Building Trauma and Injury Prevention in Madagascar

In Madagascar 166,000 lives are lost each year due to road injuries and 48% of Emergency Department visits are for trauma care.  Yet, trauma and injury prevention program are non-existent in any hospital in the country. Stony Brook University plans to change this.  Collaborating with the Universite de Fianarantsoa Medical School, Stony Brook University is exporting emergency medicine as a specialty to this country of 23 million people.  Under the able leadership of William “Billy” Mallon, MD, Division Chief and International Emergency Medicine at Stony Brook University, our faculty will assist the Medical School in Fianarantsoa in addressing this problem through a systems approach that strategically balances research and training across the spectrum of research domains and emergency services.

Project Lead:

William Mallon, MD