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November 7th 2011.- The Road Traffic Injuries Research Network (RTIRN) along with the World Health Organization South-East Asia Regional Office (SEARO) and The George Institute for Global Health organized the regional workshop entitled “WHO-RTIRN Regional workshop on Public Health Research on Road Traffic Injuries” to inform development of the SEARO draft regional road traffic injury […]

On Novender 24th 2011 at 10:00 hrs–(CST Mexico Time) it took place the third webinar organized by the RTIRN entitled “How can we build capacity for injury and violence prevention?”. With the participation of Dr. David Meddings, from the Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability at the World Health Organization (WHO). The webinar

On 1993 the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims –was first celebrated nationally, this special date has been observed and promoted worldwide by several non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This year some of our RTIRN partners join the commemoration of this very special date. Mexico Philippines Benin Contact Ricardo Pérez-Núñez, Tel: +52 777 1023946 Email:

On April 12th of 2012 at 8:00 hrs––(CST Mexico Time) it took place the RTIRN`s fourth webinar entitled “Road Traffic Safety and Law”. With the participation of Ms. Evelyn Murphy the World Health Organization (WHO). Ms. Evelyn Murphy talked about what does road safety law refer to? How has legislation been effective as part of

CARRS–Q student and recent RTIRN partner Mr. George Jia wins Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Post Graduate Award to undertake research into Drink Driving. CARRS-Q will lend its considerable expertise to China to try to determine why the nation has so many drink driving related road crashes. CARRS-Q Researcher George Jia said while China owned just

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

July 23rd, 2012. The Mobility and Development Mexico Civil Association presented for the fifth time the Yellow Diamond awards to the best road safety initiatives in Mexico, with the ongoing objective to identify and reward initiatives that positively affect Mexican society on the prevention of road traffic injuries, while encouraging the realization of more and

An international spotlight has been cast on road traffic injuries – one of the major global health challenges of our time. A major Clinical Series on Trauma Surgery, led by Australia’s National Trauma Research Institute, updates present knowledge of three broad aspects of acute trauma care: haemorrhagic shock (responsible for most preventable trauma deaths); traumatic

Because of the great contributions we have received during thias last years, we believed that is important to acknowledge the effort and time invested from our RTIRN community on our newsletter. This is why we rewarded the best contributions of 2011. The Best Contribution Award (RTIRN BCA) of 2011 went to Ms. Daranee Suvapan (Thailand)

The carrot law is a restriction in the time limit of sale for alcoholic beverages, established in 1996 in the cities of Bogota and Cali, in order to reduce the effect of alcohol on violence, reducing mortality by homicides, road traffic injuries and suicides. This policy was also approved by Brazil and Paraguay. In 2007,