Department of Public Health Sciences
Division of Social Medicine

Safe Community Monthly News
Issue 24

July 2009
In this issue

Dear Colleagues,

New Cafe Community designation

1

Report from Rwanda

2

Report from Burundi
Openning of conference website

2

Report from Kenya

3

Sad demise of Dallas Crampton

3

Report from Greater Omaha

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Course4Forthcoming Conferences42

We are proud to introduce you another new safe Community in Australia.
We are introducing several SC activities in African region.
We deeply mourn the sad demise of Dallas Crampton, a committed Safe
Community man from Porirua, New Zealand.
News and reports of this issue are appended below. Same issue is also avail‐able at our WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion
website: http://www.phs.ki.se/csp/who_newsletters_en.htm
With warm regards
Leif Svanström, Responsible Editor
Koustuv Dalal, Editor

Cairns, Queensland, Australia: 152nd Safe Community
Cairns has been designated as the 152nd International Safe Community by the Australian Safe Communities Foundation asa certifying body of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion, on 20 March
2009. The Cairns region is situated on the coastline in the far north of the State of Queensland, Australia. It has a resident
population of 150,465,with a median age of 36.5 years. Several Indigenous communities and councils are also included in its
boundaries, the main groups being, in the North there is Mossman Gorge Community which is comprised of Kuku Yalangi
people whose traditional land stretches north of Mossman to Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire Council area, and to the southeastern edge of the shire there is Yarrabah Aboriginal Council which is combined people of Gungandji, Mandingalbay andYidjinji. (In all clan names, barra means “belonging to”, while Yidi signifies the Yidinji tribe or language group.) Gimuy‐
Walubarra Yidi, Wadjanbarra Yidi, Bundaburra Yidi, Gulgibarra Yidi, Bindabarra Yidi, Badjabarra Yidi, Mandigalpi Yidi,
Mallanbarra Yidi, The Yirrganydji people were, until relatively recently, regarded as seafarers who shared in common,descent from predecessors who once all spoke Yirrgay (Djabugay language dialect), and were particularly associated withthe coastal strip, river mouths, islands, and seas along the coast between the Barron River to Mowbray River south of Port
Douglas. 7.8% of the region’s population are Indigenous persons, compared with 2.3% of total Australians.
On any given day the population of Cairns can increase by up to 25,000 though tourists and visitors.
It is known internationally as a premium holiday destination. The Region covers an area of 4,091 sq kilometres andincludes the World Heritage listed Great Barrier Reef (the most visited tourist attraction in theWorld) and the Daintree Rainforest – the oldest, continuously surviving rainforest on earth. It also includes several tropicalislands, the largest ones being Fitzroy Island and Green Island.
Reporter: Pam Maher, Cairns
Photo: Henk Harberts, representing the Australian Safe Communities
Foundation, and Mayor Val Schier, Cairns Regional Council, display
the enlarged agreement and flag.
Looking on : from left: Willma King (Relationships Australia), Toni
Seden (WuChopperen Health Service), Pam Maher (Co‐ordinator, Safe
Communities Program, Cairns Regional Council), Andrea Jackson(Delfin Lendlease), Hon. Desley Boyle (Member for Cairns – partiallyhidden), Dulcie Bird (Dr.Edward Koch Foundation), Brian Hughes(Qld. Transport – partially hidden), Amanda Lee‐Ross (Cairns Regional
Domestic Violence Service), Tammy Allen (Tropical Population HealthService – Qld. Health), Jane Markotsis (Communities for Children –Mission Australia), Cr. Diane Forsyth (Safe Communities Champion,
Cairns Regional Council), Superintendent Brett Carter & AssistantCommissio ‐ner Andy Anderson (Qld. Police Service), Simone Newman(Qld. Fire & Rescue), Shane O’Brien (Delfin Lendlease).

