Injury Prevention podcast

Ever wondered what it would be like to help design and run a world injury conference? Come visit Safety 2022, in a conversation with a member of the Australian Organising Committee. Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McLure, talks with Dr Amy Peden* at the Safety 2022 Conference, in Adelaide, Australia. *Bachelor of Arts (Government and International Relations, Social Policy), Master of Public Policy, PhD (Health); School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of NSW Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening!

In this month's podcast, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Dr Rod McClure​, talks with Professor Fred Rivara, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, School of Medicine. They explore what is unique about Injury Prevention as a field, and where this field integrates with the more general world of public health. They also discuss leadership in injury prevention and the major challenges ahead. Some of Professor Fred Rivara's latest papers: - A Qualitative study on diverse perspectives and identities of firearm owners - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/5/434 - Concussion education for youth athletes using Pre-Game Safety Huddles: a cluster-randomised controlled trial - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2022/09/16/ip-2022-044665 - Predictors of health-related quality of life following injury in childhood and adolescence: a pooled analysis - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/4/301 - Association of state-level intoxicated driving laws with firearm homicide and suicide - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/1/32 - Age, period and cohort effects in firearm homicide and suicide in the USA, 1983–2017 - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/27/4/344 Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening!

In this podcast we talk about national collaboration across the field of injury prevention through the eyes of Pamela Fuselli, president and CEO of a national injury prevention charity, in Canada, Parachute. We also discuss the upcoming 2022 Canadian Injury Prevention Conference. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening!

David Hemenway, PhD, is Professor of Health Policy, and the Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening!

This month, we explore the career of Professor Flaura Winston, Scientific Director of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Distinguished Chair in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr Winston is a board-certified pediatrician, a doctorally-trained engineer, and a public health researcher, who conducts research at the interface of child and adolescent health, injury, engineering, and behavioral science. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening!

In a very personal interview, Dr Mark Rosenberg, who has been at the centre of injury prevention for more than a generation, tells Dr Rod McClure​, about his path in a career that was not always understood. "We were given an old bathroom in the sub-sub-basement of a minor building and a lot of people in public health thought that's just where we belonged." Mark L. Rosenberg was president and CEO of the Task Force for Global Health, and has also worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 20 years, where he was instrumental in founding the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening!

This month we chat with three students recently awarded for their papers at the SAVIR injury conference in the USA. Stephen Oliphant is a Doctoral Candidate, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University; Kelsey Conrick is a Doctoral Student, School of Social Work, University of Washington; and Mudia Uzzi is a Doctoral Candidate, Health Policy Research Scholar at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Department of Health, Behavior and Society Johns Hopkins University. Read these and the other Abstracts from the SAVIR conference on the Injury Prevention website: "Do handgun purchase waiting periods save lives? Evidence from a synthetic control approach" - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/Suppl_1/A6.2 "Modeling the association of structural racism with disparities in firearm homicide victimization" - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/Suppl_1/A23.1 "Investigating violence disparities through an intersectional lens: using additive interaction approaches to explore the relationship of redlining and racialized economic segregation on non-fatal shootings in Baltimore city, Maryland" - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/Suppl_1/A57.2. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening!

In this conversation with two members of the scientific committee of the recently held conference of​ the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research​ (SAVIR)​, we focus on ways of growing the field of Injury Prevention and ​include ​new generations of emerging professionals. ​Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McClure​, interviews Rosemary Nabaweesi, Associate Professor in the Center for Health Policy at the School of Graduate Studies and Research, Meharry Medical College, Tennessee, and Elizabeth E. O'Neal, Postdoctoral Research Fellow - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening!

"Someone has to make a bold experiment once in a while". This month, we talk to Professor Robert Thomson, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. The discussion begins with PhD work on roadside barriers and ends with a discussion about commitment to grand visions, preventing injuries and saving lives. "Here's what you can do if your government and your society gets on board". The conversation, lead by Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention Rod McClure, also covers the unintended safety costs of electrification of modern vehicles. There remains a world of opportunity for the safety engineer. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening!

In this podcast, we walk in the shoes of two PhD scholars starting out on their careers in violence and injury prevention research. Jennifer L. Thompson, MPH, and Lauren Malthaner, MPH, University of Texas, School of Public Health, describe their personal and diverse aspects of the experience they bring to their Doctoral studies. They talk about how their experiences shape their aspirations. They talk of the experience of pandemic learning and provide demonstration of how deep reflection and frank articulation of insights are such important drivers of necessary change. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening!

