[Sheree Bekker] Injury Prevention has had an exciting start to 2018 with Professor Roderick McClure beginning his tenure as Editor-In-Chief. If you have not yet done so, be sure to read his first editorial: Injury Prevention: Where to from here? To kick off this blog for 2018, I asked Rod a few questions about his vision […]
Category: People in IP
Newsmakers and opinion leaders in injury prevention
Alison Baker-Lewton | People in Injury Prevention
[Sheree Bekker] In the lead up to the 13th Australasian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference, I invited keynote speaker Dr Alison Baker-Lewton to answer a few questions for our blog. Alison Baker-Lewton is a Senior Lecturer in Social Pedagogy in the College of Arts and Education at Victoria University in Melbourne. She received her PhD in Psychology […]
Lynne Moore | People in Injury Prevention
[Sheree Bekker] In the lead up to the 13th Australasian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference, I invited keynote speaker Associate Professor Lynne Moore to answer a few questions for our blog. Lynne Moore is an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the department of social and preventative medicine, Laval University in Québec City. She is recipient […]
Ioni Lewis | People in Injury Prevention
[Sheree Bekker] In the lead up to the 13th Australasian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference, I invited keynote speaker Dr Ioni Lewis to answer a few questions for our blog. Dr Ioni Lewis has 15 years’ experience in road safety and traffic psychology research. She is based at the Queensland University of Technology’s (QUT) Centre […]
Kathrin Steffen | People in Injury Prevention
[Sheree Bekker] In the lead up to the 13th Australasian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference, I invited keynote speaker Dr Kathrin Steffen to answer a few questions for our blog. Kathrin Steffen is a senior researcher from the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center. Kathrin also serves as a research assistant at the Department of Medical […]
Andrea Gielen | People in injury prevention
[Sheree Bekker] In the lead up to the 13th Australasian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference, I invited keynote speaker Professor Andrea Gielen to answer a few questions for our blog. Andrea C. Gielen, ScD, ScM is Professor and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School […]
Steve Marshall | People in injury prevention
[Sheree Bekker] In the lead up to the 13th Australasian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference, I have invited keynote speaker Professor Steve Marshall to answer a few questions for our blog. Steve Marshall, PhD, is an injury epidemiologist. He is the Director of the University of North Carolina (UNC) Injury Prevention Research Center. He is […]
On career building: networking and mentoring
(SB) Recently, Bridie Scott-Parker and I attended the 12th Australasian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference in Sydney Australia. We had never met before, yet Bridie and I have been working together both on the executive board of the Australian Injury Prevention Network (which hosted the conference along with The George Institute for Global Health), as […]
Another colleague honoured: Gary Slutkin, Illinois Order of Lincoln
I found this posted somewhere online and wanted to share the good news with our readers. “Gary Slutkin, M.D., Founder & Executive Director of Cure Violence, will be honored for his work as 2015 Recipient of the Illinois Order of Lincoln, the state’s highest honor for professional achievement and public service. The Order of Lincoln […]
Workshop blog correction
My apologies, it seems I need tuition in proof-reading! I mistakenly omitted Dr Ted Miller, Injury Prevention, as one of the Editors who will be leading the discussion at this great workshop. […]