Steering Committee

In 2004 a Steering Committee was formed as part of the Injury ICE Strategic Planning process. The committee is charged with guiding the functioning of the Injury ICE with special regard to composition of the ICE, its structure, meeting planning and general oversight. The members of the committee are listed below along with a brief biographic piece.

Many researchers have played a significant role in the ongoing work of ICE. Their names and affiliations can be found on the List of Participants included with each of the meetings they attended. See ICE Symposiums and Meetings web page.

Lois A. Fingerhut, MA
Ms. Fingerhut chairs the International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on Injury Statistics, a multinational project, the focus of which is to understand cross national differences in injury mortality and morbidity. She serves as the Acting Branch Chief, Special Projects Branch and the Special Assistant for Injury Epidemiology in the Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Hyattsville, Maryland. She is also a co chair of the Data Committee of the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services section of the American Public Health Association, and serves on the editorial board of Injury Prevention. She is a member of the Coordination and Maintenance Group of the International Classification of External Causes of Injury (ICECI). Her research includes analyses of injury data from NCHS health care and vital statistics data sets. Ms. Fingerhut has been at NCHS since 1977 and received a Masters degree in demography from Georgetown University in 1975.

Birthe Frimodt-Moller, MD
Birthe Frimodt-Moller is Research Director of the Centre for Injury Research at the National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark. She graduated in medicine from the University of Copenhagen and holds a postgraduate specialization in Public Health. Dr. Frimodt-Moller worked ten years in research within primary health care, and ten years in the National Board of Health, Denmark setting up an injury register. She was project leader for 5 years on a national community based intervention project based on the injury register. She relocated along with the Danish Injury Register to the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) in 1999, when the Centre for Injury Research was established. She participates in national and European projects (EU) on injury epidemiology, injury registration, development of injury indicators, etc. She has also participated in the Nordic working group that developed the NOMESCO Classification of External Causes of Injuries (NCECI) and in reference groups at international level concerning injury statistics and injury registration and classification. Dr. Frimodt-Moller is a consultant to the WHO-FIC Centre for the Nordic countries, Uppsala, Sweden on injury classifications and is a member of the ICECI Coordination and Maintenance Group.

James E. Harrison, Associate Professor
James Harrison is an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at Flinders University, in South Australia, where he directs the Research Centre for Injury Studies. The Research Centre operates the National Injury Surveillance Unit of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and Dr. Harrison also directs this program. He holds a degree in medicine from Melbourne University and a Master and Public Health from the University of Sydney, and is a Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine. Areas of research interest include injury prevention and control, and methods and infrastructure for public health surveillance and evaluation. He is a founding member of the Flinders Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

Yvette Holder, MPH
Mrs. Holder has been a practicing biostatistician for the past 33 years, and an epidemiologist for the past 25 years. An employee of the Pan American Health Organization for 20 years, and later of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for two years, Mrs. Holder has worked in the area of injury surveillance and prevention, starting first with traffic injury epidemiology in the English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean.
She has been involved in the design, installation and evaluation of injury surveillance systems in the Caribbean, North and South America. A participant of ICE since its inception, Mrs. Holder, along with Dr. Johan Lund, worked on the Minimum Data Set for injuries, a concept which along with her experience in designing hospital-based injury surveillance systems in environments with severe resource constraints, became the basis for the WHO document, ?Injury Surveillance Guidelines?. She developed the violence module of the ICECI and worked on a set of indicators for the monitoring of violence. Mrs. Holder for the past four years has worked as an international consultant in her fields of biostatistics, epidemiology (communicable and non-communicable diseases) and systems analysis, with focus mainly on data collection and analysis.

Susan Mackenzie, PhD
Susan is an epidemiologist with the Public Health Agency of Canada, which was formed in September 2004, mainly from the Population and Public Health Branch of Health Canada. She has worked on injury surveillance since 1991. Since first becoming involved with ICE in 1996 the projects Susan has contributed to development of the external cause of injury matrix, comparisons of international drowning mortality data, the injury indicators project, and the International Classification of External Causes of Injuries (ICECI). Susan is currently a member of the ICE Steering Committee and the ICECI Coordination and Maintenance Group.

Saakje Mulder, PhD
Saakje Mulder graduated with a Masters degree in Social Sciences and with a Master of Science in Epidemiology. She got her PhD in 2001 on the issue: Surveillance and priority-setting: Where to start in preventing home and leisure injuries?  She is Research Director of the Consumer Safety Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. As such, she is project leader of several national and international projects on all aspects of injury epidemiology. She has experience in developing indicators for priority-setting (including costs of injuries), in-depth injury research, and standardization of international injury classifications, household surveys. She also chaired several national and international working groups and committees and organized national and international conferences concerning injury epidemiology.

Ian Scott
Ian Scott is an injury prevention policy/researcher with specialist interests in child injury, product safety, and developing countries. After training as an economist/statistician in Australia, he worked on health economics and social policy before becoming interested in injury. As Director of Research and Policy for Kidsafe Australia, a national not-for-profit organization directed at prevention of unintentional injury, he was involved at state and federal level in research, implementation of interventions, and injury policy. Through the National Injury Prevention Advisory Council and state Injury Prevention Committees, he was involved in the development of national and state injury prevention plans. He was a founding member of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention (ISCAIP) and of the editorial board of the professional journal, Injury Prevention. Ian worked as a consultant on injury prevention of UNICEF and WHO is Asia and as an injury prevention specialist in the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific in the Philippines. At the Department of Injury and Violence Prevention, he is developing the WHO Strategy on child injury prevention, working on the World Report on Child Injury Prevention, and responsible for the department's injury data and analysis.

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