Dr Rebecca Spicer, Impact Research, LLC, PhD, MPH, is an epidemiologist working among engineers to make cars safer. A change of path in her career that is allowing her to see her "work make a difference". In this conversation with Dr Rod McClure, she advises career-seekers to "look beyond what's normal". Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening!

In this podcast, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Professor Rod McClure, interviews Dr Sharon Newnam. Dr Newnam is Associate Professor (Research), Monash University Accident Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia, and has made significant contributions to translating science to industry and government. She describes her research on the factors influencing safety performance in the workplace, from the individual characteristics of workers to the safety practices of management and beyond. Dr Newnam provides a road map for people wanting to learn how to make research matter. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening!

Professor Roszalina Ramli, Department of oral and maxillofacial surgery, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon by training, who developed skills in biomechanics and epidemiology in order to solve what she saw as a major community problem. In this podcast, Dr Ramli tells Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McClure, how she stepped from the operating theatre to research, and into public health policy. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening!

Is there only one way into the field of injury prevention? And once there, do we all find the same thing, and follow the same path? Dr Katelyn Jetelina's unique research journey in the broader theme of violence has covered, among many other subjects, the correlation between suicide and cancer, or the covid-19 pandemic and intimate partner violence. It's a fascinating path that has a lot to tell to young researchers. Dr Jetelina is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening. Relevant papers related to this podcast: 56 The impact of intimate partner violence on breast and cervical cancer treatment among patients in an integrated, safety-net setting - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/Suppl_1/A4.2 Changes in intimate partner violence during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/27/1/93 Factors associated with civilian and police officer injury during 10 years of officer-involved shooting incidents - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/6/509 Gradual escalation of use-of-force reduces police officer injury - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/1/35 111 The impact urbanization has on law enforcement stress during traumatic calls for service - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/Suppl_1/A54.1

Dr Carl Bonander, Karlstad University, Sweden, is an injury prevention researcher developing innovative applications of data science to solve real world problems. A self-described skeptic his new discoveries are driven by his search for answers to the question "why". Listen to the podcast and read some related articles published by Injury Prevention: - Compared with what? Estimating the effects of injury prevention policies using the synthetic control method - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i60 - Can the provision of a home help service for the elderly population reduce the incidence of fall-related injuries? A quasi-experimental study of the community-level effects on hospital admissions in Swedish municipalities - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/22/6/412 - The effect of the transition from the ninth to the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases on external cause registration of injury morbidity in Sweden - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/21/3/189 Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening.

In the style of a “choose your own adventure”, our guest this month, Dr Judy Fleiter, takes us on a journey through the decision points in her career. Not afraid to step through small gaps to see what lies beyond, Dr Fleiter walks now on the world stage. As a key player at the Second Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030, she is an outstanding example of the modern collaborative leader. Judy Fleiter PhD, is the Global Manager with the Global Road Safety Partnership International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, in Geneva, Switzerland. Read more about road safety: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/ The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening.

In this month's podcast, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McClure, talks with Henry Xiang, MD, MPH, PhD, Professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Ohio State University College of Medicine. Professor Xiang's trained in China in Clinical Medicine and spent most of his career as a researcher in big data in the USA. The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

This month we talk with Dr Brett Shannon, John Monash Scholar and PhD Student at the University of Illinois Chicago, who has an extensive professional track record in medicine, epidemiology, business and policy to identify critical areas in need of further research in occupational health among Indigenous people.

Alcohol-related vehicle crashes pose a significant challenge to public health in suburban communities. The Evesham Saving Lives programme operated between late 2015 and 2019 in two townships in New Jersey. The programme subsidised rideshare (eg, Uber) trips from bars and restaurants to prevent alcohol-related traffic injuries, and is the basis of this month's podcast. Professor Rod McClure interviews David Humphreys, Associate Professor of Evidence-Based Intervention and Policy Evaluation, Research fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, about the editor's choice paper of the month titled “Assessing the impact of a local community subsidised rideshare programme on road traffic injuries: an evaluation of the Evesham Saving Lives programme” and available here: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/27/3/232. The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

This month’s interview is with Professor Alison Macpherson, from the Faculty of Health, York University, Canada. As an experienced and passionate academic, she believes that policy makers and the public need to be included in research from the beginning of the research process. She also tells Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McClure, how important it would be to get students more involved. Related paper published by Injury Prevention: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/5/321 The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

