Injury Prevention Podcast

Injury Prevention Podcast

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.

Episodes

Reporting at Safety 2022: all shades of Injury Prevention represented

November 30, 2022 • 14 mins
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 o...

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Leadership in injury prevention, with Professor Fred Rivara

November 2, 2022 • 26 mins
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 R...

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Collaboration in Injury Prevention, with Pamela Fuselli

September 29, 2022 • 27 mins
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.

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

August 31, 2022 • 33 mins
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-prev...

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Research at the interface, with Professor Flaura Winston, paediatrician

August 2, 2022 • 33 mins
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 b...

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

July 6, 2022 • 39 mins
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...

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

June 9, 2022 • 29 mins
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, Behavio...

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

May 3, 2022 • 24 mins
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 Sch...

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

April 6, 2022 • 28 mins
"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 conv...

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Changing the perception: diversity and representation within academic Injury Prevention

March 1, 2022 • 23 mins
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...

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

February 2, 2022 • 23 mins
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 ...

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

January 5, 2022 • 20 mins
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 ...

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

December 1, 2021 • 18 mins
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 pub...

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Violence epidemiology with Dr Katelyn Jetelina

November 2, 2021 • 19 mins
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 ...

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Data Science: new approaches and applications to injury prevention

October 6, 2021 • 17 mins
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 ...

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A surprising path to the Global Road Safety Partnership

September 2, 2021 • 23 mins
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 ...

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AI and big data in injury prevention

August 3, 2021 • 21 mins
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.

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Preventing occupational injury in Indigenous and First Nations people

June 30, 2021 • 13 mins

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.

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Night-time subsidised rideshares and prevention of road traffic injuries

June 2, 2021 • 15 mins
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 Prof...

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Involving public and politicians in Injury Prevention

May 5, 2021 • 16 mins
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...

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