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Skills Development For Research In Road Traffic Injuries, October 28, 2006, Cairo, Egypt

Skills Development For Research In Road Traffic Injuries, October 28, 2006, Cairo , Egypt . Introduction to RTIRN and workshop objectives Regional overview: Burden and priorities for research Burden and priorities for research in Egypt Identifying relevant research questions / topics Systematic review Rising to the challenge of RTI in Nigeria Principles of grant writing […]

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NEW ARRB Research Report 383 – Safe System Infrastructure: Implementation Issues in Low and Middle Income Countries

More than 1.24 million people die and between 20 and 50 million people are injured on the world’s roads every year, with the largest portion of this burden carried by those in low and middle income countries. Improvement to road infrastructure is a key mechanism for improving safety in all countries. A variety of proven

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Observatory on Fatal Injuries Caused by External Factors in Lima (Peru)

After a year of the promulgation of the Ordinance 1568, the process of monitoring deaths from external causes (accidents, homicides and suicides), through data provided by the Institute of Legal Medicine, establishes the “Observatory on Fatal Injury Caused by External Factors” The Fatal Injury Observatory belongs to the Deputy of Health of the Social Development

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SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS NEW IIRU RESEARCH ON GLOBAL ROAD SAFETY

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

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RTIRN FIRST WEBINAR

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

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RTIRN regional workshop “Emergency Medical Systems in Mesoamerica: A key component of the Global Decade of Action for Road Safety”

May 23rd, 2014.- The Road Traffic Injuries Research Network with financial support from The Global Road Safety Fund, organized a two day workshop for the Mesoamerican region. The event took place in the city of Cuernavaca (Mexico) on April 22nd and 23rd, 2014. The event featured the involvement of expert facilitators and presenters from RTIRN,

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Announcement and Call for Abstracts. East African Regional Safe Communities Conference 2014, Arusha, Tanzania, 19-21 November

The International and Local Organizing Committees cordially invite you to participate in the first East African Regional Conference on Safe Communities. The conference will be held at the Arusha International Conference Center in Arusha, Tanzania. DATES TO REMEMBER Scholarship application Due – July 15 Abstract deadline (for inclusion in conference proceedings) – August 15 Authors

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2014 East African Safe Communities Conference

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

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