Carrie Deane can’t remember anything from the night she was struck by an oncoming car, but the injuries she sustained would take well over five years to heal.

Deane’s injuries included shattered bones in her left leg, a broken shoulder and jaw as well as multiple cuts to her face and neck, and damage to 80% of her teeth.

During the weeks spent in Royal North Shore Hospitals ICU, and the subsequent year spent recovering at home, Deane underwent 9 reconstructive surgeries to get back on her feet.

The emotional and financial toll it took on herself and her family was immense, and at times Deane worried that life would never be the same.

“I had this idea that I would have to go through life with the accident defining me. I think, as a 25 year old woman, I was very worried about how I would live the rest of my life looking as I did.”

Every third Sunday of November, World Remembrance Day recognises the victims, their families and emergency service workers touched by road traffic incidents.

Professor Rebecca Ivers, believes the day of remembrance is crucial in highlighting all the effects of road crashes.

“It’s not just death, it is the serious injury that people sustain, and the life-long disability and the associated economic costs. It has a huge impact on productivity in low income countries, because most people who are killed or injured are of working age”

Our Injury Division have taken up and working on multiple projects to educate people on how to keep themselves and their passengers safe.

The George Institute for Global Health is a partner in the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration, whose mission is to improve global road safety and potentially prevent the loss of 5 million lives during the Decade of Action for Road Safety between 2011 and 2020.

TGI UK Executive Director Terry Dwyer and Professor Kazem Rahimi will deliver a lecture on 13 November at the Oxford Martin School. Click here for more info.

"New strategies for disease prevention and management, from infancy to old age" by Prof Terry Dwyer and Dr Kazem Rahimi
Thursday 13 November, 3.30 – 5.00pm, Oxford Martin School, Corner of Catte and Holywell Street

There remain many unanswered questions in medical research about both the prevention and treatment of disease, but new technologies are opening up new opportunities to provide insights. One approach, in particular, the capacity to assemble and analyse very large health datasets, is underpinning the work of both speakers addressing problems at both ends of life.
Kazem Rahimi is utilising innovative digital technologies and large healthcare datasets to find better approaches to managing established cardiovascular disease including heart failure. Terry Dwyer, on the other hand, is pooling data on one million mothers and babies to help uncover causes of childhood cancer - an area where, despite considerable effort, little progress has been made over recent decades.

Speakers:
· Professor Terry Dwyer, Executive Director of the George Institute for Global Health at the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Epidemiology, University of Oxford.
· Dr Kazem Rahimi, Associate Professor, is the Deputy Director of the George Institute for Global Health at the Oxford Martin School; James Martin Senior Fellow in Essential Healthcare at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

For more information and to register click here
To watch live online click here

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Senior researchers from The George Institute for Global Health are being hailed as women leaders.

Today, Professor Rebecca Ivers was announced as one of Australia’s most influential female innovators, in The Australian Financial Review and Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards in the Innovation category.

Yesterday, Professor Jane Latimer was featured as one of Australia’s 31 most powerful part-timers on the website Women’s Agenda. Professor Latimer says her international reputation and achievements have been made possible by her part-time status at TGI.

“Had my research position been offered on a full-time basis only I would have had to reconsider my choice of career,” Professor Latimer said.

Respiratory Division Director Professor Christine Jenkins is featured in a new book by ABC broadcaster and journalist Geraldine Doogue, titled The Climb – Conversations with Australian Women in Power.

In the book she talks about how she has managed to juggle being a researcher, doctor, mother, wife, friend, sister, daughter, reader, gym-attender, and gardener. In what is a gigantic understatement, she says: “I have a lot of energy and can fit a lot into my day. I can burn the candle at both ends…”

Global TGI executive director Professor Robyn Norton, who co-founded the institute 15 years ago, says she is delighted at the recognition of the work of her female colleagues, for their leadership as women as well as their international reputations as academics.

“We are putting a big emphasis on working out how we can help our female researchers progress to become future leaders.”

“TGI has put in place a gender equity group to work out how best to provide practical solutions at times of career disruption because of family commitments.”

Professor Norton says recent weeks have been significant for achievements by TGI female researchers. Half of the four recent NHMRC research fellowships awarded to TGI researchers went to females.

“I would like to congratulate Professor Anushka Patel and Professor Cathie Sherrington for the funding wins, which will help them with their flagship projects.”

In addition, Professor Patel has become a Fellow and a Member of Council of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, and Dr Lizzy Dunford recently received the World Obesity Federation’s New Investigator Award.