Dear members,

We are less than 30 days away from the largest annual European public health event, the 16th European Public Health Conference 2023 - "Our Food, Our Health, Our Health: A Sustainable Future for Humanity" to the beautiful city of Dublin, Ireland, from 8-11 November 2023. 

Please mind the following:

• Registration is open HERE 
• Venue: The 16th EPH Conference will be held in The Convention Centre Dublin HERE 
• Accommodation: Are you interested in attending the upcoming EPH conference in Dublin, Ireland but you're finding it hard to find affordable accommodation? We are facilitating an opportunity for members of EUPHAnxt to meet and potentially room share during the conference. Please submit your information before October 15th, 2023. HERE
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OUR SECTION EVENTS DURING THE 16th EPH 2023 CONFERENCE

Our section organizes 2 WORKSHOPS, 1 JOIN THE NETWORK meeting and several presentations on injury prevention. We encourage young researchers, community workers, policy makers, academics, and public health practitioners to register and join the discussion on injury prevention and safety promotion. Don't miss out on this opportunity to engage with leading experts, exchange knowledge, and contribute to shaping the future of public health.
 

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Workshop 1: Quality assessment in perioperative care: Challenges and lessons learned from the SAFEST project
Friday 10th November 2023, Dublin Time: 11:40-12:40, Liffey B

Organisers:

• EUPHA Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion
• Avedis Donabedian Research Institute (FAD)
• Spanish Anaesthesia and Reanimation Safety Incident Reporting System (SENSAR)
• National School of Public Health – NOVA, University of Lisbon (NSPH-NOVA)
• SAFEST Consortium

Chairperson(s): 
Maria Papadakaki (EUPHA-INJ), Paulo Sousa (Portugal)

Presentations:

• Perioperative patient safety recommendations: best practices derived from a systematic review and a multidisciplinary expert consensus
  Ismael Martinez-Nicolas (Spain)
• Transforming perioperative patient safety clinical guidelines recommendations into measurable standards: insights from the SAFEST project
  Claudia Valli (Spain)
• Development of a Core Outcome Set for Patient Safety in Perioperative Care: Insights from the SAFEST Project
  Ana Beatriz Nunes (Portugal)

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Workshop 2: Data, tools and methodologies on injury burden in Europe: current limitations and future directions
Friday 10th November 2023, Dublin Time: 15:10-16:10, Liffey Meeting Room 2

Organisers:

• EUPHA Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion
• EUPHA Public Health Epidemiology
• EUPHA Public Health Economics
• Eurosafe / IDB Network 

Chairperson(s): 
Maria Papadakaki (EUPHA-INJ), João Vasco Santos (EUPHA-ECO)

Presentations:

• A new Norwegian Injury Registration System as a starting point to assess the burden of injuries in Norway.
  Johan Lund (EUPHA-INJ)
• Barriers in the implementation of burden of disease estimates in Belgium and potential solutions
  Robby De Pauw (Belgium)
• Data collection and analysis on the burden of injuries: Lessons learned from the IDB network
  Robert Bauer (Austria)
• Methodological challenges in collecting and analysing data on child unintentional injuries: Insights from the CHILD Vigilance project (CHIVI) on parents’ attitudes and practices
  Tatiana Alves (Portugal)

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JOIN THE NETWORK Injury prevention and safety promotion 
Friday 10th November 2023, Dublin Time: 10:30-11:30

Our "Join the Network" meeting will allow us to have an open discussion, share insights and collectively work towards injury prevention and safety promotion. We encourage you to join this meeting and bring along your research ideas and priorities, as we want to make sure that all voices are heard and all individuals are represented in the section’s activities.

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OUR SECTION'S INVOLVEMENT IN EU-FUNDED PROJECTS
EUPHA INJ section is involved in the Scientific Advisory Groups of the following EU projects:

• SAFEST (HERE)
• The project will look at the entire journey before, during, and after surgery (often referred to as perioperative safety and care). Especially considering how several studies have shown that most adverse events linked to surgery occur outside the operating room. The project aims at: a) identifying and agreeing on a unified set of perioperative practices based on evidence, and b) promoting their implementation across Europe involving healthcare professionals, patients, and other stakeholders.
• VIPROM (Victim Protection in Medicine, HERE).
• The project aims at developing curricula on domestic violence tailored to the medical profession groups such as physicians, nurses, midwives, dentists, other healthcare professionals, and medical students in close cooperation with medical faculties, hospitals, research organisations, medical educators and victim protection organisations in Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy and Sweden. The goal is to provide sustainable, organisationally embedded, and institutionally recognised training for professionals from different medical fields. Train-the-trainer programs will be conducted so that the curricula developed in VIPROM can be implemented in pilot trainings in each of the stakeholder groups with high quality.
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INTERESTING NEWS

• The Violence Prevention Information System (Violence Info) collates published scientific information on the main types of interpersonal violence. (World Health Organization). More information: HERE
• Implementation of the Second Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030 Note by the Secretary-General (September 2023) More information: HERE
• Rapporto ISTISAN 23/12 - European Injury DataBase (EU-IDB): data analysis 2020. More information: HERE
• Summary Report: First in-person meeting of the Global Network of Heads of National Road Safety Agencies Stockholm, Sweden. June 28-29, 2023. More information: HERE
• Workplace Injury Prevention Strategy 2023 – 2028; Discussion Paper. (April 19, 2023). More information: HERE 
• Occupant Restraints: A Road Safety Manual for Decision-Makers and Practitioners / A revised edition of the occupant restraints guide for policy-makers and practitioners (6 March, 2023). More information: HERE   
• Advocating for emergency care: a guide for nongovernmental organizations (22 February 2023). More information: HERE
• New WHO guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent child maltreatment & enhance parent-child relationships now available (10 February, 2023). More information: HERE 
• Accelerating action on global drowning prevention, World Health Organization (30 January, 2023) More information: HERE  
• News from CDCInjury: “What Works for Community-Dwelling Older Adults”. 4th edition of the compendium on evidence-based fall intervention programmes, with 9 new interventions for community-dwelling older adults.  (January 2023) More information: HERE   
• Documenting Road Safety: A guide for governments and lead agencies a step-by-step process for documenting successes. (January, 2023) More information: HERE
• New report on “Tackling Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)” describes issues, solutions & need for urgent action (January, 2023). More information: HERE
• News from EUROSAFE - Key Actions. More information: HERE  

