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In April, 2012, as part of the effort to draw attention to the growing burden of road traffic injuries, the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health launched "Public Health Burden of Road Traffic Injuries: An Assessment from Ten Low- and Middle-Income Countries", a special issue of Traffic Injury Prevention. The launch coincided with a midday seminar at the Bloomberg School in Baltimore, Maryland, which features panelists from the World Health Organization and the Global Road Safety Partnership.

In April, 2012, as part of the effort to draw attention to the growing burden of road traffic injuries, the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health launched "Public Health Burden of Road Traffic Injuries: An Assessment from Ten Low- and Middle-Income Countries", a special issue of Traffic Injury Prevention. The launch coincided with a midday seminar at the Bloomberg School in Baltimore, Maryland, which features panelists from the World Health Organization and the Global Road Safety Partnership.

In April, 2012, as part of the effort to draw attention to the growing burden of road traffic injuries, the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health launched "Public Health Burden of Road Traffic Injuries: An Assessment from Ten Low- and Middle-Income Countries", a special issue of Traffic Injury Prevention. The launch coincided with a midday seminar at the Bloomberg School in Baltimore, Maryland, which features panelists from the World Health Organization and the Global Road Safety Partnership.

In April, 2012, as part of the effort to draw attention to the growing burden of road traffic injuries, the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health launched "Public Health Burden of Road Traffic Injuries: An Assessment from Ten Low- and Middle-Income Countries", a special issue of Traffic Injury Prevention. The launch coincided with a midday seminar at the Bloomberg School in Baltimore, Maryland, which features panelists from the World Health Organization and the Global Road Safety Partnership.

JHSPH Dean Michael Klag opens the first International Symposium of Road Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries on October 16, 2014, sponsored by the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit.

Dr. David Bishai outlines the goals of the first International Symposium on Road Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries on October 16, 2014, hosted by the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit

Dr. Anselm Hennis, Director of Dept of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, PAHO, discusses global road safety at the first International Symposium on Road Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries on October 16, 2014, sponsored by the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit.

Dr. Adnan Hyder, director of the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit, outlines the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Program at the first International Symposium on Road Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries on October 16, 2014, hosted by IIRU

IIRU Professors David Bishai and Adnan Hyder, and PAHO Director of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, Anselm Hennis in Q&A Session 1 for the first International Symposium on Road Safety In Low- and Middle-Income Countries on October 16, 2014, hosted by IIRU

Dr. Flavio Pechansky, Associate Professor, Dept of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, discusses the risk factors of drugs and alcohol at the first International Symposium for Road Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries on October 16, 2014, hosted by the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit.

Dr. Cuong Pham, associate professor and head, Center for Injury Policy and Prevention Research, Hanoi School of Public Health, Vietnam, discusses helmet use at the first International Symposium on Road Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries on October 16, 2014, hosted by the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit.

Dr Shailaja Tetali, assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Public Health in Hyderabad, India, discusses the social-behavioral aspects of risk factors for road traffic injuries at the first International Symposium on Road Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries on October 16, 2014, hosted by the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit.

Drs Flavio Pechansky, Cuong Pham and Shailaja Tetali answer Session 2 questions on risk factors for road traffic injuries at the first International Symposium for Road Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries on October 16, 2014 hosted by the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit.

Kent Stevens, IIRU associate director and assistant professor of surgery, JHU School of Medicine discusses trauma care in low- and middle-income countries at the first International Symposium on Road Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries on October 16, 2014, hosted by Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit.

Daniel Wako, program director, Risk Communication Emergency Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kenya, discusses a care study in Kenya on trauma care for the first International Symposium on Road Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries on October 16, 2014, hosted by the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit.

Dr. G. Gururaj, professor and head, Department of Epidemiology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, India, discusses EMS systems in India during the first International Symposium on Road Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries on October 16, 2014, hosted by the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit.

Dr. Kent Stevens, Mr Daniel Wako and Dr. G. Gururaj discuss post-injury and trauma care in the Session 3 Q&A from the first International Symposium on Road Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries on October 16, 2014, hosted by the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit.

IIRU associate director and assistant professor, Abdulgafoor Bachani discusses monitoring and evaluation lessons from the 10 countries involved in the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Program at the first International Symposium on Road Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries on October 16, 2014, hosted by the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit.

Dr. Ricardo Perez-Nunez, Director of Injury Prevention at the Secretariat of the National Council for Accident Prevention in Mexico discusses the evaluation of the road safety program in Mexico at the first International Symposium on Road Safety for Low- and Middle-Income Countries on October 16, 2014, hosted by the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit.

Dr. Leilei Duan, Director, Injury Prevention, Chinese National Center for Chronic and Non-Communicable Disease Control and Prevention discusses the National Injury Surveillance System in China during the first International Symposium on Road Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries on October 16, 2014 hosted by the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit.

Drs Abdul Bachani, Ricardo Perez-Nunez and Leilei Duan answer questions in a Q&A from Session 4 during the first International Symposium on Road Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries on October 16, 2014, hosted by the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit. IIRU director Adnan Hyder closes the symposium.

On Thursday, February 15, 2018, the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit kicked off its 10th anniversary celebration with a special conversation on alcohol, a leading risk factor for public health. Leadership from JH-IIRU and Johns Hopkins Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth, as well as the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine presented and participated in an interactive panel discussion.

On Monday, January 14, the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit hosted a special webcast event live from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The JH-IIRU team, along with international leaders from Bloomberg Philanthropies, WHO, PAHO, and the city of Fortaleza, Brazil discussed key road safety and sustainable development goal issues in this 90-minute panel discussion and Q&A.