Mission:

Through high-standard research and independent recommendations, to challenge and support citizens, governments and industries to eliminate serious health losses due to injury.

Collaborating Centre Terms of Reference:

1. To assist with the development and monitoring of regional capacity in injury prevention including data systems, research, and injury prevention policy and planning developments;
2. To contribute to solving the major unintentional injury burden in the Region (particularly road traffic injury, drowning, falls, poisoning) through research, training, leading-edge workshops and general information exchange;
3. To contribute to suicide prevention in the Region by conducting research on access to the means of suicide and assisting countries to develop and implement policies aimed at reducing access to methods such as poisoning and falls from heights; and
4. To assist the WHO regional Office for the Western Pacific to develop, implement and evaluate a Regional injury prevention strategy.