Department of Public Health Sciences
Division of Social Medicine

Issue No.1

August 2007Dear Colleagues,
After a little break in its long journey ‘Safe Community News’ is back to your box again.
From now and onwards ‘Safe Community Weekly News’ would be published as monthly
issues and henceforth renamed as ‘Safe Community Monthly News’.
With an upgrade version ‘Safe Community Monthly News’ will now cover more news andviews from Safe Communities, affiliate centres and certifying centres around thecontinents.
Thanks for your continuous support for ‘Safe Community News’. Please send your newsand event information to the technical editor.
News and reports of this issue are appended below including the new editorial staff of‘Safe Community Monthly News’.
With warm regards
Leif Svanström, Responsible Editor
Koustuv Dalal, Technical EditorContent:
1. Conference News from Iran …………………………………………………… Page 2
2. Award News from Australia …………………………………………………… Page 3
3. Safe Community News from Chile ………………………………………… Page 4
4. Activity Report from Certifying centre, Suwon, South Korea…. Page 5
5. New Editorial Board…………………………………………………………………. Page 5N.B. For any email regarding ‘Safe Community Monthly News’ please do write ‘SCMN’ atthe subject box.

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1. Conference News from IranThe 16th International Conference on Safe Communities, Tehran 2007
The Ministry of Health, of the IR Iran hosted the 16th International Conference on SafeCommunities, from 11-13 June 2007, Tehran, Iran under the auspicious of the World HealthOrganization Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion, Karolinska Institutet,
Stockholm, Sweden.
The conference opened on the 11th June’07 by His Excellency Dr. Davoudi, the Vice Presidentof the IR Iran, Dr. Etienne Krug, Director of the Department of Injuries and ViolencePrevention, WHO and DR. Lankarni, Minister of Health, Government of IR Iran. Iranianchildren performed several beautiful stage shows targeting different injury prevention
programs. In total about 1200 delegates including about 100 international participants from27 countries of all the continents had participated in this conference.
Honorable Mayor of Tehran Dr. Ghalibaf hosted the Safe Community designation ceremony,
amid of nice picturesque at the hill station of Lavizan/Shian. He also felicitated Prof. Leif
Svanstrom for his community safety promotion efforts for the last 30 years.

Dr. Coggan; Chief Consultant of Women affairs, Tehran municipality;
Hon’ble Mayor of Tehran (Dr. Ghalibaf )and Prof. Svanstrom (from photo left)

The Main Theme of the conference was "the Impact of Safe-communities on Road Safety".
However all other topics in the field of safe communities were included under eight broad
Theme headings.
Prof. Dinesh Mohan and Prof. Geetam Teewari of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi hadorganized two days pre-conference workshop on ‘Traffic Safety’. A group of scientists from theKarolinska Institutes including Robert Ekman, Bo Henricsson and Koustuv Dalal and Carolyn
Coggan from New Zealand and Dr. Maria Isabel Gutierrez from Columbia with active help ofDr. Zargar, Trauma Research Centre of Tehran University of Medical Sciences had hosted the‘Kid’s Safety’ workshop at the 2nd day of the Conference.

Dr. Coggan at a happier moment during the conference.

3Dr. Alireza Moghishi, the conference organizer had presented the Safety Resolutions 2007
adopted in this conference.
Finally the Safe Community Conference flag handed over by the Mayor of Tehran to Dr.
Karolyn Coggan, the representative from New Zealand, the next conference host. Dr. Cogganannounced one scholarship for the 17th International conference on Safe Communities, 2008,
New Zealand.

Safe Community designation ceremony:
During the conference the city of Khasmar has been designated as ‘Safe Community’ firsttime in the Iranian history with a new dimension of safety awareness.

The red-carpet was being waited for the guestof the ‘Safe Community’ designation ceremony at Lavizan.

§ More news of ‘Safe Community’ designation ceremony will be available in the next issue.

