Department of Public Health Sciences
Division of Social Medicine

Issue No.2

September 2007Dear Colleagues,
Thanks for your overwhelming support and response with the first issue of ‘Safe Community
Monthly News’. Also thanks to all of you for the flood of congratulations and thanks fromaround the world. We apologise our inability to individually reply against thousands of thankgiving emails.
In this issue we have included information of Safety related Conferences around the world.
We are encouraging all Safe Communities, affiliate centres and certifying centres around thecontinents to send more news and event information. At the same time we are also
encouraging the individual safety experts to be united with fellows in your own country to plan,
implant ideas and establish more safe communities. We are ever ready to provide supports inthis regard.
Thanks for your continuous support for ‘Safe Community News’. Please send your news andevent information to the technical editor.
News and reports of this issue are appended below.
With warm regards
Leif Svanström, Responsible Editor
Koustuv Dalal, Technical EditorContent:
1. News on North Shore city Safe Comm…………………………………… Page 2
2. Safe Community initiative from Vietnam………………………………. Page 3
3. Peñaflor Safe Comm designation ………………………………………… Page 4
4. Khasmar Safe Comm designation ………………………………………… Page 4
5. Safety movement from Macedonia ……………………………………… Page 5
6. Forthcoming Safety and injury conferences …………………………. Page 5
7. Course News ………………………………………………………………………….. Page 6

N.B. For any email regarding ‘Safe Community Monthly News’ please do write ‘SCMN’ at thesubject box.

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1. North Shore City Safe Community
Janferie Bryce-Chapman, executive director Age Concern for North Shore and executive
member of ShoreSafe welcomed Mayor George Wood, Teresa Stanley, chair of ShoreSafe andother representatives from the North Shore City Council (NSCC), Accident Compensation
Corporation (ACC), Police, Fire Service Waitemata District Health Board (WDHB), Watersafe
Auckland, Age Concern, Safe Communities Foundation New Zealand and members of the North
Shore community involved in safety promotion and injury prevention, to North Shore City
Designation ceremony held on Tuesday 24th July, 2007. Some of the community members
had been involved in the North Harbour Injury Prevention Coalition before it became
ShoreSafe and others had become involved since the formation of ShoreSafe and the drive
towards International Safe Community accreditation.
Teresa Stanley presented a potted history of ShoreSafe, the people andorganisations involved, and the achievements so far. She concluded bysaying that “what we have achieved so far is good, but by the time weare applying for re-designation I want us to be great”.
Three presentations were then given: the first by North Shore Police Inspector Les Paterson on
the approach adopted by North Shore Police to prevent crime and violence on the North Shore.
He commented on the size and geography of North Shore and how it was unique in that it had
the longest coastline in New Zealand. His address provided statistics showing how well North
Shore was achieving in its policing of crime and violence and that it was the safest city in New
Zealand. His address was followed by a presentation from Child Youth and Families (AnnCasey), Safer Families (Tracey Swanberg) and Senior Sgt Bruce Wood from the Police on theirjoint initiative and the Takapuna model they have developed. These two presentations ablydemonstrated the collaboration and cooperation between these three organisations. The thirdpresentation was by a representative from the NSCC, Warwick Robertson, on the Safe Summer
Campaign. Again this presentation ably demonstrated the depth and breadth of safety
initiatives occurring on the North Shore between a range of government and non-governmentorganisations both on the sea and land.
All present were given a most impressive demonstration of Tai Chi by one of the local migrant
Tai Chi groups. This covered two Tai Chi forms and a two sword demonstration by theirmaster and leader.
The next part of the ceremony was an address by Dr Carolyn Coggan as the certifying delegateof the WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion.
She praised ShoreSafe
and the North Shore City Council on their collaborative efforts, as identified in their applicationand site visit, and presented them with a plaque and flag which acknowledged these efforts.
The agreement was signed by Professor Leif
Svanstrom, Dr Carolyn Coggan, the Mayor
George Wood, Katie Sadleir, General Manager
Injury Prevention ACC, Dave Davies CEO WDHB,Inspector Les Paterson, Area Commander North
Shore City Police, Terry Hoskins CEO Enterprise
North Shore, and Teresa Stanley Chairperson
ShoreSafe.

The afternoon concluded with a karakia and all were invited to refreshments and a toast to
North Shore “A Safer City”.

22. ‘Safe Community’ initiative from Vietnam
Last week a high level ministerial delegation from Vietnam visited WHO Collaborating Centre
on Community Safety Promotion, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Public Health Sciences,
Division of Social Medicine (27-30 August 2007). Moa Sundström was hosting the delegation
during their visits in Stockholm. It was a major initiative from the government of Vietnam inthe line of safe community movement and childhood injury prevention.
The delegation team included Ms. Le Thi Thu - Former Minister of Vietnam Committee forPopulation Family and Children (CPFC), Director of the Vietnam-UNICEF Project Management
Unit, Mission leader; Ms. Truong Thi Mai - Chairman of National Assembly's Committee forSocial Affairs; Mr. Phan Trong Lan – Secretary, Vice Minister of Ministry of Health, Mr. Nguyen
Huy Nga - Director General of the Preventive Medicine Department (VAPM), Ministry of Health;Mr. Nguyen Trong An - Vice Director of Children Department, Vietnam Committee forPopulation Family and Children; Ms. Hoang Tuyet Mai - Project Officer, Childhood Injury
Prevention Section, UNICEF Vietnam and Mr. Phan Trong Lan, Secretary of VAPM.
During their visit they discussed with Prof. Svanström about possible ways of increasing
cooperation between WHO CC and Vietnamese administrations in the filed of safety promotion
and injury prevention. They visited Nacka safe Community, Stockholm. From Associate
Professor Robert Ekman, the delegations also received ideas on helmet initiatives andachievements within the safe community concept in Sweden.

