Global Road Safety: Country Profiles

This report from the World Health Organization explores the progress made toward Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 16.2: to “end abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence and torture of children.” According to the report, violence impacts the lives of more than 1 billion children, and it is estimated that half of children aged 2-17 experience some form of violence each year. Around one third of students aged 11 to 15 worldwide have experienced…

This case study describes Vietnam’s implementation of improved helmet laws to reduce road-traffic injuries and deaths. Beginning in 2002, new leadership of Vietnam’s National Traffic Safety Committee created a window of opportunity for helmet legislation, while greater availability of affordable, climate-appropriate helmets contributed to the enabling conditions. This case provides an overview of the strategic approach the government took by introducing and launching a new compulsory helmet law in 2007, “Resolution 32”; ongoing enforcement and…

The Population Council has worked for the last 70 years to inform critical health and development issues through social science, public health, and biomedical research. Their mission is “to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources.” Integral to this mission is to make scholarship more open, accessible, and reusable and to provide the broadest access possible to…