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Monday 25 November 2019 | Tuesday 26 November 2019 | Wednesday 27 November 2019

MONDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2019

11.00am - Using virtual reality to improve coastal water safety and hazard identification: A strategy for child drowning prevention
Paola Araiza, Swinburne University of Technology

11.00am - Estimating the burden of child drowning in the Indian Sundarbans: A novel, lowcost approach
Medhavi Gupta, The George Institute for Global Health

11.15am - Removing risk score from falls risk assessment does not impact patient falls
Diana Clayton, Peninsula Health

11.30am - Kidsafe Victoria’s Online Child Injury Prevention Learning Module for Maternal and Child Health Nurses
Jason Chambers, Kidsafe Victoria

11.30am - Community falls prevention presentations: Participants with high verses low knowledge
Catrina Wold, Injury Matters

11.30am - Agent-based modelling and mandatory helmet legislation: An investigation of downstream healthcare costs and benefits
Ian Teichert, University of Melbourne

11.45am - Analysing online forum discussions to explore the problem of infant falls
Nipuna Cooray, The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales

12.15pm - Keeping Western Australian children safe on our farms
Anita Tsvetkov, Kidsafe WA

12.15pm - How well was an exercise-based falls prevention program for older Australians with vision impairment implemented? A process evaluation
Lisa Dillon, The George Institute for Global Health

12.15pm - Using the Behaviour Change Wheel to develop a child car seat project in South Africa: A scoping project
Kate Hunter, The George Institute for Global Health

1.30pm - Sustainable implementation of the SwimSafe drowning prevention program in Bangladesh: Gender perspectives, impacts and influences
Medhavi Gupta, The George Institute for Global Health

1.45pm - Breathalysing and surveying river users in Australia: Translating research into practice
Amy Peden, Royal Life Saving Society - Australia

2.00pm - A decade of action on child drowning prevention in Thailand
Suchada Gerdmongkolgan, Bureau of Non-communicable Diseases

2.00pm - ‘It’s just a matter of adapting them accordingly’: Stakeholder perspectives of falls prevention for adults aged 50 years and above with vision impairment
Lisa Dillon, The George Institute for Global Health

2.00pm - Hold the Red: Innovative technology reducing the risk of crashes at signalised intersections
Peter Kolesnik, Queensland Transport and Main Roads

2.15pm - NSW Study of Drowning and Near Drowning in Children (0-16 years)
Sue Wicks, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network

2.15pm - Comparing hospitalised trends, treatment cost and health outcomes of fall-related hip fractures in residential aged care and the community
Rebecca Mitchell, Macquarie University

2.15pm - Exploring policy and support strategies to improve experiences of the VicRoads medical review process
Yeewah Yam, Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV)

2.30pm - You know your message but how well do you know your audience?
Louise Cosgrove, Kids and Traffic, NSW Early Childhood Road Safety Education Program, Macquarie University

2.30pm - Safe transportation of our community’s most vulnerable children
Jason Chambers, Kidsafe Victoria

3.30pm - Spatial and temporal variation in fatal and non-fatal drowning events across Victoria, Australia (2007 – 2016)
Bernadette Matthews, Life Saving Victoria

3.30pm - A whole school approach to student safety, health and well-being in Western Australian schools
Allison Hass, Road Safety and Drug Education Branch

3.30pm - Responsive surveillance for prevention policy: A case study of the lime scooter trial in Brisbane
Kirsten Vallmuur, Queensland University of Technology and Jamieson Trauma Institute

3.30pm - What’s needed to improve the drug driving issue in Victoria?
Yeewah Yam, Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV)

3.45pm - When environmental solutions take too long: The vital role of education and enterprise in child injury prevention
McKeely Denholm, Kidsafe SA

3.45pm - Pushing boundaries: Looking back, leaping forward for injury prevention health promotion programs
Russ Milner, Department of Health WA

4.00pm - Media as a tool for injury prevention advocacy: A drowning prevention case study from the Australian summer
Amy Peden, Royal Life Saving Society - Australia

4.00pm - Swings and roundabouts - The making of child injury prevention policy in Aotearoa New Zealand: An exploration
Julie Chambers, Chambers NZ

4.15pm - Hazardous child products on the Australian and USA market 2011-2017: An empirical analysis of child-related product safety recalls
Catherine Niven, Queensland University of Technology

4.15pm - Engaging with local governments for injury prevention
Emily Anderson, Injury Matters

