Academics to Action: Advancing Road Safety for Children and Teens

November 15, 2012
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
College of Public Health Building, Room S-030

Dr. Flaura Winston, MD, PhD, professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and the scientific director of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia delivered a talk, "Academics to Action: Advancing Road Safety for Children and Teens," on Thursday, November 15 at 3 p.m. in the College of Public Health Building, Room S-030. 

Dr. Winston is a board-certified pediatrician, biomechanical engineer and public health researcher. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on traffic injury, specifically teen driver safety, child occupant protection and promotion of recovery after child injury. 

In addition to serving as the Scientific Director of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, she is the Director of the National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, the Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies and the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates.

This Forkenbrock event was sponored by the UI Public Policy Center and the UI Injury Prevention Research Center

 

The Forkenbrock Series provides a forum for dialogue about policy areas from applied, academic, and interdisciplinary perspectives. The series was established in honor of David Forkenbrock, a nationally recognized transportation researcher. Dr. Forkenbrock established the Public Policy Center at the University of Iowa in 1987 and directed the Center until 2007. His vision was to enable public and private sector decision makers to work with faculty, staff, and student researchers to explore solutions to complex problems related to the public interest.
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