SAFER Lunch seminar with Matts-Åke Belin, WHO: The global status report on Road Safety
We are delighted to invite all our SAFER partners to our first SAFER Thursday lunch seminar for 2024, where we are honored to host Dr. Matts-Åke Belin, Global Lead, Decade of Action for Road Safety, World Health Organization (WHO)!
Matts-Åke Belin will present a comprehensive overview of the WHO's latest report on the progress of traffic safety development, officially published in December 2023. This seminar promises to be an insightful session, providing key insights into the global landscape of traffic safety.
The event kicks off with a joint networking lunch from 11:30 to 12:00, followed by the seminar starting at 12:00. The event is exclusively for SAFER's partners, and registration for the networking lunch must be completed by 12:00 on Wednesday, January 31st. If you wish to participate online, no registration is required.
We look forward to your participation and the opportunity to engage in meaningful discussions, very welcome!
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About Dr. Matts-Åke Belin
Dr. Matts-Åke Belin is, since January 2022, Global Lead for the Decade of Acton for Road Safety at the World Health Organization (WHO). Dr. Belin has over 30 years of experience within the Swedish government where he primarily worked with overall safety policies, strategies and collaboration with different stakeholders. Before Dr. Belin joined the WHO he was the Director of Vision Zero Academy at the Swedish Transport Administration. Dr. Belin has had several international assignments, such as chairman of the technical committee 3.1 on Road Safety at the World Road Association; international representative at the US Transportation Research Board (TRB) standing committee on Transportation Safety Management; and Swedish delegate in the UN Road Safety Collaboration. Dr. Belin has a PhD in public health policy from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and he is also affiliated with KTH Royal Technology Institute where he is serving as an adjunct professor on traffic safety.
About the report
The Global status report on road safety 2023, published in December, shows that the number of annual road traffic deaths has fallen slightly to 1.19 million. The report shows that efforts to improve road safety are having an impact, and that significant reductions in road traffic deaths can be made if proven measures are applied. Despite this, the price paid for mobility remains too high. Road traffic injuries remain the leading killer of children and young people aged 5-29 years. More than half of fatalities occur among pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, in particular those living in low and middle-income countries. Urgent action is needed if the global goal of at least halving road traffic deaths and injuries by the year 2030 is to be achieved.
Please note that Matts-Åke will join the event online and will hence not participate i the networking activities.
