Child Injury Prevention and Safety focuses on evidence-based strategies to reduce unintentional injuries—the leading cause of death and disability in children—including road traffic injuries, drowning, burns, poisonings and household falls. This session targets pediatricians, emergency clinicians, public-health professionals, injury-prevention specialists and policy-makers. Presentations will synthesise injury epidemiology, effective prevention interventions (child restraints, pool fencing, smoke-alarm programmes), and scalable community education campaigns that change caregiver behaviour. Clinical content will cover anticipatory guidance approaches during well-child visits, screening for risk factors in vulnerable households, and brief intervention techniques that motivate safety changes. Translational talks will highlight data-driven approaches: linking trauma registries with public-health surveillance, using geospatial analysis to identify high-risk neighbourhoods, and evaluating the cost-effectiveness of prevention programmes.

Practical workshops will teach clinicians how to deliver concise, actionable safety counselling during routine visits—what to prioritise at each age—and how to use teach-back methods to confirm caregiver understanding. Sessions on school and community partnerships will present successful models for childproofing initiatives, bike-helmet distribution programmes, and policy campaigns that raised seat-belt and car-seat usage. Panels will address equity, showing how injury risk clusters with socioeconomic disadvantage and how targeted interventions (subsidised safety equipment, home-visiting) close gaps. Emergency and trauma-focused modules will review paediatric trauma triage, burn-first-aid basics, and anticipatory planning for mass-casualty events affecting children.

Attendees will receive practical toolkits: age-specific anticipatory guidance checklists, community partner templates, sample policy language for local advocacy, and evaluation metrics to measure impact (injury incidence, emergency visits, equipment distribution coverage). The session emphasises measurable outcomes and provides pathways for clinicians to move from individual counselling to community-level prevention initiatives.