In this month’s podcast, Rod McLure talks to Renee Johnson, Dr. Holly Hedegaard, Emilia Pasalic, and Pedro Martinez, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US. They are Guest Editors of the Injury Prevention's new supplement, which explores injury epidemiology and surveillance methods using ICD-10-CM coded data, and was published in March 2021. Read it on the Injury Prevention website: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/27/S1 Please also read the blog post: https://blogs.bmj.com/injury-prevention/2021/03/05/setting-the-foundation-for-using-icd-10-cm-coded-data-for-injury-surveillance-and-epidemiology/ The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

In this month’s podcast, Rod McLure talks to Professor Richard Matzopoulos, about his work as a researcher-practitioner working across government and academia in South Africa. He details his data-driven policy work to support an evidence-based approach to large impact upstream nation-level interventions. Richard Matzopoulos is a Chief Specialist Scientist and Co-Director of the South African Medical Research Council’s Burden of Disease Research Unit and an Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town’s Division of Public Health Medicine, where he co-ordinates its Violence and Injury Research programme. His research centres on measuring the health and social burden of violence and injury, and evaluating interventions and policies that target upstream determinants. He advises the Western Cape Government on alcohol harm reduction, and interpersonal violence and injury prevention and surveillance. He is a South African focal point for the international Violence Prevention Alliance and a member of the International Collaborative Effort on Injury Statistics and Methods. The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

What is the “safety in numbers” effect? And how can research conducted in simulated environments challenge the results of real-life studies about cyclists safety? The discussion in this podcast with Dr Jason Thompson, University of Melbourne, Australia, introduces the idea of modeling artificial societies, and suggests ways these agent-based models can be used to advance injury prevention. Read the related paper on the Injury Prevention website: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/25/5/379

Morag Mackay, Research Director, Safekids Worldwide, is an injury prevention expert with high-level experience in research policy and practice. In this podcast, she stresses the need for training in the field of injury prevention, and acknowledges the wider context within which injury prevention is practiced. A related article authored by Morag has been published by Injury Prevention: injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i67 The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

On the 25th anniversary of the Injury Prevention journal, we talk to Emeritus Professor Barry Pless, founding Editor-in-Chief and Director of the Community, Developmental and Epidemiologic Research, at the Montreal Children's Hospital, Canada. Read the related Editorial of the December issue: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/6/505 The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

In this month’s podcast, we talk to Denise Kendrick, General Practitioner in the north of England with a quiet passion for supporting her patients' health outcomes, and the population health outcomes of communities within which her patients live. She has focused on the prevention of injury in young and older people, improving injury recovery, and translating research to practice over the last 20 years. To read some of Dr Kendrick’s research please visit the Injury Prevention website through the direct links below: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2020/10/16/injuryprev-2020-043877 https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/25/5/453 More related papers about the topics of this podcast: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/25/6/557 https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/25/4/258 https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/Supp_1/i67 https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/25/3/199 The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

In this podcast, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McClure, talks to Erin Hamilton (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle) about the Global Burden of Disease (GBD), the same topic of a special issue just published by Injury Prevention. Read more on the journal's website: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/Supp_1 The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

In this month’s podcast, we bring you an orderly walk through the life of a senior in the field. It moves from childhood drivers through private, to not profit, to public sector experiences and how it all comes together in the current job of Professor Ian Pike, University of British Columbia, Canada. Read more about these topics on the Injury Prevention website - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/ - and blog - http://blogs.bmj.com/injury-prevention/. The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

In this podcast, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McClure,talks to Dr. Becky Naumann. She is a research assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and core faculty at UNC's Injury Prevention Research Center. Dr. Naumann’s main area of research has focused on understanding risk factors and trends of unintentional injuries and evaluating injury prevention interventions, largely in the areas of road traffic injury and opioid overdose. Read more about these topics on the Injury Prevention podcast - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/ The Injury Prevention podcast is released on the first Thursday of each month. Please subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

In this podcast, Rod McLure talks to Associate Professor Bridget Kool about New Zealand's success in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. They also discuss the implications of this success for injury prevention.

Fewer cars, more walking and cycling after the COVID-19 pandemic, suggests the Head of Sustainable Mobility and Safety Research at Monash University in this month’s podcast. Dr Ben Beck, who’s the President of the Australasian Injury Prevention Network, believes that enhancing safety and reducing injury will require a shift in cities infrastructure investments. He also tells Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McClure, how his path in this field started through biomechanics. https://blogs.bmj.com/injury-prevention/2020/03/19/covid19-latest-news-and-resources-at-the-bmj/

In this podcast, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McClure, interviews Dr Margie Peden, Head of the Global Injury Programme at the George Institute, University of Oxford, and co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Injury Prevention and Trauma Care. The conversation takes them from clinical practice in trauma units in South Africa to her work in injury prevention with the WHO, in Geneva, for almost 20 years.

