Injury ICE Steering Committee 2009

The Steering Committee is charged with guiding the functioning of the Injury ICE with special regard to composition of the ICE, its structure, meeting planning and general oversight. The members of the committee and their brief biographic pieces are listed below.

 

Lois A Fingerhut lafingerhut@gmail.com

Ms. Fingerhut chairs the International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on Injury Statistics. She worked at the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics for 31 years and since 1992 served as the Center’s Special Assistant for Injury Epidemiology. She was responsible for the Center’s attention to injury as a cause of morbidity and mortality. Her work has included analyses of injury data from most NCHS health care and vital statistics data sets as well as analyses of international injury data. After retiring from the Federal government in January 2009, she began work as a consultant to several international injury epidemiology projects. She currently serves on the board of directors of International Society for Violence and Injury Prevention (ISVIP), and is a member of the Global Burden of Disease Injury Expert Group.

 

Kidist Bartolomeos bartolomeosk@who.int

Kidist Bartolomeos is technical officer at the WHO, Department of violence and injury prevention and disability. She has a BA in Biostatistics from University of Minnesota and MPH from Emory University. In 2000, she was awarded an international fellowship from CDC foundation and joined WHO as an Injury Surveillance Fellow. 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 her current role at WHO, she is responsible for global injury data/surveillance activities and technical support to countries. She was a co-editor of the World Report on Child Injury Prevention and a statistician for the WHO global road safety survey. She has contributed in the development and piloting of other WHO guidelines including those on injury surveillance. For 3 years she has also worked at the WHO office in Mozambique coordinating WHO's injury and violence prevention activities for the country.

 

Colin Cryer colin.cryer@ipru.otago.ac.nz

Dr Cryer coordinates injury surveillance reesearch at the Injury Prevention Research Unit, University of Otago, New Zealand. He trained in statistics originally, and taught biostatistics at the University of Otago during the 1980s. His current research is aimed at improving the validity of indicators and surveillance methods. With John Langley and other colleagues, in 2004 we developed valid national indicators for monitoring progress in injury prevention within New Zealand. These were accepted, and are being used, by the government. We continue to produce chartbooks based on these indicators for the whole population, as well as for children and for Maori.

 

James Harrison James.Harrison@flinders.edu.au

James Harrison is an injury epidemiologist and public health physician. He is an Associate Professor at Flinders University, where he directs the Research Centre for Injury Studies and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s National Injury Surveillance Unit. He holds a degree in medicine from Melbourne University, a Master of Public Health from the University of Sydney and is a Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine. Much of his research is on methods and infrastructure for public health surveillance and research, including classifications. His publications deal with aspects of injury including transport safety, the safety of Indigenous Australians, self-harm, alcohol and injury, occupational safety, sports injury and the safety of health care. He is a member of the WHO Revision Steering Group for the International Classification of Diseases, with responsibility for injury and external causes, and co-leads the Injury Expert Group in the Global Burden of Diseases 2005 project.

 

Yvette Holder yvetteholder@att.net

Mrs. Holder has been a practicing biostatistician for the past thirty-four years, and an injury epidemiologist for the past twenty-five, having worked with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC/NCIPC), and now as an international consultant. She was the lead author of the WHO Injury Surveillance Guidelines and of the Manual for Coordinated Violence & Injury Surveillance in the Eastern Caribbean, of a chapter in the WHO Manual promoting helmet use, co-author of the Poisoning Chapter of the WHO Child Injury Report, and has been involved in the development of the International Classification of External Cause of Injuries (ICECI), especially the violence module. In addition, she has worked in the design, establishment, monitoring and/or evaluation of injury surveillance systems globally.

 

Nancy Stout nas5@cdc.gov

Nancy Stout is Director of the Division of Safety Research, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (NIOSH/CDC). She joined NIOSH in 1985 and has held various scientific and leadership positions with the NIOSH Division of Safety Research, primarily conducting and directing surveillance and epidemiologic research of occupational injuries. She became Director of the Division in 1998. She has bachelors and masters degrees in Sociology and a doctorate in Quantitative Methods from West Virginia University, where she was also on the research faculty prior to joining NIOSH. She has published extensively on occupational injury surveillance, research and prevention.