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CONFERENCES ON INJURY PREVENTION & SAFETY PROMOTION

• 11th European Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (EU-Safety 2023), Reykjavik, Iceland  5 & 6 October. More information: HERE 
• Safety 2024 – the 15th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion -  to be held in Delhi, India from September 2-4, 2024, and hosted in partnership with injury-related World Health Organization Collaborating Centres in the country. More information: HERE 

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OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES & EVENTS

• 2023 IASR/AFSP International Summit on Suicide Research, October 15-18, 2023 Barcelona, Spain.  More information: HERE 
• 11th International ICSC. 15-17 November 2023. Hague The Netherlands. More information: HERE
• 23rd World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, 27-30 November 2023 — Sydney Australia. More information: HERE    
• The 7th IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport will take place in Monaco from 29 February to 2 March 2024. More information: HERE
• 23rd European Congress of Trauma and Emergency Surgery (ECTES), 28-30 April 2024, Lisbon, Portugal.  Abstract submission deadline 26 October 2023. More information: HERE 
• 21st ESSKA Congress, European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy, 08-10 May 2024, Milan, Italy. Abstract submission deadline 14 September 2023. More information: HERE 
• 25th EFORT ANNUAL CONGRESS 22-24 May 2024, Hamburg, Germany. Abstract submission deadline 15 November 2023. More Information: HERE 
• ICTTP 2024 / Bar-Ilan Tel Aviv, Israel, 19-22 August 2024. More information: HERE
• World Safety and Operations Conference (WSOC) Hanoi, Vietnam 19 - 21 September 2024. More information: HERE 
• The 9th International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention. October 22-24, 2024. Michigan, USA. More information: HERE    

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INTERESTING STUDIES

• Kalbas, Y., Klingebiel, F. K. L., Halvachizadeh, S., Kumabe, Y., Scherer, J., Teuben, M., ... & Pape, H. C. (2023). Developments in the understanding of staging a “major fracture” in polytrauma: results from an initiative by the polytrauma section of ESTES. European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, 1-13. More information: HERE  
• Knetsch, J., & Watts, K. (2023). What is the potential of compensation funds for addressing COVID-related personal injury?. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice, 1-22. More information: HERE
• Opriessnig, E., Luze, H., Smolle, C., Draschl, A., Zrim, R., Giretzlehner, M., ... & Nischwitz, S. P. (2023). Epidemiology of burn injury and the ideal dressing in global burn care–Regional differences explored. Burns, 49(1), 1-14. More information: HERE  
• Wyper GMA, Assuncao R, Fletcher E, et al. The increasing significance of disease severity in a burden of disease framework. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 2023;51(2):296-300. doi:10.1177/14034948211024478More information: HERE  
• Ekstrand, J., Bengtsson, H., Waldén, M., Davison, M., Khan, K. M., & Hägglund, M. (2023). Hamstring injury rates have increased during recent seasons and now constitute 24% of all injuries in men’s professional football: the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study from 2001/02 to 2021/22. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 57(5), 292-298. More information: HERE  
• Stassen, H. S., Atalik, T., Haagsma, J. A., Wolvius, E. B., Verdonschot, R. J. C. G., & Rozeboom, A. V. J. (2023). Effect of helmet use on maxillofacial injuries due to bicycle and scooter accidents: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis. International journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery. More information: HERE
• Spronk, I., van Baar, M.E., Verheij, R.A. et al. The burden of disease of fatal and non-fatal burn injuries for the full spectrum of care in the Netherlands. Arch Public Health 81, 3 (2023). More information: HERE

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

• Road safety: studies, works or mixed, CEF-T-2023-SAFEMOBCOEN-ROADSAFETY-WORKS; Call for proposal; Type of action: CEF Infrastructure Projects; Deadline model: single-stage; Opening date: 26 September 2023; Deadline date: 30 January 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time. More information: HERE
• Scenario-based safety assurance of CCAM and related HMI in a dynamically evolving transport system (CCAM Partnership) HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01-02; Horizon Europe (HORIZON); Type of action: HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions; Deadline model: single-stage; Opening date: 07 May 2024; Deadline date: 5 September 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time. More information: HERE  
• A new framework to improve traffic safety culture in the EUHORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01-12; Horizon Europe (HORIZON); Type of action: HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions; Deadline model: single-stage; Opening date: 07 May 2024; Deadline date: 5 September 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time. More information: HERE 

In case you are preparing a new proposal for funding, feel free to contact us and invite us to contribute as partners. We are open to new research ideas and applications in and around our core areas of injury prevention and safety promotion.

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DO NOT FORGET

We invite you to submit your ideas HERE or Contact us HERE to offer you various ways of engagement in our section events.

Best regards,
Maria Papadakaki and the EUPHA INJ team
LaHeRS & PHC-HMU, Hellenic Mediterranean University

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