2. Award News from Australia‘International Distinguished Safe Community Award’ presented to Richard Hicks
Richard Hicks, Director of Community Health Services at Southern Adelaide Health Serviceand Chairperson of Noarlunga Towards a Safe Community (since 1992), was presented withthe International Distinguished Safe Community Award on Friday 29 June 2007.
Professor Leif Svanström, Chairman of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety
Promotion, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden asked the Australian Safe Communities
Foundation to present the award to Mr Hicks on his behalf.

Dr. Hicks and Dr. Meegan Brotherton (from photo left).

4Meegan Brotherton, Secretary of the Australian Safe Communities Foundation, presented theaward to Mr Hicks in recognition of outstanding dedication and leadership in safety promotion
and injury prevention, with contributions and achievements that have had a significant andlong–term
impactonSafe
Communitydevelopment.
Previous recipients of the Award are Henk Harberts, Chair of the Australian Safe
Communities Foundation (2004) and Martha Stowe, Director of the Injury Prevention Centreof Greater Dallas (2005).
’Noarlunga Towards a Safe Community’ became the fourteenth member of the World HealthOrganisation 'Safe Communities Network' in 1996 and was re-designated as a member in2003. Members of the ‘Noarlunga Towards a Safe Community’ Reference Committeecelebrated Mr Hicks' role in working with and supporting the community within the City ofOnkaparinga. After more than three decades of service in community, public and primary
health care Mr Hicks will retire on 6 July 2007.

For more details visit: the www.safecommunities.org.au - NEWS

3. Safe Community News from Chile
Safe Community 112: Peñaflor
Inhabitants: 78.000
Area: 69 sq. km
Distance to Santiago (Capital city): 38 km

In 2006 Peñaflor, a “commune” in Chile showed a comprehensive program on injuryprevention, which after some preparation and an application resulted in the designationof the first “Safe Community” in the Spanish speaking world. On the 12th of March´07
Peñaflor was designated as ‘Safe Community’ by Professor Leif Svanström, Karolinska
Institute, Stockholm; Professor Maria Isabel Gutierrez, CISALVA, Cali, Colombia and Dr.
Bo Henricson, Certifying Centre, Sweden. More than 600 people mostly from Chile hadparticipated in the designation ceremony.
During many years citizens of Peñaflor have suffered from flooding and drowning in the18 channels irrigating the area from the river, Rio Mapucho. Furthermore many bushfires
have occurred destroying houses and killing people. One of the first tasks for the injury
prevention program was to get the channels in good shape and teaching the inhabitants
about fires and flooding. Since then an impressive program has evolved with injury
prevention in homes, schools, traffic and leisure. A good public relation has spread theinformation around the region where we hope to see more Safe Communities.
Due to this designation and a lot of public relation from Peñaflor several othercommunities are working with injury prevention in a more comprehensive way, following
the 6 Indicators for designation. The World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre on
Community Safety Promotion at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm is now involved inhelping more “Communes” to become Safe Communities in South America.

54. Activity Report from WHO Safe Community Certifying centre, Suwon,
South Koreaa) Site visit to China
Community: Four communities in Beijing
Two communities of Kailuan Group in Hebei Province
One Community of Lu’an Group in Shanxi Province
Duration: 22nd June – 2nd JulyExperts:
Joon Pil Cho
Henk Harberts
Nam Soo ParkShumei Wang (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)§ The full report will arrive in the next issue.

b) Jeju Safe Community Designation Ceremony
Date: 30th July, 2007
Signing person from Certifying Center:
Prof. Leif Svanstrom (KI)Prof. Joon Pil Cho (Suwon)
Dr. Carolyn Coggan (New Zealand)
Invited guests from overseas:
Naoya Hatta from Kyoto prefecture
Wang Zhiling with 9 persons from Chaoyang District, Beijingc) Suwon Safe Community Re-designation
Suwon city of South Korea has been preparing an application report for re-designation within
this year. The signing ceremony may take place during November 2007.

5. New Editorial Board: Safe Community Monthly News
Leif Svanstrom, Editor
Koustuv Dalal, Technical Editor
Local Editorial Board Members (KI, Sweden):Reza Mohammadi, Diana Stark Ekman, Stephen Lawoko.

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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 )