Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit Hosts Collaborator’s Meeting and International Symposium
Last week, the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU) brought together collaborators from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Program for a series of meetings that included a two-day collaborator’s meeting and a one-day global road safety symposium.
As the first phase of the Global Road Safety Program comes to a close, lead collaborators involved with the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) component of the project assembled to focus on the most up-to-date technical aspects of data collection and analysis in each of the participating countries. In addition to updates from each country, sessions included a status report on the training component of the project, as well as the trauma care sub-projects in Kenya, India and Mexico.
The conference was held from October 14-15, 2014 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
2014 Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Program Collaborator's Meeting group
On October 16, 2014, JH-IIRU held its first-ever International Symposium on Road Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Trauma care group: (l to r) From Kenya, Mr. Bethuel Aliwa, IIRU associate director, Dr. Kent Stevens and former IIRU post-doc, Dr. Fatima Paruk
IIRU team members and Global Road Safety collaborators participated in sessions that included risk factors for road traffic injuries; post injury and trauma care; and monitoring and evaluation for road safety. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Dean Michael J. Klag opened the symposium and special guest Dr. Anselm Hennis, Director of the Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), spoke of the importance of global road safety.
India collaborator, Dr. G. Gururaj
The symposium was designed to create awareness of the global burden of road traffic injuries especially in LMICs; to share knowledge generated and lessons learned from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Program; and to facilitate networking and collaboration between road safety colleagues globally.
(l to r) Brazil collaborator, Dr. Flavio Pechansky and IIRU director, Dr. Adnan Hyder
A recording of the day will be available here.
(l to r) Session 2 participants, From Vietnam, Dr. Cuong Pham, from India, Dr. Shailaja Tetali, from Brazil, Dr. Flavio Pechansky
(l to r) IIRU associate director, Dr. Abdulgafoor Bachani and Mexico collaborator, Ricardo Perez-Nunez
All photos courtesy of Dr. Isaac Botchey, Jr.