with good news and a request. The California legislature has just passed a large number of firearm policy measures and sent them to Governor Brown for consideration. […]
In search of a prize
As do many others, I like to collect prizes. So in my continued pursuit I checked this years IgNoble prizes but failed to find my name. Here are two that did turn up that readers may find of interest: SAFETY ENGINEERING PRIZE: The late Gustano Pizzo [USA], for inventing an electro-mechanical system to trap airplane […]
Notes from Canada on bullying and DWI
Two items that I trust will be of some interest to readers of this blog. The first is from Paul Kells, the former CEO of Safe Communities in Canada. Now that SC has been absorbed by Parachute (the new umbrella organization – no pun intended) he has launched a new career and one part of […]
Improving reporting in injury prevention research
A recent Editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine by O’Brien, Donaldson, Barbery, and Finch addresses an important element in injury prevention research: the completeness of the intervention reporting. The RE-AIM framework can be used as a tool to facilitate the translation of research into practice. It can be used from the earliest phases […]
Missouri’s Gun Bill
In about a week, the legislators in the US state of Missouri will vote to override the state governor’s veto on a sweeping state law that would nullify all US federal gun laws in Missouri. This legislation would make it a crime for US federal agents to enforce federal gun laws in the state of […]
Floods and injury prevention: Using available tools to understand and minimise risks
I found the article I am chatting about today as particularly interesting, and not just because I lived through the event under examination. January 2011 saw 99% of my home state of Queensland, Australia, declared a disaster zone. We had survived weeks of intense rain across much of the state, and the sodden ground meant floodwaters […]
Conferences and collaborations
Last week I had the privilege of attending and presenting at two conferences in Brisbane, the capital of my home state of Queensland, Australia. The 20th conference for the International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety was followed by the Road Safety, Research, Policing and Education Conference 2013. In case you had not previously considered attending conferences, […]
Preventing Unintentional Ingestion of Marijuana by Children
Editor Note – The following guest blog post is by Jodi Duke, MPH. Jodi is a PhD student in the Health Systems, Management and Policy Department at the Colorado School of Public Health. Disclosure – I am a coauthor on Health Impact Assessment discussed in this post. A number of states and municipalities in the […]