JH-IIRU's Road Safety Work Profiled in Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine

The Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit is profiled in the Fall 2015 issue of Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine, along with fellow road safety colleagues, including The Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) and in-country collaborators like the Hanoi School of Public Health.

In “Crossing to Safety,” writer Cathy Shufro traveled to Vietnam to talk to those directly affected by road traffic crashes, and in doing so, puts a human face on the epidemic that kills more than 1.2 million people every year. 100,000 people die in road traffic collisions every month.

JH-IIRU director, Dr. Adnan Hyder, credits the publication of the first Global Status Report on Road Safety in 2009 by the World Health Organization, for really bringing the “concrete numbers” of road traffic fatalities into the worldwide spotlight. Those numbers caught the attention of Michael Bloomberg, whose Philanthropies have so far funded two multi-million dollar projects, the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Program, which concluded in December 2014, and the recently-launched Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety.

JH-IIRU is dedicated to reducing rates of road traffic injuries around the world and working with Bloomberg Philanthropies and other partners to evaluate and implement road safety solutions where they are needed most.

The goal of the Road Safety Program is to save lives by providing evidence for stronger road safety interventions around the world.  It is equally important to increase awareness, with the help of stories like those in “Crossing to Safety,” of the devastating impact of road traffic injuries. 

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