New and Events

We are very happy to share some good news with you – the Secretary General’s 2011 final report on improving road safety to the UN General Assembly is attached. The report shows some of the activities and achievements that took place on October 2009 to August 2011 towards the objectives of the Decade of Action […]

Miros D-G: Road fatalities at alarming level

RTIRN at the 9th International Conference on Injury prevention and SAFETY Promotion, Merida, Mexico RTIRN Business meeting Held on March 16 2008, the RTIRN business meeting welcomed both existing and potential partners. The purpose of the meeting was to inform the participants about the current and future programs of RTIRN, introduce the new Secretariat, and

The UK Faculty of Public Health (@FPH) published position and briefing statements on ‘Transport and Health’ and ‘Built Environment & Physical activity’ (attached), all available at http://www.fph.org.uk/policy_reports Direct links to other pdf files of interest: Position statement Transport http://www.fph.org.uk/uploads/Position%20statement%20Transport%20and%20health.pdf Briefing Statement Transport http://www.fph.org.uk/uploads/briefing%20statement%20transport%20V2.pdf Position Statement Built Environment & Physical Activity http://www.fph.org.uk/uploads/position%20statement%20-%20built%20environment%20and%20physical%20activity.pdf Briefing Statement Built Environment

The Republic Council on road traffic safety has coordinated the activities of the partner institutions for World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 2013: Press-conference at the Republic Council on Road Traffic Safety held on November 14th 2013 Organization of round table on November 16th in Skopje entitled “How to reduce traffic accidents with

October 19th 2012.- The Road Traffic Injuries Research Network along with the George Institute for Global Health, with financial support from The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), organized a two day workshop for the Asia Pacific region. The event took place at the Te Raukura, also known as “Wharewaka” located on the city of

June 15, 2011 -On 9 June 2011, the WHO and the World Bank officially launched the first-ever World report on disability. “Disability is part of the human condition,” says WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan. “Almost every one of us will be permanently or temporarily disabled at some point in life. We must do more to

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

RTIRN at the 9th International Conference on Injury prevention and SAFETY Promotion, Merida, Mexico RTIRN Special Session The RTIRN held a special session, entitled ‘Road Traffic Injuries: Confronting Disparities to address a global health problem’, at Safety 2008, on 17 March 2008. The session, attended widely with representation from many different countries, opened with a

RTIRN partners Dr. Diana Samarakkody and Professor Samath Dharmarathna just published a book on injury prevention (Grass roots Injury Prevention – GRIP Guide) by Practical Action Publishing, United Kingdom. This book is targeted for grass root level injury prevention practitioners and one chapter is dedicated to discuss on prevention of road traffic injuries. The GRIP