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 s

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 re

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 viole

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

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

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.