Introducing the Safe Community model in Rwanda.
During 4 days in mid May in the capital of Rwanda, Kigali, visits were made to Ministry of Health, Central Referral University
hospital in Kigali, an NGO working with violence prevention and finally to the Genocide Museum, . The contacts were organ‐
ised by Dr André Russangawa at the National WHO‐ office.
The visit at the Emergency dept of the hospital (under leadership of Dr George Ntakiyiruta) underlined the magnitude of inju‐
ries leading to hospital care due to accidents, mainly in traffic but also falls and violence cases. There is no registry of hospitalinjury cases and thus the true extent of the injury problem is unknown. The visit at Ministry of Health, Dr Fidele Ngabo, again
underlined the importance of establishing the epidemiology of injuries‐ maybe starting with a national seminar‐ before further
preventive action. Just now the priorities from Ministry of Health were actions on HIV, Malaria and Mother & Child Health.
However a visit to an NGO, Forum des Activists Contre la Torture, with strong support from EU made it clear that at least in
the field of violence prevention and rehabilitation of victims there were many programs going on the local community level.
Executive Director Dr Charles Ntare expressed strong interest for his organization to join the International Safe Community
Network in the future.
Rapporteurs: Stephen Lawoko, Guldbrand Skjönberg & Leif Svanström.

Dr André Russangawa at the National WHO‐ office,discussing the injury situation with 2 hospital colleagues,
Dr George Ntakiyiruta and Dr Dominique Savio Mugenzei.

A broken femur – traffic crash!

Dr Leif Svanström and a fall injury patient

Burundi in great need of Safe Community as well as Safe School development.
In a seminar organized by WHO national office in the capital of Burundi, Bujumbura, about twenty participants agreed
upon the urgent need of safe community development. These represented different sectors of society including health, peacebuilding, reconciliation, conflict resolution, preventing violence against women and children etc.
Burundi just recently came out of a long conflict with official piece a month ago. However of about 8 million people almost
800 000 are now orphans due to civil war and AIDS epidemic. Many individuals and organizations are very engaged inhelping the victims of this long‐ lasting armed conflict. Some organizations like CDN Burundi have opened schools for someof those children and youth to during 8 month teach skills for developing a profession.
The agricultural sector answers to 90% of the population. However suburban communities are now overwhelmed by the
inflow of former youth soldiers trying to find something to do in communities without resources.
The future will decide whether the International Safe Community has anything to offer.

WHO seminar in Bujumbura, Burundi.

Dr Janvière Marimbu‐ contact at
WHO Burundi for safety promotion

Rapporteurs: Stephen Lawoko, Guldbrand Skjönberg & Leif Svanström

Website open:

The 19th International Conference on Safe Communities will be held in Suwon, from March 23rd to 26th, 2010.
www.2010safecom.org. http://www.2010safecom.org/web_mail/web_mail.html
The Second European Regional Safe Community Conference May 19‐20, 2010 in Reykjavik, Iceland. http://
www.lydheilsustod.is/SC-Iceland2010/

Kisumu in Kenya – already organized to become a Safe Community
Kisumu is the third largest city in Kenya, located on the western shores of Lake Victoria with a population estimated at about
500 000. Kisumu is the administrative centre for the Nyanza region. The city has an agricultural based economy, with highunemployment attributed to lack of many formal jobs. A large part of the city businesses are informal. The city was centre forthe post election uprising in 2008 resulting in more than 100 dead and 100,000 natives displaced from other parts of the country
finding refuge in the city. Since ten years Kisumu is one of about eighty cities around Lake Victoria involved in working withcapacity building and networking for the sustainable development of the Lake Victoria region under the lake Victoria Region
Local Authorities Cooperation (LVRLAC). Kisumu and Nacka, Sweden is now twin‐cities.
In February 2008, Kisumu got a new mayor‐ his worship Samuel Okello – with a great interest in creating a safe city. Towards
this end, he set up a team to steer a safe city program under his appointee, Dr Rosemary Obara. Under her leadership a twodays’ Kisumu safer city seminar was organized (May 12‐13) with the goal to establish an intersectoral Steering Committee and anumber of working groups on different areas of interest. This meeting was seconded by Mr Guldbrand Skjönberg – senioradvisor from Union of Baltic Cities since ten years and professors Stephen Lawoko and Leif Svanström from WHO CC on
Comm Safety. The meeting was opened by the Mayor and the District Commissioner James O. Ole Seriani and closed by District
Officer for Winam division.
Working groups were established in thefollowing areas:

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Home and child safety
Traffic safety
School and Sports safety

Traffic Safety and Disaster prevention
Safety in public places and violence
prevention.
Next step is for the groups to develop the
program and eventually an application formembership in the international networks of
Safe Communities.
Rapporteur: Guldbrand Skjönberg, SwedenThe opening of the seminar.

