New and Events

On November 17th occurred both the World Day of Remembrance for road traffic victims and the African Day for Road Safety. ALINAGNON and its partners, HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL and the National Center for Road Safety (CNSR) created several events in Cotonou to celebrate this special day. More information here

On March 6th to 8th the National institute of Public Health (Mexico) hosted the 15th National Congress on Public Health Research with the objective of sharing and discussing with key stakeholders of society, the progress in public health research that will contribute to the identification and understanding of health problems their determinants and challenges to

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

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

Hosted by the Malaysian Institute for Road Safety Research (MIROS), the second semi-annual board meeting for the RTIRN was held on May 9, 2008. The discussion at the meeting centered on reviewing RTIRN project activities for the World Bank Trust Fund grant, planning for future course of action for these projects, and seeking additional funds

RTIRN and its local partners in India successfully held a meeting on road traffic injury research priorities in South Asia . The meeting was attended by over 60 researchers, clinicians and policy makers including representatives of the Indian Navy Station Health Organization, Maharashtra Health Department, the Indian National Institutes of Mental Health and Neurosciences and

During the International Women’s Day, ALINAGNON decided to draw women’s attention to the importance of wearing a helmet when riding a motorcycle. A group a 40 women stood at some of the busiest intersections of Cotonou and went talking to the women about the danger of being on a motorcycle without a helmet More information

Because of the great contributions we have received over this year and because of the great participation from all of you on last year’s “Best Contributions Award”, we will award the best contribution of 2012. We strongly believe that the participation of our network is fundamental and without them we wouldn’t have a newsletter. This

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

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