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On June 21-22, 2021 the 4th International Conference on Non-Communicable Diseases “Injury and Violence Prevention - Global Perspectives” was held in the framework of the ongoing project ,,iCREATE: Increasing Injury Capacity in Research in Eastern Europe" at TSU Faculty of Medicine funded by NIH Fogarty International Center (USA). The conference was held online via Zoom.
The welcome session was lead by the following speakers: Professor Nino Okribelashvili, Vice-Rector (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University), Dr. Tamar Gabunia, First Deputy Minister (Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia), Professor Nunu Mitskevich, the Deputy Minister (Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia), Professor Amiran Gamkrelidze, Director of the National Center for Diseases Control and Public Health, Professor Dimitri Kordzaia, the Dean of the TSU Faculty of Medicine, Professor Corinne Peek-Asa, Project Coordinator (USA), Madalina Coman, coordinator in Romania, and coordinator in Georgia Professor Nino Chikhladze.
The welcome session was followed by 4 different sessions during which students from partner countries and institutions (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Yerevan State Medical University After M.Heratsi, Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine And Pharmacy) presented their research projects. The topics of the sessions were: injury prevention, traumatic brain injury, and prevention of violence. The fourth session featured presentations prepared by participants of SCOPE Summer School (organized by University of Iowa (USA) and Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca (Romania). The conference was closed with concluding remarks by the project coordinators. Continuation of collaboration, joint researches and translation of the research into effective preventive actions have been targeted for the future.
