


A qualified physiotherapist, she has also completed a Grad Dip Biostat, M Biostat, M App Sc (Research) and a PhD. She is the Head of the Prehospital, Emergency and Trauma research unit at the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. She was a co-editor of the World Report on Child Injury Prevention and a statistician for the first WHO Global Status Report on Road Safety.īelinda Gabbe Belinda Gabbe is an injury epidemiologist and biostatistician. She was the project manager for the 5-year Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Road Safety Program, for Kenya and Egypt. For 15 years, she worked at the WHO, Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, where she was responsible for global injury data/surveillance activities and providing technical support to WHO member states. Before joining WHO, she was a fellow of the Association for Schools of Public Health, at CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and after worked as a Research Director of a Firearm Injury Surveillance Project at Emory Center for Injury Control.

In 2000, she was awarded an international fellowship from the CDC foundation and joined WHO as an Injury Surveillance Fellow. She has a BA in Biostatistics from University of Minnesota and MPH from Emory University. Kidist Bartolomeos Bartolomeos is an editor of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. He is a member of the Global Burden of Diseases Injury Expert Group, co-Director of the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) system (and Director of the Farr Institute Centre at Swansea (). He has led a number of national and international large scale observational and interventional studies. His main research interests are in the quantification of the burden of injuries as an essential prerequisite to developing appropriate policy responses, and in the use of linked data to monitor, target and evaluate interventions. He has more than 20 years of experience in injury surveillance, epidemiology and prevention. Lyons is Professor of Public Health at Swansea University, a public health physician with a background in clinical and emergency medicine in Ireland and Wales. Ronan A Lyons Lyons chairs the International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on Injury Statistics. Brief biographic sketches of the Steering Committee members are provided below. The Steering Committee is charged with guiding the functioning of the Injury ICE, particularly as related to the composition of the ICE, its structure, meeting planning and general oversight.