The Vietnamese delegation team in Karolinska: (from photo right) Nguyen Huy Nga,Hoang Tuyet Mai, Truong Thi Mai, Reza Mohammadi, Moa Sundström, Le Thi Thu,
Nguyen Trong An, Phan Trong Lan.

The group visited a safety shop and met an expert from consumer safety institute. During themeeting they discussed different aspects of safety standards in the ordinary products and daily
life. Finally they have an important knowledge sharing meeting with Dr. Reza Mohammadi,
Karolinska Institutet and Dr. Jairo Osorno (from Colombia) who has been visiting WHO CC at
Karolinska Institutet. Dr. Anders Norman who is working in Vietnam as chief technical advisor
in the Vietnam-Belgium Development Cooperation also joined in the meeting.

33. Peñaflor ‘Safe Community’ Designation Ceremony
With 78,000 inhabitants Peñaflor, Chile is the 112th ‘safe Community’ in its series. On 12th ofMarch´07 Peñaflor was designated as ‘Safe Community’.

Peñaflor: Safe Community designation ceremony:Eduardo Jorquera Cabello,
the Mayor of Peñaflor, Prof. Maria Isabella Gutierrez from University of Cali,
Columbia and representative from the Certifying Centre in the Americas,
Prof. Leif Svanström and Dr. Bo Henricsson.

More news on Peñaflor: http://www.phs.ki.se/csp/safecom/penaflorchile.htm

3. Khasmar ‘Safe Community’ Designation Ceremony
With 89,577 inhabitants Khasmar, Iran is the 115th ‘Safe Community’ in its series. On 12th ofJune´07 Khasmar was designated as ‘Safe Community’.

Khasmar: ‘Safe Community designation ceremony’: Governor, Head ofcity council Mayor and Health network of Khasmar, Iran; Prof. Leif Svanström
and Dr. Alireza Moghishi.

More news on Khasmar: http://www.phs.ki.se/csp/safecom/kashmar.htm

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4. Safety movement from Macedonia
The Government of Republic of Macedonia has considered Road Safety as a priority action.
They have set up the National board for road safety. Dr. Tozija Fimka is the coordinator of theBoard. During 23-29 April 2007 the board performed several activities towards road safety
awareness and strict implementation of regulations. They have observed the UN Road Safety
Week in Macedonia. First time it’s a great safety movement in Macedonian history.

School children are performing road safety awareness in Skopje

5. Forth coming Safety and Injury Conferences2007••PrePre-Conference SeminarSeminar on Injury Surveillance Of the 4 th Asian Regional Conference
on Safe Communities Bangkok,Bangkok, 21 November
4th Asian Regional Conference on Safe Communities
2222-24 November 2007 Bangkok, Thailand

Incorporating Global Thinking, Cultivating Local Strategy
Abstracts Submission: Dead Line: 31 May 2007
•2525-26 November PostPost-ConferenceTsunami
ConferenceTsunami visit
For information:
Dr. Adisak Plitponkarnpim raapp@mahidol.ac.th
Mahippathorn Chinnapha johnny@stjohn.ac.th
www.safethai2007.com

2008•

The 9th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion
1515-18 March 2008, Mérida, Yucatan Mexico
http://www.safety2008mx.info/Abstracts: Submission deadline was until July 13, 2007
Early Bird Registration: will be extended until July 30, 2007
Online Registration and Payment is available at http://www.safety2008mx.info
Conference Secretariat at: safety2008@insp.mx

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7th Nordic Safe Community Conference 2727-28May 2008,
2008 Oslo, Norway
For information: peter.koren@chello.no•17th International Safe Communities Conference
20th – 23 October 2008Christchurch, New Zealand
For further information visit: http://www.safecom2008.org.nz/
email: contact@scfnz.org.nz or robyn.steel@ccc.govt.nz

6. Course•4th International Course - A Ph.D. Level Course
Research in Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion: Designs, Methods & Analysis
21 January - 22 February 2008, Stockholm, Sweden.
Karolinska Catalogue Code: 1888
Application deadline: 15 October 2007

For further information:
Course Organizer: Reza Mohammadi, MD, MPH, PhD
Email: Reza.Mohammadi@ki.se,Phone: +46 8 7373775, Fax: +46 8 33 46 93, +46 8 30 73 51•'International Course
Course on Transportation Planning and Safety'; 1010-16 December 2007
The course will be held in Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India.
For more information visit: http://web.iitd.ac.in/~tripp/course/courseRframe.htm¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤WHO Collaborating Centre for Community Safety Promotion
Karolinska Institutet
Department of Public Health Sciences
Division of Social Medicine
Norrbacka 2nd Floor, SE-171 76, Stockholm, Sweden.
Communication: Koustuv Dalal (Email: koustuv.dalal@ki.se )6