THE ROAD TRAFFIC INJURIES RESEACH NETROWROK WOULD LIKE TO
WELCOME DR. TOZIJA FIMKA AS OUR NEW BOARD MEMBER. WE HOPE WE CAN USE HER ENERGY
AND EXPERIENCE TO IMPROVE OUR NETWORK.

Prof. Tozija is senior researcher with an active interest in the field of injuries in general and especially in road traffic injuries. She has 20 years of professional work in injury prevention and safety promotion in the Institute of Public Health.

Since 2004 Prof. Tozija is Head of the Department for Violence and Injury Control and Prevention established by her in the Institute of Public Health and is directly responsible for injury prevention in the country especially for road safety. Prof. Tozija is Adviser for Public Health Policy in the Institute of Public Health and Head of the Cair for Social Medicine at the Medical School Skopje. She is professor of social medicine and public health teaching at Medical School and School of Dentistry. She is teaching three courses at MPH Program and an elective course for injury prevention and safety promotion.

Dr Tozija has completed PhD course in Injury Research and Safety Promotion at Karolinska Institute. She has defended doctoral thesis titled as “Social-medical aspects of road traffic injuries among children and youth in the Republic of Macedonia”. She is personally and professionally dedicated to research in injury prevention and safety promotion especially for children and youth.

She was Principal investigator of many projects, among which the most recent are CDC/WHO Global school-based student health survey and WHO Community injury survey. Currently she is running TEACH VIP WHO project (teaching for violence prevention).and has translated curriculum for road safety. Since 2003 Prof. Tozija is a WHO/MOH National counterpart for Injury control and prevention and road safety. She is member of the National task force for Road Safety and participated in the preparation of the National Strategy of the Republic of Macedonia for road traffic safety (2009-2014). She is member of the Working Group of the National Coordination Body for road safety responsible for the implementation of the Action Plan and Strategy.

The most recent event was joint action with all partners in road safety for 21st November the World Day for remembrance of the road traffic victims.

Welcome!!!!!