Motorcycles pose higher risk to other road users than cars, according to the study discussed in this podcast. Rod McClure talks to Dr Rachel Aldred, University of Westminster, about her recent paper published by Injury Prevention, which analyses the risk of injury to others constituted by six different transport modes, driver's/riders’ gender and type of roads. The study also confirms that men drivers pose more risk than women drivers to the community. Read the paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043534

What does it mean to be an injury prevention scientist? Rod McClure asks Associate Professor Lyndal Bugeja (Nursing and Midwifery and the Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia). They also discuss the challenge of the fragmentation of disciplines in the Injury Prevention field.

In this podcast, Rod McClure discusses with statistician Yvette Holder the importance of data and evidence-based driven decisions in the context of 'Injury Surveillance', a field of injury prevention which is all about understanding the nature of the injury problem, its causes, and then helping people implement solutions.

Dr Andrés Villaveces, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC USA, has come from 'grassroots' through the main injury prevention institutions of the world. He tells Rod McClure about his pathway to injury prevention and leaves some advice for students in this area.

The focus of the podcast this month is the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR). Editor-in-Chief Rod McClure chats to the President of the SAVIR, Dr Linda Degutis, about the work of the society and the role of the journal of Injury Prevention on the work of preventing and treating injury and violence. https://www.savirweb.org/ https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/

Technology is bringing both challenges and new solutions to the injury prevention science. Professor Richard Franklin, Co-Director of the World Safety Organisation Collaborating Centre for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, James Cook University, Australia, has a positive view of the future of our cities, which will rely much more on active and safe transportation. He tells Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention Rod McClure about the evidence-based and public health approaches of his work, especially in rural populations. They also discuss the upcoming Safety 2020 - the world conference taking place in Adelaide, Australia, which organising committee Professor Franklin is part of (https://www.worldsafety2020.com).

It started with a campaign for the bicycle helmet in children. It didn’t become a national priority, but helped to increase its usage from 2% to 70% in the last two decades in the USA. Dr. Abraham “Abe” Bergman has dedicated most of his long career as a pediatrician to the field of injury prevention. He helped found the Harborview Center and, at 87, he tells Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention Rod McClure some of his success stories, but also frustrations of the last 60 years. Read the related blog post: https://blogs.bmj.com/injury-prevention/2019/10/03/personal-disappointments-in-injury-prevention-abe-bergman/

Dr Deb Azrael tells the "origin story" of firearms injury as a public health problem through the lens of one of the key firearms research groups in the US over nearly 30 years. She also discusses current data of gun possession, suicide rates and the real challenges of this problem in the country. Read the special issue of Injury Prevention on firearms: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/25/5. The editorial of the special issue is available here: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/25/Suppl_1/i1.

In this podcast, Professor Brent Hagel, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, tells Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McLure, how his career as a scientist moved from an undergraduate degree in health education through to injury prevention in sports and more recently to methods of encouraging physical activity within a safe environment. The conversation evolves to a detailed discussion of the rigorous methodological approaches used in injury prevention. The articles mentioned in this podcast are: - Hagel BE, Meeuwisse WH, Mohtadi NG, Fick GH.Skiing and snowboarding injuries in the children and adolescents of Southern Alberta.Clin J Sport Med. 1999 Jan;9(1):9-17; - Thompson DC, Rivara FP, Thompson RS.Effectiveness of bicycle safety helmets in preventing head injuries. A case-control study.JAMA. 1996 Dec 25;276(24):1968-73; - Roberts I, Marshall R, Lee-Joe T. The urban traffic environment and the risk of child pedestrian injury: a case-crossover approach. Epidemiology. 1995 Mar;6(2):169-71; - Runyan CW. Using the Haddon matrix: introducing the third dimension. Inj Prev. 1998 Dec;4(4):302-7 (https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/4/4/302).

Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Ian Roberts first trained as a paediatrician in the UK and then studied injury prevention and trauma care in New Zealand and Canada. In this podcast, he tells Rod McClure how a young death triggered the swap from a career in treatment to one in prevention. He also talks about the need to think about injury prevention in a more sustainable way. Find the Injury Prevention podcast on the journal website (https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/) as well as on your preferred App every first Thursday of the month.