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IPRC

PHFI Injury Prevention Research Centre

Preventing injury. Improving recovery. Reducing suffering.

We strive to reduce avoidable deaths, disabilities, and suffering due to injuries and traumatic events

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Our Approach

At IPRC, we believe that preventing injuries requires more than understanding individual events—it requires understanding the systems, environments, and inequities that shape risk, recovery, and resilience. Across every area of our work, from road safety and suicide prevention to drowning, falls, snakebite, and emerging priorities such as climate-related injuries and gender-based violence, we are guided by a common scientific approach.

We measure what matters

Effective prevention begins with reliable evidence. We generate robust estimates of injury burden, strengthen surveillance systems, and develop data that enable governments and health systems to understand the true scale and distribution of injuries.

We identify who is left behind

Injuries do not affect all populations equally. We examine how age, gender, geography, occupation, socioeconomic disadvantage, and other social determinants influence injury risk, access to care, recovery, and long-term outcomes, ensuring that prevention efforts are equitable and inclusive.

We understand injuries within their broader context

We look beyond individual behaviours to examine the environmental, social, economic, and health system factors that shape injury risk. By adopting a systems perspective, we identify opportunities for prevention that extend across sectors and disciplines.

We generate evidence for action

Our research is designed to inform decisions. We work closely with governments, health systems, communities, and international partners to translate evidence into policies, programmes, and practices that reduce injury, improve care, and strengthen health systems.

We work together to solve complex problems

Preventing injuries requires collaboration across disciplines and sectors. We bring together expertise from epidemiology, public health, clinical medicine, engineering, social sciences, health economics, policy, implementation science, and community engagement to develop practical solutions with lasting impact.

Together, these principles define our approach to injury research—one that combines scientific rigour with collaboration, equity, and a commitment to translating evidence into meaningful improvements in health and wellbeing.