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Details for Professor Elizabeth Towner
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Elizabeth Towner |
| Job title | Visiting Fellow |
| Department | School of Social and Community Medicine University of Bristol |
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| Professional details | |
| Keywords | child injury prevention children injury social deprivation |
| Areas of expertise | My main research interests are in child injury prevention: Mixed method approaches in the evaluation of injury prevention programmes; understanding the link between social deprivation and childhood injuries and building up the evidence base on what works in childhood injury prevention. My research has involved the evaluation of national programmes, such as the Kerbcraft child pedestrian training project and the Community Fire Safety Innovation Fund. I was a member of England’s National Task Force on Accidental Injury’ in 2000/2001and wrote the report for the ‘Children and Young People’ sub-group. I organised the first injury prevention conference for the UK and Ireland: Research into Practice for Child and Adolescent Injury in September 2007 in Bristol. I am the co-author of the overview chapter of WHO/ UNICEF’s ‘First World Report on Child Injury Prevention’ and an editor and author of WHO Europe ‘ First European Report on Child Injury Prevention. |