Injury Prevention Podcast

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

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

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 of workers to the safety practices of management and beyond. Dr Newnam provides a road map for people wanting to learn how to make research matter.
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Helmet type, road safety, covid-19 lockdowns. An oromaxillofacial surgeon preventing injuries in KL

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 public health policy.
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Violence epidemiology with Dr Katelyn Jetelina

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 an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
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Relevant papers related to this podcast:
56 The impact of intimate partner violence on breast and cervical cancer treatment among patients in an integrated, safety-net setting - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/Suppl_1/A4.2
Changes in intimate partner violence during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/27/1/93
Factors associated with civilian and police officer injury during 10 years of officer-involved shooting incidents - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/6/509
Gradual escalation of use-of-force reduces police officer injury - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/1/35
111 The impact urbanization has on law enforcement stress during traumatic calls for service - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/26/Suppl_1/A54.1

Data Science: new approaches and applications to injury prevention

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 the synthetic control method - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl_1/i60
- Can the provision of a home help service for the elderly population reduce the incidence of fall-related injuries? A quasi-experimental study of the community-level effects on hospital admissions in Swedish municipalities - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/22/6/412
- The effect of the transition from the ninth to the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases on external cause registration of injury morbidity in Sweden - https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/21/3/189
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A surprising path to the Global Road Safety Partnership

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 with the Global Road Safety Partnership International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Read more about road safety: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/
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AI and big data in injury prevention

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

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.

Night-time subsidised rideshares and prevention of road traffic injuries

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 Professor of Evidence-Based Intervention and Policy Evaluation, Research fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, about the editor’s choice paper of the month titled “Assessing the impact of a local community subsidised rideshare programme on road traffic injuries: an evaluation of the Evesham Saving Lives programme” and available here: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/27/3/232.
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Involving public and politicians in Injury Prevention

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 Prevention: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/24/5/321
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