Podcasts by Injury Prevention podcast

From Canada to Sweden. Effective roadside barriers, plus electric cars: opportunities vs safety cost from 2022-04-06T21:47:39

"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...

Changing the perception: diversity and representation within academic Injury Prevention from 2022-03-01T13:04:27

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...

"I like being a big fish in a small pond", an epidemiologist in an unconventional field from 2022-02-02T20:44:39

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 diffe...

How to produce meaningful research and how to translate it into practice? from 2022-01-05T18:15:46

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, M...

Helmet type, road safety, covid-19 lockdowns. An oromaxillofacial surgeon preventing injuries in KL from 2021-12-01T17:14:41

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 biom...

Violence epidemiology with Dr Katelyn Jetelina from 2021-11-02T17:43:58

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 them...

Data Science: new approaches and applications to injury prevention from 2021-10-06T11:36:32

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 d...

A surprising path to the Global Road Safety Partnership from 2021-09-02T11:03:53

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 w...

AI and big data in injury prevention from 2021-08-03T18:56:59

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 ...

Preventing occupational injury in Indigenous and First Nations people from 2021-06-30T19:00:14

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, bus...

Night-time subsidised rideshares and prevention of road traffic injuries from 2021-06-02T16:35:38

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...

Involving public and politicians in Injury Prevention from 2021-05-05T17:51:03

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 p...

ICD-10-CM Injury Epidemiology and Surveillance Methods from 2021-03-30T19:21:48

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 Ed...

Quality data and public policy: understanding the causes of causes from 2021-03-04T13:21:57

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-...

Cycling: testing the concept of “Safety in Density" in artificial societies from 2021-02-03T19:43:11

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 wit...

A public health issue and the practice-based knowledge from 2021-01-06T23:22:36

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 i...

Lessons from Emeritus Professor Barry Pless, founding editor from 2020-12-02T18:05:03

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...

Bringing clinical practice into injury prevention research from 2020-11-04T12:48:41

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 outcom...

Digging deeper into the heterogeneity of injuries from 2020-09-24T17:45:54

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 o...

Understanding your market for effective injury prevention from 2020-09-02T17:33:04

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...

Opioids, road safety, and the effectiveness of public policy as an injury prevention tool from 2020-08-05T12:32:12

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 Inju...

Nationwide public health responses: what can we learn from COVID-19 to prevent injury from 2020-07-01T17:11:34

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...

Engineering health and sustainable mobility in the post-COVID-19 era from 2020-06-03T16:16:50

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 ...

Dr Margie Peden - from nursing and clinical practice to global health from 2020-05-06T12:28:54

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...

Road crash injury risks: dangerous vehicles and gender disparities from 2020-03-30T16:27:24

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 pape...

Overcoming the fragmentation of the injury prevention field from 2020-03-03T12:34:11

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, Melb...

What is Injury Surveillance? from 2020-02-04T11:20:58

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 preve...

Road safety and violence prevention - interview with Dr Andres Villaveces from 2020-01-02T14:08:52

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 ab...

Violence and Injury Research - why does it matter? from 2019-12-04T17:34:37

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 ...

A vision of safer cities from 2019-11-06T17:21:21

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 P...

Abe Bergman, paediatrician with a lifetime in injury prevention… and many stories from 2019-10-02T13:34:13

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...

Firearms injury as a public health problem in the US: origins and challenges from 2019-08-28T12:39:23

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 c...

Safe spaces for children to be active from 2019-07-30T12:21:43

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 deg...

Redesigning traffic for people and the environment. Professor Ian Roberts on his shift to prevention from 2019-06-28T11:58:21

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 c...

Mark Stevenson on mobile phones, big data and a new era in Injury Prevention from 2019-05-23T16:48:27

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 Preventio...

“Injury Prevention was an accident”. Putting injury in the national agenda in India from 2019-04-29T16:24:48

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 I...

Road safety and communication. Why Professor Martha Híjar chose research over public service from 2019-04-01T16:31:18

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. S...

