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The aim of this presentation, hosted by Dr. Hans-Yngve Berg from the Swedish Transport Agency, is to describe how it is possible to put science in to practice by using the example of the UNECE Road Safety Action Plan 2023 – 2030, research results from the public health sector used in the discussion of a need of reformed definition of “serious injury” in the UNECE Global Forum for Road Safety (UNECE\WP.1) as an input to the UNECE Road Safety Action Plan 2023 – 2030.

The ECE Road Safety Action Plan 2023 – 2030 will stem from elements and principles contained in the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021- 2030 and strives to provide support to countries for the implementation of the Global Plan. It will contribute to achieving the global road safety target of a 50 per cent reduction in road death and by the United Nations road safety legal instruments as a basis for an integrated safe system approach.

Also included in the Global Plan is the ITC Recommendations for Enhancing National Road Safety Systems (ITC Recommendations) adopted at its eighty-second session in 2020 (ECE/TRANS/2020/9).

With the development of indicators for the different areas, ITC will provide a monitoring tool allowing countries to benchmark their progress in implementing the ITC Recommendations and the ITC Strategy until 2030 with its special priority for road safety as well as their impact on the national road safety situation. 

The ECE Road Safety Action Plan 2023 – 2030 is designed as a living document that will be updated by regular input provided by ITC Working Parties.

Two of the outcome indicators is about fatalities and injuries (RTIs), these are road crash fatalities (killed per 100,000 population) and road crash injuries (serious injuries (MAIS3+[1][2]) per 100,000 population). 

However, even if the proposed indicator of MAIS3+ is a good step forward it is still essential for policy making and regulation to pay attention to the fact that negative consequences of RTIs can be long-term and can arise even for apparently minor non-fatal injurious (eg. MAIS1 and MAIS2 injuries). A chosen indicator of MAIS2+ would therefore be more compliant and closer to the spirit of Agenda 2030, and to the transformational role of safe mobility would have once implemented across the globe.

ITC have invited its working parties to discuss the draft Road Safety Action Plan 2023 – 2030. UNECE\WP1 has due to the chosen indicator of MAIS3+ discussed a proposed changed of perspective, as well as further elaborate alternative measures and related policies showing the long-term burden of road traffic injuries as contribution to the global public health analysis.

About Dr. Hans-Yngve Berg

Dr. Berg is currently working as a senior administration officer at The Swedish Transport Agency, Sweden. He is also accredit by the Swedish government to be a vice-chair of the UNECE\WP.1 expert group GE.3. Associate professor Berg is also working on how to regulate a road transport system, one of his work task is to develop principles of how a regulatory and supervisory body in the transport field best should use its mandate in order to contribute to the fulfilment of different national goals and the United Nation sustainable development goals, including target 3.6, road traffic safety.

He has a Degree of Doctor of Philosophy since 2001 (Social Medicine and Public Health Science). He has also a Master of Social Science in Education and a Bachelor of Science in Human Resource Development and Labour Relations, All degrees are from Linköping University, Sweden 

He is also currently an associate professor at the department of Global Public Health at Karolinska Institute where he is he giving lectures and tutoring master- and doctoral students within the field of road traffic safety and its connection to global health nationally and internationally, he is conducting a research on road traffic safety, especially monitoring the Swedish road safety development and how road traffic injuries influence people´s health and quality of life. He is also doing research about how injury data bases can be used as an important tool for legislative preventive efforts in road traffic. Part of his role is to give information, support the public and to the authorities as well as to other actors involved in the area of traffic safety, mainly on the topics of traffic safety, evaluations, research methodology etc. 

Associate professor Berg has also been working as a consultant for Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia within a project named “Young Driver Research Initiative”, as a road safety consultant in Abu Dhabi and Morocco and as a road safety specialist at the Swedish National Society for Road Safety and as a researcher at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute. He has also given many lectures in many countries about global public health in relation to road traffic safety, e.g in Oman, Russia, USA, Japan, South Africa, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Morocco, France, Portugal, UK, Finland, Denmark, Norway, and others.

Hans-Yngve will be hosting this seminar online
 

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