Injury Prevention Across the Life Span

IPALS was created to focus research expertise on reducing the burden of unintentional injury across all ages in Canada. We are researchers, policy-makers and consumer organizations who want to position Canada as a leader in injury research and prevention. [ more about us... ]

The purpose of IPALS (Injury Prevention Across the Life Span) is to develop and enhance collaboration and disseminate information between injury researchers. The Vision of the Injury Prevention Across the Life Span (IPALS) team - a multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral research team - is to reduce the burden of unintentional injury in Canada. 

The aim of this research is to reduce the burden of injury in Canada.  Research objectives are:

• To examine injury occurrence across the life span using a population health framework;
• To quantify the influence of individual (micro) and contextual (macro) level factors on injury occurrence;
• In three populations - Child, Workforce, and Older Adults. 

IPALS Symposium

The theme of the inaugural IPALS symposium held in October 2004 was interdisciplinary collaboration.  This event allowed IPALS team members to network and forge new relationships with researchers from the Ontario Training Centre, the Alberta Centre for Injury Research and Control at the University of Alberta, Lakehead University and Queens University. Read the full symposium summary here (PDF, 70K).

A second symposium was held in September 2006. Read full symposium summary here.

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News

• Upcoming Injury Related Conferences are available via the links page.
• 9th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion
  March 15-18, 2008
  Merida, Mexico
  safety2008mx.info/ing/
• 2008 BC Injury Prevention Conference
  “Partnering with the Public for Injury Prevention“
  Date: November 19-21st, 2008
  Conference Hotel: Coast Plaza Hotel & Suites
  Location: 1763 Comox St., Vancouver, BC.
  Conference E-mail: conference2008@cw.bc.ca