Editorial
Safety 2014: global highlights in injury prevention Brian D Johnston I was very disappointed, along with many of you, when Safety 2014: the World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, scheduled to convene in Atlanta last year, was cancelled. These biennial meetings have provided the single best opportunity for members of our disparate and eclectic global community to come together, learn from each other and maintain momentum in the worldwide struggle against violence and injury. The gathering allows us to share new research, see new approaches to implementation and to influence the current vision and direction of the field. Given the wide range of professionals interested in injury control, there is always a challenge to present papers that reflect the scope of the discipline as well as to meet the needs of researchers, trainees, educators, policy makers, programme planners and advocates. Nevertheless, we seem to get it mostly right. Evaluation of the last World Conference was general favourable, with attendees able to identify the impact of the Correspondence to Dr Brian D Johnston, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Avenue – Box 359774, Seattle, WA 98104, USA; [email protected]
event on their career course, professional networks and prevention programme focus.1 When Safety 2014 was cancelled, the journal decided that we would try to replicate some of the experience that our readers would be missing. The result is this special online issue ‘Safety 2014— Global Highlights in Injury Prevention,’ to which we are pleased to offer timelimited open access. As we would expect at the in-person event, we lead off with perspective from Dr. Etienne Krug,2 WHO’s Director of the Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention. The WHO cosponsors these international conferences and Dr Krug’s summaries of where we have been and where we are headed are always highlights of the meeting. We follow with selections from some of the best in global injury prevention research. These are papers we are confident that our readers would have enjoyed at the meeting. They include studies on road traffic injury, violence, vulnerable populations and the costs and outcomes of injury. We hope you will find these both informative and inspirational. Please share them widely within your networks.
Johnston BD. Inj Prev April 2015 Vol 21 No e1
Finally, it is with pleasure that we note that plans have been formalised to convene the 12th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, in Tampere, Finland on 18–21 September 2016, under the auspices of the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare and the cosponsoring WHO. The theme for Safety 2016—‘From research to implementation’—highlights the need to bridge the gap between what we know and what we do. This is a topic of great interest to the journal and its editorial board. We look forward to seeing you all in Tampere and would be delighted to consider papers on the topic of implementation of injury control interventions at any time! Twitter Follow Brian Johnston at @bdj8824 Competing interests None. Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
To cite Johnston BD. Inj Prev 2015;21:e1. Inj Prev 2015;21:e1. doi:10.1136/injuryprev-2015-041567
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Wren J, Allen K, Proffitt C, et al. What is the value and impact of the safety World Conference? Evaluators’ reflections of safety 2012. Inj Prev 2013;19:434–5. Krug E. Next steps to advance injury and violence prevention. Inj Prev 2015:21:e3–4.
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Safety 2014: global highlights in injury prevention Brian D Johnston I was very disappointed, along with many of you, when Safety 2014: the World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, scheduled to convene in Atlanta last year, was cancelled. These biennial meetings have provided the single best opportunity for members of our disparate and eclectic global community to come together, learn from each other and maintain momentum in the worldwide struggle against violence and injury. The gathering allows us to share new research, see new approaches to implementation and to influence the current vision and direction of the field. Given the wide range of professionals interested in injury control, there is always a challenge to present papers that reflect the scope of the discipline as well as to meet the needs of researchers, trainees, educators, policy makers, programme planners and advocates. Nevertheless, we seem to get it mostly right. Evaluation of the last World Conference was general favourable, with attendees able to identify the impact of the Correspondence to Dr Brian D Johnston, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Avenue – Box 359774, Seattle, WA 98104, USA; [email protected]
event on their career course, professional networks and prevention programme focus.1 When Safety 2014 was cancelled, the journal decided that we would try to replicate some of the experience that our readers would be missing. The result is this special online issue ‘Safety 2014— Global Highlights in Injury Prevention,’ to which we are pleased to offer timelimited open access. As we would expect at the in-person event, we lead off with perspective from Dr. Etienne Krug,2 WHO’s Director of the Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention. The WHO cosponsors these international conferences and Dr Krug’s summaries of where we have been and where we are headed are always highlights of the meeting. We follow with selections from some of the best in global injury prevention research. These are papers we are confident that our readers would have enjoyed at the meeting. They include studies on road traffic injury, violence, vulnerable populations and the costs and outcomes of injury. We hope you will find these both informative and inspirational. Please share them widely within your networks.
Johnston BD. Inj Prev April 2015 Vol 21 No e1
Finally, it is with pleasure that we note that plans have been formalised to convene the 12th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, in Tampere, Finland on 18–21 September 2016, under the auspices of the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare and the cosponsoring WHO. The theme for Safety 2016—‘From research to implementation’—highlights the need to bridge the gap between what we know and what we do. This is a topic of great interest to the journal and its editorial board. We look forward to seeing you all in Tampere and would be delighted to consider papers on the topic of implementation of injury control interventions at any time! Twitter Follow Brian Johnston at @bdj8824 Competing interests None. Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
To cite Johnston BD. Inj Prev 2015;21:e1. Inj Prev 2015;21:e1. doi:10.1136/injuryprev-2015-041567
REFERENCES 1
2
Wren J, Allen K, Proffitt C, et al. What is the value and impact of the safety World Conference? Evaluators’ reflections of safety 2012. Inj Prev 2013;19:434–5. Krug E. Next steps to advance injury and violence prevention. Inj Prev 2015:21:e3–4.
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