Ass prof Stephen Lawoko lecturing on thedetermining factors for injuries in Afrikaconcluding the need of Safe Community

Sad demise of Dallas Crampton, New Zealand
Dallas Crampton International Safe Community coordinator for Porirua in New
Zealand died suddenly on 28th June 2009. He was only in his forties with a young
family. Dallas was well known and admired within the Safe Community network forhis passion and commitment to community safety. Dallas was the driving force behindthe establishment of the Porirua Community Guardians, and the Project Manager of theSafer Porirua Strategic Group that drove the process to achieve accreditation in
September 2008 for Porirua as an ISC. Dallas had a deep insight and knowledge ofcommunity safety measures and was highly respected across New Zealand andinternationally. While Dallas will be sorely missed, the work he has done will continue
and he will be remembered for many years to come. That is a true measure of success.
The Porirua Community and Safe Communities Foundation New Zealand will greatly
miss the `Dallas’ way of doing things – a smile, friendly voice and willingness to help
others.
Reporter: Tania Peters, New ZealandGreater Omaha’s Safe Community adds Award
May 13, at the National Safety Council, Greater Omaha Chapter’s Safety and Health Summit, the City of LaVista was awarded
the first Safe Communities Award for the collaborative efforts of the fire, police, public works, library, and parks and recreationin promoting safety in the community of LaVista.
This Safe Communities Award has been added to recognize collaborative efforts between two or more organizationcommitted to a program that addresses safety risks in their community with a shared goal to reduce injuries and deaths andimprove the overall quality of life. The collaboration defines their community. A “community” could be defined by interests,
organizations, sports or geography.
More than 900 people attended the Awards Luncheon which also recognized Community Safety Champions in the categories
of business, not‐for‐profit, public servant, school safety and individual efforts for community safety. One hundred fourbusinesses were named Greater Omaha’s 2009 Safest Companies.

Adi Pour, PhD, Board Chairman of the NSC, Greater Omaha Chapter announcing the award. Present
to receive the award and check for $500 to encourage program continuation are Douglas Kindig,
Mayor, City of LaVista; Fire Chief Rich Uhl; Pam Boethe, City Clerk; and Police Chief Bob Lausten.

Reporter: Farell Kay, USA

CourseRESEARCH EDUCATION Course 2009
6th International Course ‐ A Ph.D. Course: Research in Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion: Designs,
Methods & Analysis, October ‐ November 2009 (5 weeks)
Stockholm, Sweden, 7.5 Credits
Application deadline: 1 May 2009
Course Organizer: Reza Mohammadi, MD, MPH, PhD
Email: Reza.Mohammadi@ki.se, Phone: +46 8 524 80142, Fax: +46 8 30 73 51
Courses 2009/ 2010
4th International Ph.D. Course on Internet
INJURY SURVEILLANCE AND CODING
1 October 2009 ‐ 31 March 2010 (25% rate)
7,5 Credits
Course Organizer: Professor Lars‐Gunnar Hörte , lars‐gunnar.horte@ki.se
CANADIAN FALLS PREVENTION CURRICULUM 2009
Distance Education Course for seniors’ health and community care providers on the design, implementation and evaluation offall prevention programs for all settings.
English: University of Victoria, http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/
French: University of Edmonton, Campus St. Jean, http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/cerf/
For more information: www.injuryresearch.bc.ca or contact Sarah Elliott at sarah.elliott@gov.bc.ca, Phone 01 250 952 1520, Fax
01 250 952 1570.

