{"id":6024,"date":"2016-04-19T13:47:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T13:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/?p=6024"},"modified":"2022-11-15T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T19:17:12","slug":"who-applications-for-mentor-vip-open-until-6-may-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/news\/who-applications-for-mentor-vip-open-until-6-may-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO &#8211; Applications for MENTOR-VIP open until 6 May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6025 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/carsp-acpser\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WHO.jpg\" alt=\"WHO\" width=\"176\" height=\"55\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WHO's global mentoring programme, MENTOR-VIP, is designed to assist junior injury prevention practitioners to develop specific skills through structured collaboration with a more experienced person who has volunteered to act as a mentor. Since its inception in 2007, more than 70 mentorships on a range of violence and injury topics have been undertaken. Recent collaborations include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Review and situation analysis of poisoning; development of an intervention strategy or plan for poisoning prevention in Bangladesh;<\/li>\n<li>Hospital-based bedside counselling to prevent child injury in China;<\/li>\n<li>Study of pedestrian knowledge, attitudes and behaviour around a busy highway in India;<\/li>\n<li>Gap\/problem analysis of a national injury surveillance system and improvements to surveillance system design and implementation in \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Jamaica;<\/li>\n<li>Literature review of child injury and application of Haddon's Matrix to case series in Pakistan;<\/li>\n<li>Social acceptability of barriers to prevent drowning in children and publication of papers summarizing drowning prevention in the Philippines;<\/li>\n<li>Linkage of data on road traffic injuries using police and hospital data and development of a policy brief in Romania;<\/li>\n<li>Preparation of research proposal on psycho-social factors related to suicide in South Africa;<\/li>\n<li>School area road safety assessments for primary school children in United Republic of Tanzania.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MENTOR-VIP is an excellent opportunity for committed injury and violence prevention practitioners to improve their skills and benefit from the guidance of a more practiced mentor. Applicants who wish to apply to be mentored during 2016-2017, or individuals who would like to volunteer to be mentors, may find out more information about MENTOR-VIP by visiting: http:\/\/www.who.int\/violence_injury_prevention\/capacitybuilding\/mentor_vip\/\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact Dr David Meddings (<a href=\"mailto:meddingsd@who.int\"><strong>meddingsd@who.int<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Etienne Krug, MD, MPH<br \/>\nDirector<br \/>\nManagement of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention<br \/>\nWorld Health Organization<br \/>\n20 Avenue Appia<br \/>\n1211 Geneva 27<br \/>\nSwitzerland<\/p>\n<p>Tel: + 41 22 791 3535\/2881<br \/>\nFax: + 41 22 791 4489<br \/>\nE-mail: :\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:kruge@who.int\"><strong>kruge@who.int<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO&#8217;s global mentoring programme, MENTOR-VIP, is designed to assist junior injury prevention practitioners to develop specific skills through structured collaboration with a more experienced person who has volunteered to act as a mentor. 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