China: the effects of economic growth in injury from 2019-02-28T18:52:52

With exponential economic growth in the past decades, China has also experienced a growth in injuries. This is the subject of a special issue of Injury Prevention, covering a broad range of topics ...

Poverty and children's burn injury. How common citizens help shape Injury Prevention in South Africa from 2019-02-05T13:11:41

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 U...

Injury and violence: achieving population level change from 2018-12-20T11:40:35

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 ...

Firearms injury. Professor David Studdert on mass shootings, health law and changing careers from 2018-12-05T16:23:51

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...

My top papers are… Rachid Salmi on escaping tigers, a bridge of death and child head trauma from 2018-11-01T08:48:27

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...

Structural housing elements associated with home injuries in children from 2016-05-18T14:30:59

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://in...

Spatial analysis of paediatric swimming pool submersions by housing type from 2015-09-09T16:30:09

Drowning is a major cause of unintentional childhood death. Along with colleagues, Rohit P Shenoi, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Texas, investigated the relationship bet...

Using the Haddon matrix: introducing the third dimension from 2015-07-23T15:35:04

William Haddon Jr developed his conceptual model, the Haddon matrix, by applying basic principles of public health to the problem of traffic safety. In 1998, Carol Runyan expanded on his work with ...

Looking back at building the evidence base for safe and active bicycling from 2015-02-06T15:18:26

As Injury Prevention turns 20 we're taking a look back at some of the most influential papers we've published in our Anniversary Archives, starting with Fred Rivara et al's “Epidemiology of bicycle...

The health care burden of illicit synthetic drug use from 2014-11-05T16:53:45

The Minnesota Department of Health conducted an exploratory epidemiologic investigation into the health care burden of illicit synthetic drug (ISD) use in Duluth, Minnesota. Staff reviewed medica...

Patterns of vulnerability to non-fatal injuries in Sudan from 2014-11-05T12:16:36

Successful injury prevention requires identification and targeting of particularly vulnerable groups, but little is known about injury vulnerability patterns in Sudan. Safa Abdalla, Sudanese Publ...

Threat of paediatric hyperthermia in an enclosed vehicle from 2014-09-05T16:40:32

In the USA, 384 children died due to hyperthermia between 2003 and 2012 while unattended in an enclosed vehicle. Paediatric vehicular hyperthermia persists as a highly preventable form of heat-rela...

The Sports Injury Registry from 2014-08-21T15:08:17

This podcast focuses on the collection of high school athlete sports injury data by the University of South Florida Sports Medicine and Athletic Related Trauma Institute (SMART). SMART developed...

Analysis of the quantity and quality of published RCTs related to injury prevention in China from 2014-07-03T09:04:42

Brian Johnston talks to Guoqing Hu, Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Central South University, China, about what his analysis of injury prevention resea...

Preventing deaths and injuries from house fires from 2014-03-24T16:54:54

Brian Johnston, IP Editor in Chief, talks to Gregory Istre and Mary McCoy, Injury Prevention Center of Greater Dallas, about their latest research into the impact of community-based smoke alarm dis...

Sports concussion: Issues and controversies from 2014-02-20T17:01:54

Sports concussion, especially among youth, has become a topic of major interest to parents, athletes, coaches and physicians. While much is known about the topic, there is a great deal that is not...

A year on from Sandy Hook: Why is US funding for research on gun violence still being blocked? from 2013-12-13T11:16:06

December 14, 2013, is the one year anniversary of the shootings at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newton, Connecticut, USA, in which 20 young children were massacred. Dr Fred Rivara, professor ...

IP podcast - Economic Disparity And Childhood Mortality Due To Injury In Europe from 2013-11-22T10:38:29

Read the full research online: http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/19/5/311

Brian Johnston, IP editor, talks to Mathilde Sengoelge from the Department of Public Health Sciences, at the...

