Injury and Violence Prevention as the Catalyst for a New Vision for Public Health

Public health has made our lives safer—but it often works behind the scenes, without our knowledge, that is, "while we are sleeping." Dr. Hemenway chose this as the title of his book on injury and violence prevention successes, published in 2009. In this session, Dr. Hemenway will describe the journey of injury and violence prevention practitioners to illuminate the wide range of tools from multiple disciplines that results in effective and sustainable injury prevention and risk reduction efforts. This session will illustrate through example, some of the challenges that injury prevention policy has faced in the United States over the last several decades, successes and failures, lessons learned, and new multidisciplinary and multisectoral approaches to injury prevention policy for sustainable change.