YOURS is proud to announce that the first launch of our first publication, the Youth and Road Safety Action Kit will take place at the 5th Latin American and 4th Inter-American Health Promotion and Health Education Conference. Our key partner in the production of this kit, the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) are coordinating the event.
Our Programmes Officer, Ms Nellie Ghusayni has been invited to the 5th Latin American and 4th Inter-American Health Promotion and Health Education Conference to launch and present our new road safety tool; the Youth and Road Safety Action Kit! While Ms Ghusayni cannot physically make the event, tomorrow (Thursday 12th April) will see the presenation of our new Action Kit to some of the world’s top health professionals and educators.
Check the YOURS website on Monday 16th April 2012 to view and download the action kit!
The Inernational Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) were a key partner in the development of the kit alongside the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and of course our long standing supporter and Founding Member Michelin. IUHPE invited YOURS to present the kit to major health professionals of the world at their conference.
The activities of this conference build on the accomplishments of the previous conference in Medellin Columbia in November 2009 which produced the Medellin Declaration. Since 2009 IUHPE have seen increasing global attention and effort in each of the five courses of action for health promotion articulated in that declaration. The region of the Americas has a great history of contribution to global health promotion thinking and action.
Marie-Claude Lamarre, Executive Director at IUHPE expressed, ‘Improving the health of people and communities, and contributing to a fairer world, we strongly support youth involvement in road safety. As such, YOURS and IUHPE are involved in a number of programmes aimed at reducing road traffic injuries and improving infrastructures environments and behaviors to make road travel safer for all. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has lent its technical assistance and evidence-based strategies to our efforts through the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, and recently declared motor vehicle injury prevention as a “winnable battle”.
The Kit will be available to download officially on Monday 16th April 2012 after our Director, Floor Lieshout presents the Kit to the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration in Washington DC on the same day. You can read more about our launch at the UNRSC in Washington. You can also expect to recieve a newsflash about the Kit to your email. To receive this, you must sign up to our newsletter. You can do this by inputting your email on ‘Sign up to newsletter’ box on the YOURS Homepage.
YOURS would like to thank of our sponsors and partners for supporting the development and production of this kit and we look forward to sharing this with you on Monday!