Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit Attends the World Innovation Summit for Health

On November 29-30, 2016, Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU) faculty traveled to Doha, Qatar to attend the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) 2016. Drs. Adnan Hyder (director), Kate Allen (Coordinator for Middle East), and Amber Mehmood (Coordinator for EMS) were part of the delegation. More than 1,000 global leaders, including government officials and healthcare experts attended the two-day Summit. 

The Summit had eight research forums, including accountable care, autism, behavioral insights, cardiovascular disease, genomics in the gulf region and Islamic ethics, healthy populations, investing in health, and precision medicine. JH-IIRU faculty participated in several sessions and met colleagues working in health systems, ethics and health management. 

While in Qatar, JH-IIRU faculty met with collaborators from Hamad Medical Corporation. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss project updates for both Work-place-injury Unified Registry for Qatar (WURQ) and Young Kids in Safe Seats (Y-KISS). The team discussed current data collection activities, stakeholder engagement, training and challenges thus far. Lastly, the team discussed plans for the next year and potential proposals and publications. 

More information on the Summit can be found here.