Injury prevention stakeholders at all levels in Canada, local, provincial, territorial and national, recognize that there is a need to increase awareness of the injury issue and efforts to prevent what is often a silent epidemic. One of the main obstacles to having the injury issue recognized in Canada is the lack of a critical mass of knowledgeable practitioners advocating for the issue and evidence based practice.

The main objective of the curriculum is to increase the number of individuals across Canada with the same basic understanding of the

• epidemiology in injury
• principles of injury prevention
• basic injury data systems
• applied research and planning methodologies
• program develpoment, implementation and evaluation methods as they apply to injury prevention