What do you do at the Centre?

As a commuter, I am interested in making roads and everyday travel safer. A lot of it started with looking at how children get to school and the risks they face along the way, then grew into bigger studies — talking to officials, doctors, and road users to figure out why roads feel unsafe, and setting up hospital-based tracking of road accident patients to get real numbers instead of relying on underreported official stats. More recently I moved into what happens after a crash too, like training communities to stop severe bleeding before an ambulance arrives, since that’s often the difference between life and death.  I help turn all this into practical action — building proposals and partnerships and translate findings into policy and training, and connect with government bodies get that work funded and implemented. In short: I study why road injuries happen, track how bad the problem really is, and build the systems to prevent and respond to them.