During 19-21 of November 2014, in partnership with the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Community Safety, the PeerCorps-CIPCS is planning to launch an East African regional conference on community safety. The conference themes will include: traffic safety, child and adolescent safety, violence prevention and workplace safety.
The conference, which aims to gather world leading safety experts, government officials and members of the public health community, represents a unique opportunity to showcase emerging trends in population safety, particularly as they relate to traffic safety in the region. The East African community encompasses Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda. With well over 150 million people and a planned common currency, it also represents one of the fastest growing economic regions in the world. We feel the conference represents a unique opportunity to not only advance safety in the region, but also to have a diverse audience to shape the future of safety in the East African region.
PeerCorps welcomes to the conference our colleagues interested in contributing to community safety in the East Africa region. We are now accepting abstract submissions of original work conducted by safe community practitioners and researchers. We also have an exciting program being planned that includes a traveling seminar. More details can be found at the conference website at www.peercorpsglobal.org, which is updated frequently with new information. For abstract inquiries, please contact earscc2014@peercorpstrust.org