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Global Health Research Programme: A 'safe Systems' Approach for Enabling Traffic Injury Prevention In Nepal (SAFETrIP Nepal)

The objectives of our four work packages are:Work Package 1:• To identify existing policies and programmes at local, provincial and national levels of government in Nepal that can be linked to evidence-based recommendations for safer road systems• To understand the current reach and implementation of these policies and programmes• To identify the barriers and enablers to further implementation of these policies and programmes• To develop a toolkit for those working at local and provincial government level to help them improve road safetyWork Package 2:• To identify the factors that influence how bus transport is currently provided in Nepal, and how those factors affect bus safety• To establish how these factors affect the current provision of bus transport and which factors can best be used as levers towards safer buses and bus services• To identify which established, cost-effective, interventions are needed to shift current practice and policy• To generate agreement across sectors on recommendations to make bus travel saferWork Package 3:• To determine the health, social and economic impacts of being injured in a road traffic crash in Nepal.• To understand the facilitators and barriers to optimal handover of road traffic injured patients from prehospital carers to hospital emergency department staff• To establish stakeholder agreement on a best practice care pathway for road traffic injured patients to be used in hospital emergency departmentsWork Package 4:• To deliver five, seven-week online good data governance courses between 2023 and 2026• To develop and make available training materials that enable the safe collection, use and storage of research data• To strengthen the capacity for peer-to-peer learning on good data governance within and between low and middle-income countries.