Road Traffic Injuries: A Global Public Health Problem

About the Event:

The Armenia-US Collaboration to Address Chronic Disease via Education in Social Determinants Science (ACCESS) Project is offering a series of health seminars devoted to the importance of social determinants influencing non-communicable diseases. Every year, 1.3 million people are killed in road traffic crashes worldwide. Between 20 and 50 million more people are injured or disabled by these events, predominantly in low and middle-income countries. Road traffic injuries cause significant social and economic losses to individuals, their families, societies, and countries. These deaths, injuries, and losses are a preventable public health problem.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Nino Paichadze is an assistant research professor in the Department of Global Health and Associate Director of the Center on Commercial Determinants of Health at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. She has more than a decade of academic and professional experience encompassing medicine and public health, with a particular focus on research and training for better prevention of and response to chronic conditions and injuries. Through numerous collaborations, she has sought to develop data-driven solutions to urgent public health challenges. Her research focuses on defining the burden of injuries and non-communicable diseases, improving data systems using digital health approaches, understanding the impact of commercial determinants on health outcomes, and research capacity development in low and middle-income countries. Dr. Paichadze holds a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she also completed her postdoctoral fellowship, and a medical degree from Tbilisi State University in Georgia.

Language: English