Welcome
From Winter 1994Volume I, Number 1
This is the inaugural issue of Building Bridges, a national newsletter to promote collaborative activities between traffic safety and public health professionals. Each issue will highlight the work of selected agencies and describe resources, research, and projects that promote traffic safety.
Building Bridges is published by Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) and funded by a grant from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). In 1993, NHTSA conducted a nationwide assessment of motor vehicle injury prevention activities undertaken by highway safety and public health agencies. The respondents to this survey identified a need for a mechanism to share information about collaborative activities that involved traffic safety, public health, and other agencies. This need was also articulated by participants at the highway safety/public health workshop held at the 1993 Lifesavers Conference.
This issue of Building Bridges will focus on regional activities in which public health and traffic safety professionals work together to share ideas, resources, and information. future issues will highlight activities involving other federal agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), and the Indian Health Service (IHS).
We hope that Building Bridges will assist professionals in public health and traffic safety to do their jobs more efficiently by drawing on the strength, ideas, and resources that collaboration can provide. If you are engaged in a project, have produced a publication, or are holding a conference or workshop that you feel would interest our readers, please let us know. We want to produce Building Bridges in the same spirit of collaboration we seek to promote. And we can only do that with your help.
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