The second international conference on reducing burden of traffic accidents, Shiraz, Iran

In concordance with the UN announcement of "Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020", and for promoting a collaborative action for reducing traffic accidents' burden, Health Policy Research Centre, organized this international conference for second time.8 Authorities and Participants The second international conference on reducing burden of traffic accidents; challenges and strategies was held by Health Policy Research Centre affiliated with Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran in collaboration with several other organizations and agencies including Iranian Police, Iranian emergency medical services, Iranian Forensic Medicine Organization and Oklahoma State University, (Oklahoma, USAon 2012 March 10th and 11th at Velayat Conventional Centre, Shiraz, Iran. The main themes of the conference were evidence based review of: * Interventions and projects to reduce traffic accidents * Environmental determinants of traffic accidents * Enhancing safety of pedestrians and road users * Comprehensive traffic accident registration * Socio-cultural factors affecting traffic accidents Sessions and Speeches Overall 350 abstracts in different subjects of traffic accidents were sent to the seminar secretariat out of which 123 were selected by scientific board of the conference after peer review for presentation (26 oral and 97 poster presentations).