Plenary sessions

Opening Plenary Session — Monday 28 November, 8:30am – 10:30am

The conference opened with the Welcome to Country, ministerial welcomes from federal and South Australian health ministers, and the convenor's introduction. The World Health Organization spoke twice: a short video opening from the Director-General and a longer conference welcome from the director of the department that runs the organisation's injury and violence work. The two supporting hosts, AIPN and AUSA, each gave a short welcome. The session closed with a keynote from Peter Frazer, the road safety advocate who founded Australia's National Road Safety Week after his daughter Sarah was killed in a roadside crash. It was co-chaired by Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin of PHAA and Associate Professor Janneke Berecki of the Monash University Accident Research Centre.

• Welcome to Country: Mr Jack Buckskin, Kuma Kaaru Cultural Services
• Minister Welcome: The Hon. Mark Butler MP, Minister for Mental Health and Ageing
• Minister Welcome and Opening: The Hon. Chris Picton MP, Minister for Health and Wellbeing, SA
• Safety 2022 Convenor Introductory Remarks: Professor Richard Franklin
• Director General WHO Opening (video): Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
• WHO Conference Welcome: Dr Etienne Krug
• AIPN Conference Welcome: Ms Keziah Bennett-Brook
• AUSA Conference Welcome: Mr Xin Li
• Keynote guest Speaker: Mr Peter Frazer, SARAH
• Co-Chairs: Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin; Associate Professor Janneke Berecki

Plenary Session 2 — First Nations Injury Prevention, Monday 28 November, 11:00am – 12:30pm

Supported by the Australasian Injury Prevention Network, this plenary brought together Indigenous practitioners and advocates from Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. Trish Meekins, an Anishnaabe therapist and teacher from the Saugeen Ojibway Nation, gave a session of circle teachings built on the medicine wheel framework, walking the audience through the life cycle and the four aspects of a balanced self. Mareta Hunt, who directs Safekids Aotearoa, and Antoinette Braybrook, chief executive of the Aboriginal family violence service Djirra, also spoke; their session titles were still listed as to be confirmed in the program published on 9 November 2022.

• Ms Trish Meekins, Nikaanaganaa Counselling & Learning Centre — 'Living Life in Balance: From an Anishinabek Perspective'
• Ms Mareta Hunt, Director, Safekids Aotearoa, New Zealand
• Ms Antoinette Braybrook, CEO, Djirra

Plenary Session 3 — The Future; Technology and Big Data, Tuesday 29 November, 9:00am – 10:30am

Chaired by Dr Amy Peden of the University of NSW and supported by Royal Life Saving Australia, this plenary looked at what new technology and large datasets are doing to injury prevention. Simone Pettigrew spoke about vehicle automation and related innovation and what they mean for road users and for wellbeing more broadly — safer roads, but also crowded footpaths, delivery bots, drones and flying taxis, and the policy decisions that will decide whether those changes help or harm. Rakhi Dandona used Global Burden of Disease estimates for suicide deaths and road traffic injuries in India to show how such data has been used to prompt action, what got in the way, and how big data can be made to hold the attention of policy makers. Paul Okyere's title was still listed as to be confirmed.

• Keynote Speaker: Professor Simone Pettigrew — 'The implications of vehicle autonomy and other forms of innovation for road-user safety and general well-being'
• Keynote Speaker: Professor Rakhi Dandona — 'Using GBD Study to address injury decision-making to save lives: hits and misses experience from India in use of big data'
• Keynote Speaker: Dr Paul Okyere
• Chair: Dr Amy Peden, University of NSW

Reimagining Injury Prevention Closing Plenary — Wednesday 30 November, 2:00pm – 3:30pm

The closing plenary was co-chaired by Associate Professor Ben Beck of AIPN and Thi Thu Le Pham of Monash University. Brett Shannon, an occupational and environmental medicine registrar and the first known Aboriginal trainee in the specialty, argued that Indigenous injury prevention policy has never moved in a straight line, and set out a framework for building evidence-based policy using Indigenous occupational injury prevention as the worked example. Rosemary Addis spoke on mobilising finance for prevention at scale, tracing how a shift in what investors count as return is opening new ways to fund safety work. Alessandra Guedes of UNICEF Innocenti spoke remotely; her title was not listed in the program published on 9 November 2022.

• Keynote Speaker: Professor Alessandra Guedes, UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight (presenting virtually)
• Keynote Speaker: Dr Brett Shannon — 'Indigenous Injury Prevention – An Occupational Physicians perspective'
• Keynote Speaker: Professor Rosemary Addis AM — 'Capital Ideas: Mobilising finance for prevention at scale'
• Co-Chairs: Associate Professor Ben Beck, AIPN; Thi Thu Le Pham, Monash University

Conference Closing Session — Wednesday 30 November, 3:30pm – 4:30pm

The final session, chaired by Associate Professor Janneke Berecki, announced the International Safety Media Awards, wrapped up the early-career program, and carried closing remarks from the World Health Organization, the conference convenor and the International Organising Committee, before the handover to the host of the 2024 conference.

• ISMA Awards: Ms Marcia Howell, Safe Alaskans
• Early Career Wrap Up: Dr Amy Peden, University of NSW
• WHO Closing Remarks: Caroline Lukaszyk, World Health Organization
• Conference Convenor Closing Remarks: Professor Richard Franklin
• IOC Closing Remarks: Dr Olive Kobusingye and Dr Etienne Krug
• Hand over to the 2024 destination
• Chair: Associate Professor Janneke Berecki, Monash University Accident Research Centre

People named on the page

• Mr Peter Frazer — Keynote speaker, Opening Plenary Session — President Safer Australian Roads And Highways, (SARAH)
• Ms Trish Meekins — Speaker, First Nations Injury Prevention plenary — Therapist, Trainer, Mediator, Administrator Nikaanaganaa Counselling & Learning Centre
• Ms Mareta Hunt — Speaker, First Nations Injury Prevention plenary — Director, Safekids Aotearoa, New Zealand
• Ms Antoinette Braybrook — Speaker, First Nations Injury Prevention plenary — CEO, Djirra
• Professor Simone Pettigrew — Keynote speaker, The Future; Technology and Big Data — Program Director, Food Policy, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney
• Dr Paul Okyere — Keynote speaker, The Future; Technology and Big Data — Health Promotion Unit, School of Public Health Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Tech, Ghana
• Professor Rakhi Dandona — Keynote speaker, The Future; Technology and Big Data — University of Washington, Seattle, USA & Public Health Foundation of India, Gurugram, India
• Professor Alessandra Guedes — Keynote speaker, Reimagining Injury Prevention Closing Plenary — UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight
• Dr Brett Shannon — Keynote speaker, Reimagining Injury Prevention Closing Plenary — Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Illinois – Chicago
• Professor Rosemary Addis AM — Keynote speaker, Reimagining Injury Prevention Closing Plenary — Managing Partner, Mondiale Impact; Enterprise Professor, University of Melbourne

Sources

1. Safety 2022 program (PDF, 31 pages, dated 9 November 2022) — web.archive.org, read 15 September 2026.
2. Program — web.archive.org, read 15 September 2026.
3. Keynote Speakers — web.archive.org, read 15 September 2026.