Forthcoming Safety and Injury Conferences2009
The 14th International Conference on Circumpolar Health, July 11‐16, 2009 Yellowknife, Canada
Abstract deadline: 20 February
Injury Prevention has always been a concern for the IUCH (International Union for Circumpolar Health) and injuries area very heavy burden on the health of indigenous people living in the circumpolar regions.
Contact Jody Butler Walker butlerwalker@gmail.com , www.icch2009.com
9th National Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, 26‐28 July, 2009 Melbourne, Australia
www.injuryprevention2009.com
Abstract submission closes on 10 November 2008.
18th International Conference on Safe Communities Safe Policies as an axis for development
August 13 – 15, 2009 Cali, Colombia
Date for Abstract submission deadline: New date 30 April!
http://www.phs.ki.se/csp/pdf/Conferences/cali10april.bmp
Call for abstract. http://safecom2009.univalle.edu.co/, www.cisalva.univalle.edu.co
For information: Martha Lucia Castañeda, maluca68@gmail.com. Julian Santaella, julian_santaella@hotmail.com

5th Asian Regional Conference on Safe Communities (ARCSC) Safety, Health, Harmony
18‐20 October 2009 Beijing, China
China Occupational Safety & Health Association (COSHA), http://www.cosha.org.cn
First Announcement: http://www.cosha.org.cn//upload/1224465633423324.pdf
Abstract deadline: 30 March 2009, http://www.cosha.org.cn//upload/1235111029165436.doc
Contact persons: Ms Wu Yanhua and Mr Liu Yan, E‐mail: 2009ascc@cosha.org.cn
21, Hepingli Beijie, Dongcheng District, Beijing , China 100713 , Tel: +86‐10‐64463609/64463339, Fax: +86‐10‐64463609
Senior Safety‐ future challenges Nordic Conference, 21 ‐22 October 2009 Karlstad, SwedenFirst Announcement and Call for Abstracts
www.phs.ki.se/csp/pdf/Conferences/2009_senior_safety_call_for_abstract.pdf
Abstract deadline: 15 May 2009 , For information: Dr Tommy Rosenberg, Head of Knowledge Centre for Senior Safety,
Karlstad, Sweden tommy.Rosenberg@Karlstad.se
International Workshop on “ Community Safety Promotion in Asian Context”
in conjunction with the 3rd Annual Conference of the Japanese Society of Safety Promotion(JSSP)
August 29, 2009 13:00~16:00, Towada City, Aomori Prefecture, JapanFree of charge for participants from overseas.
Contact persons for further information
Ms. Tomie Nitobe: tomie@ninus.ocn.ne.jp
Dr. Yoshihide Sorimachi: yoshihide_sorimachi@hotmail.com
BC Municipal Occupational Health & Safety Conference ‐ Whistler,
13 ‐ 15 September 2009
British Columbia, Canada
http://www.municipalsafety.bc.ca
Second Injury Prevention Conference for UK and Ireland
24 ‐ 25 September 2009
Cardiff, Wales
http://www.injuryobservatory.net/2nd_injury_conference.html
201019th International Safe Communities Conference Sustainability of Safe Community Programs23‐ 26 March, 2010 Suwon, Korea
For information: jpcho@ajou.ac.kr
The Second European Regional Safe Community Conference Incorporating the 7th Nordic Conference on Safe
Communities 19‐20 May, 2010 Reykjavik, Iceland
How to develop Safe Communities in Europe using the Nordic experiences.
‐ Re‐establishing a European Network of Safe Communities.
www.publichealth.is/SC‐Iceland2010/
Contact: Rósa Thorsteinsdóttir, rosa@publichealth.is, Tel: +354 5800900 / +354 8400906 , Fax: +354 5800901´
Public Health Institute of Iceland, Laugavegur 116, 105 Reykjavík, Iceland
10th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, 21‐24 September, 2010 London, UK
The first formal announcement for Safety 2010 will be issued in January 2009
Call for abstracts will open in April 2009. http://www.safety2010.org.uk
Early bird rate before 30 April 2009 £450.00
Contact: Karen Hughes, Email: k.e.hughes@ljmu.ac.uk , Tel: +44 (0) 151 231 8723
Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, Kingsway House, 5th Floor, Hatton Garden, Liverpool L3
2AJ, UK , Tel: +44 (0) 151 231 4510 | Fax: +44 (0) 151 231 4515

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, Editor (Email: koustuv.dalal@ki.se )