Support to Building Multisectoral National Capacity on Road Traffic Injury Prevention

Ato Kassahun H/Mariam (Right); Dr. Olusegun A. Babaniyi (center) and Dr. Zerihun Tadess

Disability and Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation Programme (DPR) of the World Health Organization (WHO)-Ethiopia country office has, in collaboration with the Ethiopian National Road safety Coordination Office (NRSCO), organized a national workshop on road traffic injury prevention training from 10-13 July 2007 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia.

The workshop objectives were to explore the multisectoral role and to create the opportunity for the development of shared responsibility on road traffic injury prevention.

The opening session was attended by high level policy planners and decision makers from the health, transport, roads and police sectors.

H.E Ato Kassahun H/Mariam, head of federal transport authority of Ethiopia; Dr. Zerihun Tadesse, head of diseases prevention and control department and representing H.E the minister of health; and Dr. Olusegun A. Babaniyi, WHO Representative to Ethiopia had jointly opened the workshop.

Senior experts in traffic injury prevention from the Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention at the World Health Organization joined the country team to facilitate this workshop

It was emphasized that road traffic injuries has multiple determinants and hence it calls for integrated response by all players.