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Carol W Runyan, MPH, PhD, UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chase Hall, CB#7505, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7505 and Stephen W. Marshall, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, and Injury Prevention Research Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB#7505, Chase Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7505, 919-966-2251, smarshall@unc.edu.
Dr. Patricia Fossum Waller (1932-2003) was an injury control pioneer whose contributions provide valuable lessons for others in the field. This overview highlights her remarkable contributions in bridging traffic safety and public health, and attempts to place them in the context of her background in behavioral research, and the future potential of cross-disciplinary collaborations in injury prevention.
We discuss two broad themes in Dr. Waller’s research career: 1) the integration of public health concepts into highway safety, in an effort to create a highway safety research agenda focused on human factors and societal factors, and, 2) the identification of successful elements from highway safety research, and an effort to apply these “lessons learned” to injury problems outside the highway safety field. These themes are discussed with reference to specific case examples from Dr. Waller’s career.
Throughout her career, Dr. Waller remained firmly committed to furthering an interdisciplinary perspective in highway safety, public health, behavior science, and injury control. We discuss specific areas within injury control that may be amenable to innovative, interdisciplinary endeavors of the nature that Dr. Waller championed.
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Keywords: Injury Prevention, Motor Vehicles
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.
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