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We, at the RTIRN, are very proud to inform you, that during the month of May, Dr. Martha C. Hijar, a former RTIRN Board member and current advisor of the current Secretariat, was accepted to be part of the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico in the Social medicine area of the Public Health and […]

Miros D-G: Road fatalities at alarming level

On Wednesday, September 22nd of 2010; the RTIRN parallel session took place at the 10th World Conference on Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion in London, England. The session was a total success; over 120 people attended the session including all 22 researchers that received an scholarship from the RTIRN to attend the World’s Conference. According

By Hallvard Gjerde, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway. Background Each year about 1.2 million people are killed in road traffic accidents (RTA), and about 85% of the deaths occur in LMI countries. In most of those countries there are more than 20 fatalities per 10 000 vehicles per year, in some countries more

It’s our pleasure to inform you that the World Health Organization has designated the Department of Emergency Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care. The collaborating center will carry out research in the area of emergency medicine and trauma, promote emergency medicine, trauma care and

RTIRN is a member of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration ( www.who.int/roadsafety/en/) and participated in the recent meeting in Geneva on 5-6 Oct 2010. Dr. Adnan Hyder, Chair of RTIRN attended the meeting and represented the network. The capacity development initiatives of RTIRN were reported to UNRSC including the support for junior researchers, sabbaticals

We are honored to inform you that the Department of International Health and International Injury Research Unit at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, have been designated a “collaborating center” by the World Health Organization. Dr. Adnan Hyder, RTIRN board chair, will be the director of the new collaborating center. This new WHO

The NGO ALINAGNON, carrying placards and banners that read various requirements of road safety, join the infamous “crossroads of life” formerly called “crossroads of death” because of the horrifying number of traffic accidents that occur every year. Fatal irony of fate, two hours before the arrival of the cortege at the place of the celebration,

On December 6th 2010 at 8:30 pm (CST Mexico Time) it took place the first webinar organized by the RTIRN entitled “Introduction to the research process: road traffic injury research in low and middle income country settings”. With the participation of Dr. Rebecca Ivers (RTIRN Board Member), Ha Nguyen and Jagnoor (both of them researcher

In anticipation of the United Nation’s Decade for action on road safety, which will take place from 2011 to 2020, the Republic Council on Road Traffic Safety (RCRTS) this year has celebrated the World Day of remembrance for road traffic victims for the second time. On Thursday, 18th November 2010, at 11:00 a joint press-conference