Safety Science Seminar Series - July 2009
The NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre and the School of Risk and Safety Science are delighted to invite you to attend the 8th UNSW Safety Seminar Series entitled Research-to-Practice: Maximizing the Impact of Occupational Injury Research .
Our distinguished speaker for this seminar would be Dr Nancy Stout, Ed.D, Director of the Division of Safety Research, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
The seminar will be held on Thursday, 30th July 2009, 4:30pm-5:30pm at The Red Centre, Room 4034 on the campus of University of New South Wales.
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CHILD RISK, SAFETY AND INJURY PREVENTION WORKSHOP
The University of New South Wales Injury Risk Management Research Centre, Sydney Children's Hospital, Sydney Children's Hospital, Kidsafe NSW, the Commissioner for Children and Young People and the Children's Hospital at Westmead are delighted to invite you to attend a one day workshop on Child Risk, Safety and Injury Prevention.
The workshop is designed to build on the momentum of the World Health Organisation and UNICEF World Report on Child Injury Prevention and highlight the importance of child safety and injury prevention. See link to WHO report here
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/child/injury/world_report/en/index.html
The workshop will be held in Gallery Room 1 of the Scientia on the campus of the University of New South Wales, from 8.00 am to 5.00 pm, to be followed by a wine reception.
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Places are limited, so please complete the registration form and send to Danielle Wells by 5pm, Monday 6th April 2009. Her contact details are on the registration form.
Safety Science Seminar Series March 2009-
The NSW IRMRC, the School of Safety Sciences, and the Australasian College of Road Safety (ACRS) are delighted to invite you to attend the UNSW Safety Science Seminar entitled Safe System Approach to Road Safety – Australia and Beyond.
Our distinguished speaker for this seminar will be Eric Howard, Director of Strategic Safety Advisor Services.
Eric will discuss about the Safe System approach to road safety, how it was developed, and how this approach is being adopted in Australia and elsewhere in the world.
This seminar will be held on 30th March at Room 101, Law Building, UNSW 4:30pm-5:30pm.
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Safety Science Seminar Series April 2009-
The NSW IRMRC, the School of Safety Sciences, and the School of Mathematics and Statistics are delighted to invite you to attend the 6th UNSW Safety Science Seminar entitled Methods for Graphing, Modeling & Forecasting Spatio-Temporal Land-Use Patterns in Sub-Districts with Application to Data from Southern Thailand.
Our distinguished speaker for this seminar will be Professor Don McNeil, Emeritus Professor, Department of Statistics, Macquarie University.
Don McNeil became Professor Emeritus on retiring as Foundation Professor of Statistics at Macquarie University after 25 years of service. He is currently the research coordinator for the graduate program in Research Methodology at Prince of Songkla University in Thailand, where 24 PhD and 13 MSc students are currently enrolled. Don got his PhD in Statistics from the ANU and then served briefly at Johns Hopkins University and UWA before joining Princeton University as Associate Professor in Statistics and Research Statistician in the Office of Population Research from 1971-1976. His academic interests have included biostatistics and epidemiology, statistical graphics, financial modelling, research methodology and web-database engineering, and current interests include land-use modelling and mortality forecasting. Before retiring Don McNeil was a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Member of the International Statistical Institute, and a Foundation Member of the Australasian Epidemiological Association.
This seminar will be held on 3th April at Room 130, The Australian School of Business , UNSW with reception starts at 4pm and followed by the seminar at 4:30pm.
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Copy of Presentation from Safety Science Seminar Series -
When a Lion Eats Your Pharmacist: Implications of Task-Shifting on Patient & Provider Safety in the Developing World by Dr Tina Brock (Jan 09)
The audio recording of the presentation is available on http://lectopia.elearning.unsw.edu.au/ilectures/ilectures.lasso?ut=1123
The Ride of Your Life: The Risks and Hazards of Ambulance Transport by Dr Nadine Levick (Dec 08)
Click here for the copy of the handouts.
The recorded presentation is also availabe on https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2008-12-01.1509.M.6807EDF501445F93100C75F0B992C9.vcr
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