International Programme Committee Members

Burns, Drowns and Falls

• Prof Shanthi Ameratunga, University of Auckland, Australia
• Dr Alfredo Celis, University of Guadalajara, Mexico
• Mike Peck, Arizona Burns Center, USA
• Dr Ashley van Niekerk, Medical Research Council, South Africa
• Dr Maria Benyi,National Centre for Public Health, Hungary
• Dr Chris Todd, University of Manchester, UK

Child Injury

• Dr Mick Ballesteros, Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention (CDC), USA
• Dr Anuradha Bose, Deaprtment of Community Health, India
• Prof Rosa Gofin, Braun School of Public Health, Jerusalem
• Prof. Lucy Laflamme, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
• Sylvain Leduc, National Public Health Institute of Quebec, Quebec
• Dr Mabel Nakitto, Injury Control Centre, Uganda
• Prof. Joan Ozanne- Smith, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Australia
• Prof Veronika Benesova, Child Injury Prevention Board, Czech Republic
• Joanne Vincenten, Eurosafe, Netherlands
• Luciana O'Reilly, SafeKids, Brazil

Child and Elder Abuse

• Alex Butchart, WHO, Geneva
• Prof Tozija Fimka, Ministry of Health, FDR Macedonia
• Maria Herczog, Association for Family Child Youth, Hungary
• Sirkka Perttu, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Prof Thomas Goergen, German Police University, Germany
• Isabel Iborra, Queen Sofia Centre for Studies on Violence, Spain
  

Consumer Safety

• Bruce J Farquhar, Consumer Product Safety Commission, USA
• Dr Mathew Varghese, St.Stephen's Hospital, Dehli, India
• Jan Deconinck, PROSAFE, Belgium
• Dr.Ian Scott, Deakin University, Australia

Disaster Management

• Charlie Branas, Penn University, USA
• Dr Steve Hargarten, Emergency Medicine, USA
• Dr Charles Mock, WHO, Switzerland
• Dr Junaid Razzak, Road Traffic Injuries Research Network, Pakistan
• Dr Andres Rubiano, NHeiva City University Hospital, Columbia
• Dr Thomas Gell, EUROSAFE, Sweden

Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence

• Dr Bontha V Babu, Indian Council of Medical Research, India
• Prof Debra Houry, Emory University, USA
• Dr Christopher Mikton, WHO, Switzerland
• Prof Birute Struckcinskiene, Klaipeda University, Lithuania
• Dr Claudia Garcia Moreno, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, WHO, Switzerland
• Dr Massimo Mirandola, Regional Centre for Health Promotion, Italy

Occupational Safety

• Prof Corinne Peek-Asa, Injury Prevention Research Center, USA
• Prof Jorma Saari, Finnish Institute of Occupational Safety, Finland
• Prof Gordon Smith, National Study Center for Trauma and EMS, USA
• Dr Hamid Soori, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Patient Safety

• Dr Manjul Joshipura, Academy of Traumatology, India

Road Safety

• Prof Babuntunde Solagberu, Lagos State University, Nigeria
• Dr Ann Dellinger, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
• Dr Geetam Tiwari, Indian Institute of Technology, India
• Dr Wilson Odero, Maseno University, Kenya
• Dr Arturo Cervantes, National Center on Injury Prevention, Mexico
• Dr Maria Segui- Gomez, John Hopkins University, USA

Safer Communities

• Pam Albany, NSW Health Department, Australia
• Dr Carolyn Coggan, Safe Communities Foundation, New Zealand
• Prof Maria Isabel Gutierrez, WHO Collaborating Centre, Columbia
• Dr Børge Ytterstad, Institute for Community Medicine, Norway

Self Harm and Suicide

• Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar, International Association for Suicide Prevention, Australia

Sport and Leisure Injury

• Othmar Brügger, Eurosafe, Netherlands
• Prof Caroline Finch, University of Ballarat, Australia
• Prof Claude Goulet, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
• Dr Dawn Comstock, Centre for Injury Research and Policy, Ohio, USA

Surveillance/burden of injury

• Kidist Bartolomeos, WHO, Switzerland
• Dr François Belanger, French Institute for Public Health Surveillance, France
• Lois A Fingerhut, International Collaborative Effort on Injury Statistics, USA
• Prof Gopalakrishna Gururaj, WHO Collaborating Centre, India
• Dr Rupert Kisser, Eurosafe, Austria
• Duan Lei Lei, WHO Collaberating Centre, China
• Prof Joan Ozanne-Smith, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Australia
• Dr Kunuz Abdella, WHO Ethiopia Office, Ethiopia
• Dr Belinda Gabbe, Monash University, Australia
• Dr Kavi Bhalla, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
• Victoria Espitia, CDC, USA
• Richard Matzopoulos, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa

Youth Violence

• Prof Andrés Villaveces, UNC Injury Prevention Research Centre, USA
• Kauko Aromaa, European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, Finland
• Dr Nancy Cardia, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Dr Dinesh Sethi, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Italy
• Dr Jim Mercy, CDC, USA