Join us on 13 June for our Global Health Forum with a focus this month on the burden of trauma due to road traffic injury and how big data is helping to improve insight on this topic worldwide.
Global fatality from road traffic collisions outstrips combined deaths from TB, malaria and HIV/AIDS. With 90% of morbidity and mortality occurring in LMICs and costing an estimated 3% of GDP, the sustainable development goals include aims to reduce these injuries by 50% by 2020. Emerging methods in big data analysis are providing better understanding of the nature of road traffic collisions, permitting the design of better prevention strategies and response systems for resulting injury.
This Forum will highlight some of the directions currently being pursued in academic projects at Imperial and with other international partners.
Speakers include:
- Dr Donald Redelmeier, Senior Scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Trauma, Emergency & Critical Care Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute
- Dr Seema Yalamanchili, Clinical Research Fellow and Trauma Surgeon, Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare Trust
- Prof. Mark Wilson, Clinical Professor in Pre-hospital Care and Consultant Neurosurgeon, Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare Trust