4.15pm - Evaluation of Keys4Life Pre-driver Education in Western Australia Secondary Schools
Allison Hass, Road Safety and Drug Education Branch

4.30pm - Milestones in Childhood Safety Legislation
John Pearn, Queensland Children’s Hospital

4.45pm - A systematic review and meta-analysis of impact speed and probability of pedestrian fatality or injury
Jake Olivier, University of New South Wales

4.45pm - How do you know your products safe?
Ruth Barker, Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit

4.45pm - Getting serious about on-road bicycle use and safety
George Rechnitzer, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine

TUESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2019

9.55am - Keynote Address: Using Digital Health and Digital Technologies to Understand Injury Better – What are the opportunities?
Dr David Hansen, CSIRO, Australia

10.45am - Expansion of the Online Concussion Awareness Training Tool
Shelina Babul, University of British Columbia

10.45am - The more things change, the more they stay the same: Fatal drowning surveillance in 1894 and 2019
Keeley Allen, Royal Life Saving Society - Australia

11.00am - Using a Google Grant: Artificial intelligence for social good to establish a national suicide surveillance system
Debbie Scott, Monash University

11.00am - Work-related injury and illness among older truck drivers in Australia: A population based, retrospective cohort study
Sharon Newnam, Monash University

11.00am - Button batteries, the perfect product safety storm
Ruth Barker, Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit

11.00am - Read me a story - Keeping safe in the surf!
Louise Lambeth, Ocean Beach Surf Life Saving Club

11.15am - Active & Safe Central: A resource to support the prevention of sport injury
Sarah Richmond, Public Health Ontario

11.15am - Severe non fatal injuries to older farmers
Jarrod Walker, The University of Sydney

11.15am - The influence of program evaluation on the Keep Watch toddler drowning prevention program in Western Australia
Rachel Murray, Royal Life Saving Society WA

11.15am - Drowning - Differential Diagnosis in Special Cases
John Pearn, Queensland Children’s Hospital 

11.30am - “The dignity of risk”, and other lame excuses
Ruth Barker, Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit

11.45am - RAPID FIRE PRESENTATION (5MIN) How effective are workplace safety culture interventions? A systematic review
Mohammed Aburumman, Monash University Accident Research Centre

11.50am - RAPID FIRE PRESENTATION (5MIN) Challenges of ensuring the safety and well-being of travelling workers
Fiona O’Sullivan, Queensland Office of Industrial Relations

12.00pm - RAPID FIRE PRESENTATION (5MIN) Reducing serious injuries within trampoline parks
David Eager, UTS

3.30pm - Pre-injury health status of major trauma patients with orthopaedic injuries
Asmare Gelaw, Monash University

3.30pm - In-field operator protective device safety survey of Australian and New Zealand workplace quad bike riders
Raphael Grzebieta, Monash University

4.00pm - 3 steps workplaces can take to reduce chronic disease risk factors and improve injury outcomes
Roslyn Miller, Queensland’s Healthy Workers Unit

4.00pm - Establishing the empirical evidence-base to develop a model for family homicide prediction
Lyndal Bugeja, Monash University

4.15pm - Using ambulance clinical records to understand the relationship between violence, alcohol and other drugs, mental health and self-injurious thoughts and behaviours
Debbie Scott, Monash University

WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2019

9.00am - Off the radar: Completing the missing pieces of the poisoning puzzle
Jared Brown, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network

9.15am - The impact of alcohol and drugs on Australian coastal drownings
Jaz Lawes, Surf Life Saving Australia

9.15am - Spatially forecasting serious injury into the future
Ben Beck, Monash University

9.15am - Characteristics of victims attending Victorian hospitals due to assault by a stranger or multiple persons unknown, 2008 - 2018
Jane Hayman, Monash University Accident Research Centre

9.45am - Unintentional poisonings: The impact of Poisons Information Centres in reducing unnecessary healthcare utilisation
Jared Brown, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network

9.45am - A review of the injury prevention workforce in Western Australia
Catrina Wold, Injury Matters

10.00am - Can text mining and machine learning help reduce systematic review workload for injury researchers?
Melita Giummarra, Monash University

10.00am - Patterns of personal responsibility after major trauma
Georgina Lau, Monash University

11.40am - Keynote Address: Defining boundaries before pushing them - Improving road safety capacity and outcomes in Asia by working in partnership
Dr Judy Fleiter, Global Road Safety Partnership, Switzerland