Greetings,

For those with an interest in integrating public health and transportation for better health and safety outcomes, please consider the upcoming event in April. There’s still time to submit a poster idea (by February 15), with community projects welcome and the poster competition will offer cash prizes for students (1st place = $500, 2nd place = $350, 3rd place = $150).

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Register today for the Safe Systems Summit: April 23-24, in Durham, NC

 

The Safe Systems Summit: Redefining Transportation Safety offers an inclusive and interactive learning environment to explore the underlying systems driving the national rise in traffic deaths, share findings from innovative new research, and develop insights into reducing transportation injuries and fatalities by utilizing both Safe Systems and systems science principles, tools, and techniques. Join participants from various disciplines to explore systems together, discuss advanced  and emerging technologies and the role of data integration, and exchange ideas with national and international experts. Leave with new ideas, connections, resources, and skills. Register by March 29 and take advantage of low registration costs ($35 for participants, $20 for students).

 

The Summit is hosted by the Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety and co-sponsored by the North Carolina Governor’s Highway Safety Program. Learn more about the program, and submit your poster idea by February 15.

 

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Laura Sandt, PhD

Director, Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety

Director, Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center

UNC Highway Safety Research Center

919-962-2358

sandt@hsrc.unc.edu

 

Register now for the Safe Systems Summit!

April 23-24, 2019  |  Durham, NC