PODCAST: Leadership in injury prevention, with Professor Fred Rivara

PODCAST: Leadership in injury prevention, with Professor Fred Rivara

By: Alexandra de Leon Date: November 3rd, 2022

Originally posted to BMJ Talk Medicine’s SoundCloud.

In this month’s British Medical Journal podcast, Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Dr. Rod McClure​, talks with Professor Fred Rivara, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, School of Medicine. They explore what is unique about Injury Prevention as a field, and where this field integrates with the more general world of public health. They also discuss leadership in injury prevention and the major challenges ahead.

Some of Professor Fred Rivara’s latest papers:

• A Qualitative study on diverse perspectives and identities of firearm owners – injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/5/434
• Concussion education for youth athletes using Pre-Game Safety Huddles: a cluster-randomised controlled trial – injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/earl…-2022-044665
• Predictors of health-related quality of life following injury in childhood and adolescence: a pooled analysis – injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/4/301
• Association of state-level intoxicated driving laws with firearm homicide and suicide – injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/1/32
• Age, period and cohort effects in firearm homicide and suicide in the USA, 1983–2017 – injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/27/4/344