Acute occupational injury among adolescent farmworkers from South Texas from 2013-08-13T14:04:58

Brian Johnston, IP Editor in Chief, talks to Eva Shipp, from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Rural Public Health in Texas, about her latest research into injury...

Greening vacant lots reduces violent injury from 2013-07-12T09:11:32

In Philadelphia, the local authority has undertaken a project to green vacant lots, with the aim of improving the city.

Research by Charles Branas, a professor of epidemiology at the Unive...

Risk and protective behaviours for residential carbon monoxide poisoning from 2013-04-23T15:09:32

Unintentional, non-fire-related carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a leading cause of poisoning death and injury in the USA. Most residential poisonings are preventable, so how to get people to a...

Data sharing for prevention from 2013-04-23T15:08:14

Can emergency department data sharing help prevent violence and alcohol-related harm? Editor Brain Johnston talks to Karen Hughes (behavioural epidemiologist, Centre for Public Health, Liverpool...

Barriers to implementing falls prevention programmes in senior centres from 2013-04-23T15:07:12

IP editor Brian Johnston talks to Ciara Zachary (postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Health Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins University) about her study looking at barriers to implem...

Inequality and injury prevention policy from 2013-04-23T15:05:33

Tackling inequality in health is an important part of the public policy agenda in many countries; however, many interventions that could improve overall health might also increase inequality. Listen

Mental models from 2013-04-23T15:04:12

Editor Brian Johnston talks to Laurel Austin (professor in the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School) about using mental models to help prevent injuries a...

It was a freak accident from 2013-04-23T15:03:16

Brian Johnston, IP editor, talks to Katherine Smith, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, about her recent study examining the use by the US media of the expression ‘freak accident’ i...

Triangulating case-finding tools for patient safety surveillence from 2013-04-23T15:02:13

Brian Johnston, Injury Prevention’s editor, talks to Jennifer Taylor from the Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, about this month’s editor’s choice.

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Preventing bath water scalds from 2013-04-23T15:01:10

Thermostatic mixer valves - which keep water delivered to the bath below a maximum temperature - can prevent scalds. But would adding them to new build houses and those undergoing a change in us...

Under five injury in the million deaths study from 2013-04-23T15:00:15

Brian Johnston, Injury Prevention’s editor, talks to Jagnoor Jagnoor from the George Institute in Australia about this month’s editor’s choice.

India’s million deaths study used cross sect...

Cycle tracks versus the street from 2013-04-23T14:59:09

Although most people prefer to bicycle on facilities separated from motor traffic, as with cycle tracks, guidance in the USA has suggested that these separated facilities are more dangerous than...

Improving child safety in motor vehicles - a safe communities approach from 2013-04-23T14:57:46

This month’s editor’s choice reports success in using the World Health Organisation safe communities model approach to increase child restraint in motor vehicles. Brian Johnston asks lead author...

Agricultural injuries from 2013-04-23T14:56:51

In this month’s podcast, IP editor Brian Johnston talks to one of the authors on this month’s editor’s choice, Will Pickett, from the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen’s Uni...

Cultural translation from 2013-04-23T14:55:59

In this month’s podcast, IP editor Brian Johnston talks to Flaura Winston, University of Pennsylvania and Joan Ozanne-Smith, Monash University. They discuss their research into the efficacy and...

Firearms regulation and male suicide in Quebec from 2013-04-23T14:54:48

Brian Johnston, IP’s editor, talks to Mathieu Gagne, The Institut national de santé publique du Québec, about the effect firearms regulation introduced in 1991 has had on the rate of method-spec...

Reporting on road traffic injury in Ghanaian newspapers from 2013-04-23T14:53:35

Brian Johnston, IP’s editor, talks to Isaac Kofi Yankson from the CSIR-Building and Road Research Institute, Ghana, and Beth E Ebel from the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Uni...

Behavioural science in injury prevention from 2013-04-23T14:52:14

Brian Johnston, IP’s editor, talks to Flaura Winston, an associate editor with IP, about applying best practice in behavioural science to injury prevention. See also: A practical approach for ap...