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Key injury websites

• Injury prevention
• Research organisations
• Safe communities

Injury prevention for specific populations

• Children and young people
• Indigenous people
• Older people

Injury topic or risk factor

• Alcohol and other drugs
• Crime prevention
• Falls prevention
• Family violence prevention
• Road safety
• Sport and recreation safety
• Suicide prevention
• Violence prevention
• Water safety
• Workplace safety

Key injury websites

Injury prevention

• Australian Injury Prevention Network
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - Injury Prevention and Control
• Collaboration for Accident Prevention and Injuries Control (CAPIC) (UK)
• Department of Health and Ageing - Injury Prevention (Australia) 
• Eurosafe: European Association for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion
• Health Insite - Injuries and Injury Prevention part of the Australian Governement gateway to health information
• International Society for Violence and Injury Prevention
• Injury Control Council of Western Australia
• Injury Control Resource Information Network (US)
• Injury Observatory for Britain and Ireland
• National Center for Injury Prevention & Control CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
• National Safety Council (US)
• Public Health Agency of Canada - Injury Prevention
• Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne Safety Centre (Australia)
• SafetyLit - Injury Prevention Literature Update (US)
• SAVIR (Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (US)
• SmartRisk Canada
• Strategic injury Prevention Partnership (SIPP) (Australia)
• TEACH-VIP e-learning (WHO)
• U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (US)
• Victorian Safe Communities Network - Worldwide Links (Australia)
• World Health Organization (WHO) Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability (VIP)

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Research organisations

• Academic injury research centres - worldwide (US)
• Alberta Centre for Injury Control & Research, University of Alberta (Canada)
• B.C. Injury Research and Prevention Unit (Canada)
• Burn Injury Research Unit, School of Surgery, The University of Western Australia
• Center for Injury Research and Policy, The Research Institute of Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio (US - CDC designated ICRC)
• Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety (CARRS-Q), Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
• Colorado Injury Control Research Center, Colorado State University (US - CDC designated ICRC)
• Critical Care Research Division, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University (Australia)
• The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney (Australia)
• Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, University of Washington (US - CDC designated ICRC)
• Injury Prevention Research Center, The University of Iowa (US - CDC designated ICRC)
• Injury Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin (US - CDC designated ICRC)
• Injury Risk Management Research Centre (IRMRC), University of NSW (Australia)
• Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research & Policy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, (US - CDC designated ICRC)
• Monash University Accident Research Centre (Australia)
• The Mount Sinai Injury Control Research Center (ICRC), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City (US - CDC designated ICRC)
• National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of NSW (Australia)
• National Drug Reseach Institute, Curtin University (Australia)
• National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia)
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (UK)
• Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit (Australia)
• Research Centre for Injury Studies, Flinders University - incorporating the AIHW National Injury Surveillance Unit (Australia)
• The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (UK)
• The San Francisco Injury Center for Research and Prevention, University of California (US - CDC designated ICRC)
• Southern California Injury Prevention Research Program (SCIPRP), UCLA Shcool of Public Health (US - CDC designated ICRC)
• UAB Injury Control Research Center, University of Alabama (US - CDC designated ICRC)
• UNC Injury Prevention Research Centre, University of North Carolina (US - CDC designated ICRC)
• WVU Injury Control Research Center, West Virginia University (US - CDC designated ICRC)

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Safe communities

• Australian Safe Communities Foundation
• National Safety Council (US)
• Safe Communities Canada
• Safe Communities Queensland (Australia)
• Victorian Safe Communities Network (Australia)
• WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion (Safe Communities international website) (Sweden)

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Injury prevention for specific populations

Children and young people

• Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies
• Australian Institute of Family Studies
• Eurosafe: European Child Safety Alliance
• Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (US)
• Health and Human Development Programs (US)
• International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention (ISCAIP) (Sweden)
• Kidsafe - Child Accident Prevention Foundation of Australia
• Kidsource Online (US)
• National Child Protection Clearinghouse (Australia)
• National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety (US)
• NSW Commission for Children and Young People (Austrlaia)
• Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Safety Centre (Australia)
• Safe Kids Worldwide (US)
• STRYVE:Striving To Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere (US)
• UNICEF
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Adolescent Health
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Child Injuries and Violence
• Young Driver Factbase (Australia)
• Youthsafe (Australia)

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Indigenous people

• Australian Indigenous Health InfoNet
• Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (Australia)

Older people

• Falls - Older Adults - CDC Injury Prevention and Control (US)
• Prevention of Falls Network Europe
• Safety for Seniors (EU)
• Seniors Australian Government website for older Australians
• Stay On Your Feet W.A. (Australia)

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Injury topic or risk factor

Alcohol and other drugs

• KCI - The Anti-Meth Site (US)
• National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) (Australia)
• National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) (Australia)
• NIDA, National Institute on Drug Abuse (US)
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Alcohol
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Substance Abuse

Crime prevention

• Australian Institute of Criminology
• International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (Canada)
• UNODC, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Falls prevention

• Falls - Older Adults - CDC Injury Prevention and Control (US)
• Prevention of Falls Network Europe (ProFaNE)
• Stay On Your Feet W.A. (Australia)

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Family violence prevention

• Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault
• Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse (Australia)
• Domestic Violence and Incest Resource Centre, Victoria (Australia)
• Family Research Laboratory (US)
• MINCAVA, Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (US)
• National Child Protection Clearinghouse (Australia)
• National Clearinghouse on Family Violence (Canada)
• Prevent Child Abuse America (US)
• Violence Prevention Evidence Base and Resources (WHO)

 

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Road safety

• ARRB Group (Australia)
• Australian Transport Safety Bureau
• Austroads (Australia)
• Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety (CARRS-Q), Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
• Department for Transport, Road Safety (UK)
• European Commission - Road Safety (EU)
• Monash University Accident Research Centre (Australia)
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (US)
• Road Traffic Injuries Research Network (RTIRN) (International)
• Transport Research Laboratory (UK)
• United Nations Road Safety Collaboration
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Road Traffic Injuries
• Young Driver Factbase (Australia)

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Sport and recreation safety

• Safety in Sports: EU (European Network for Sports Injury Prevention)

Suicide prevention

• American Association of Suicidology (US)
• Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, Griffith University
• Centre for Suicide Prevention (Canada)
• Centre for Suicide Research, University of Oxford (UK)
• Living is for everyone (LIFE) - preventing suicide in Australia
• Mental Health in Australia, Department of Health and Ageing
• Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) (US)

Violence prevention

• Violence Prevention Evidence Base and Resources (WHO)
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Violence

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Water safety

• Australian Water Safety Council
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - Swim Healthy, Swim Safely (US)
• International Lifesaving Federation - World Water Safety
• Marine Safety Research Centre, School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia
• Royal Life Saving Society Australia
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Drowning

Workplace safety

• AgHeath Australia
• Australian Safety and Compensation Council
• European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU)
• Farmsafe Australia Inc.
• National Research Centre for OHS Regulation, Australian National University
• VIOSH Australia, School of Science and Engineering, University of Ballarat Asia-Pacific Centre for Teaching and Research in Occupational Health and Safety
• Working on Safety.net (International)

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