Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit Participates in the 24th Meeting of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration

On March 17-18, 2017, Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU) assistant scientist, Dr. Qingfeng Li, participated in the 24^th Meeting of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC). JH-IIRU is a member of the UNRSC since inception. More than 90 people from about 70 organizations attended the meeting held in Bangkok, Thailand. The meeting was hosted by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).

The meeting had five main objectives: to discuss the implementation of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and the World Health Assembly (WHA) resolutions; to discuss activities required to meet the road safety related sustainable development goals; to update the UNRSC terms of reference; to discuss current and future activities of the UNRSC project groups and to review membership requests and provide updates on UNRSC partner activities.

The meeting consisted of several sessions, including Safer Road Users, Post-Crash Response and the Monitoring and Evaluation of the Decade of Action. During the Safer Road Users session, Dr. Li presented a snapshot of the latest Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) monitoring and evaluation findings for Shanghai, China. Dr. Li also served as co-chair of the session, Monitoring and Evaluation of the Decade of Action, alongside Dr. Margie Peden of the World Health Organization. Dr. Peden discussed voluntary road safety targets, the Save LIVES package and recent trends in global road traffic fatalities.

Read more about the meeting.