BCIRPU Associate Director Dr. Shelina Babul will collaborate with UBC Okanagan Professor Dr. Paul van Donkelaar on a project that will pilot a virtual reality training tool to help police recognize signs and symptoms of brain injury from concussion and strangulation...
Please join us in extending our sincere congratulations to Dr. Shelina Babul on her promotion by the Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, to Clinical Professor. This promotion is in recognition of Dr. Babul’s ongoing program of research, and in...
BCIRPU researchers have received funding to explore how public health policies put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic affected injuries among children and youth. The one-year project will look at the consequence of quarantine on unintentional injuries at home,...
Our Injury Insights provide a quick snapshot of current injury prevention research and are valuable tools for educational purposes. Alcohol Poisoning Among BC Youth (January 2022) Snowmobile Safety (Nov 2021) Material Wealth, Social Connectedness, and Injury...
As the situation around COVID-19 developed throughout the year, the BCIRPU continued its essential efforts to reduce the burden of injury in British Columbia. Read about last year’s achievements and highlights in our BCIRPU Annual Report 2020-2021.