What is the Australian Injury Prevention Network?
The Australian Injury Prevention Network (AIPN) is the peak national body advocating for injury prevention and control in Australia.
The AIPN was formed in 1996 in order to establish a framework for collaboration between injury researchers, policymakers and practitioners and to provides a coordinated voice among injury prevention professionals.
The AIPN is a not-for-profit, non-government organisation with membership from all sectors of the injury prevention community.
The main goal of the AIPN is to facilitate the minimisation of injury-related harm throughout Australia for all vulnerable population groups by coordinating the expertise of injury prevention researchers, practitioners, and policy makers.
The scope of the AIPN interest areas includes:
- Injury prevention;
- Treatment and rehabilitation;
- Research and surveillance;
- Education and training; and
- Information exchange.
AIPN Advocacy for injury prevention action in the new government [April 2008]
The Australian Injury Prevention Network was originally formed to be an “out of government voice” on issues to do with the prevention of injury. Lobbying and advocacy does not always come naturally to all members of the AIPN and we certainly need to learn to do it better. The good news is that we are making progress with a meeting with the Minister for Health’s adviser recently. We discussed in the meeting a range of the concerns we have about the inactivity around most of
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We welcome any comments or discussion on other ways forward for bringing injury prevention back onto the agenda’s of all of the relevant agencies that have influence to make a difference.
Please contact Prof Ann Williamson, President, AIPN, a.williamson@unsw.edu.au
or Pam Albany, Information Officer, AIPN, palbany@iinet.net.au
Health action on prevention of injury – a suggested starting point [29kb]
"Injury prevention is the best treatment" The Australian 3 May 2008, Dr Lesley Russell.