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Injury Prevention Podcast

by BMJ Group

Injury Prevention is a peer-reviewed online journal that offers the best in science, policy, and public health practice to reduce the burden of injury in all age groups around the world. It offers a free monthly audio podcast on topics relating to the prevention of unintentional, occupational and intentional (violence-related) injuries.The Injury Prevention podcast is released monthly. Subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/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.* The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The content of this podcast does not constitute medical advice and it is not intended to function as a substitute for a healthcare practitioner’s judgement, patient care or treatment. The vie

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Episodes

  1. Reporting at Safety 2022: all shades of Injury Prevention represented

    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...

  2. Leadership in injury prevention, with Professor Fred Rivara

    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...

  3. Collaboration in Injury Prevention, with Pamela Fuselli

    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...

  4. Professor David Hemenway: a public health career in ”a brand new field”, and five books

    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…

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  5. Research at the interface, with Professor Flaura Winston, paediatrician

    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...

  6. “If you don’t have a mentor, go and get them!”, Dr Mark Rosenberg’s 40 years in Injury Prevention

    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...

  7. Handguns, structural racism, and an intersectional framework: 3 student papers

    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…

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  8. Growing ​”a broad field​”​: research and practice​. The SAVIR conference

    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....

  9. From Canada to Sweden. Effective roadside barriers, plus electric cars: opportunities vs safety cost

    "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...

  10. Changing the perception: diversity and representation within academic Injury Prevention

    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…

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  11. ”I like being a big fish in a small pond”, an epidemiologist in an unconventional field

    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...

  12. How to produce meaningful research and how to translate it into practice?

    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...

  13. Helmet type, road safety, covid-19 lockdowns. An oromaxillofacial surgeon preventing injuries in KL

    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...

  14. Violence epidemiology with Dr Katelyn Jetelina

    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...

  15. Data Science: new approaches and applications to injury prevention

    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…

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  16. A surprising path to the Global Road Safety Partnership

    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...

  17. AI and big data in injury prevention

    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…

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  18. Preventing occupational injury in Indigenous and First Nations people

    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...

  19. Night-time subsidised rideshares and prevention of road traffic injuries

    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...

  20. Involving public and politicians in Injury Prevention

    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...

  21. ICD-10-CM Injury Epidemiology and Surveillance Methods

    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...

  22. Quality data and public policy: understanding the causes of causes

    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...

  23. Cycling: testing the concept of “Safety in Density” in artificial societies

    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...

  24. A public health issue and the practice-based knowledge

    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…

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  25. Lessons from Emeritus Professor Barry Pless, founding editor

    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:...

  26. Bringing clinical practice into injury prevention research

    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…

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  27. Digging deeper into the heterogeneity of injuries

    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...

  28. Understanding your market for effective injury prevention

    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,...

  29. Opioids, road safety, and the effectiveness of public policy as an injury prevention tool

    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...

  30. Nationwide public health responses: what can we learn from COVID-19 to prevent injury

    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.

  31. Engineering health and sustainable mobility in the post-COVID-19 era

    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...

  32. Dr Margie Peden - from nursing and clinical practice to global health

    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...

  33. Road crash injury risks: dangerous vehicles and gender disparities

    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...

  34. Overcoming the fragmentation of the injury prevention field

    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...

  35. What is Injury Surveillance?

    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...

  36. Road safety and violence prevention - interview with Dr Andres Villaveces

    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.

  37. Violence and Injury Research - why does it matter?

    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…

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  38. A vision of safer cities

    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…

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  39. Abe Bergman, paediatrician with a lifetime in injury prevention… and many stories

    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...

  40. Firearms injury as a public health problem in the US: origins and challenges

    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....

  41. Safe spaces for children to be active

    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...

  42. Redesigning traffic for people and the environment. Professor Ian Roberts on his shift to prevention

    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…

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  43. Mark Stevenson on mobile phones, big data and a new era in Injury Prevention

    Mark Stevenson (University of Melbourne, Australia) is one of the State of the Art Review Editors of Injury Prevention. He talks with Rod McClure about a new era in the practice of Injury Prevention supported by technology and big data, both powerful allies in his most recent work. More details…

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  44. “Injury Prevention was an accident”. Putting injury in the national agenda in India

    Dr Rakhi Dandona, PhD, is a Clinical Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington and at the Public Health Foundation of India, She is a lead investigator on epidemiological studies on injuries, HIV/AIDS, maternal and…

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  45. Road safety and communication. Why Professor Martha Híjar chose research over public service

    Professor Martha Híjar has recently made the decision of leaving her role as the Director of the National Council for Injury Prevention of the Ministry of Health in México to go back to research. She explains why in this conversation with Professor Rod McClure. She is a professor at the…

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  46. Poverty and children’s burn injury. How common citizens help shape Injury Prevention in South Africa

    This month’s guest is a specialist in childhood burns and violence-related injuries in South Africa. Professor Ashley Van Niekerk is the deputy director of the Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council-University of South Africa. He tells Editor-in-Chief of...

  47. Injury and violence: achieving population level change

    In the first podcast of the year, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention Rod McClure talks to Natalie Wilkins, from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Dr Wilkins experience in the injury prevention field ranges...

  48. Firearms injury. Professor David Studdert on mass shootings, health law and changing careers

    In the second podcast of a series about the papers that helped shape a career in Injury Prevention, Professor Rod McClure talks to Professor David Studdert, expert in health law and empirical legal research from the Stanford Law School and Stanford University School of Medicine, USA, whose latest...

  49. My top papers are… Rachid Salmi on escaping tigers, a bridge of death and child head trauma

    The papers that helped shape a career in Injury Prevention. In the first podcast of this series, Rod McClure, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, talks to Rachid Salmi, Professor of Public Health at the Université de Bordeaux, who pursued a research topic that was "under recognised" in the…

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  50. Structural housing elements associated with home injuries in children

    In this podcast Dr Brian Johnston talks to Wendy Shields and Eileen McDonald co-authors of the paper "Structural housing elements associated with home injuries in children". Full paper >>http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/22/2/105.full

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Injury Prevention is a peer-reviewed online journal that offers the best in science, policy, and public health practice to reduce the burden of injury in all age groups around the world. It offers a free monthly audio podcast on topics relating to the prevention of unintentional, occupational and intentional (violence-related) injuries.The Injury Prevention podcast is released monthly. Subscribe via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/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.* The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. The content of this podcast does not constitute medical advice and it is not intended to function as a substitute for a healthcare practitioner’s judgement, patient care or treatment. The vie

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