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Name: Ian Pike BSPE, MSc, PhD

Education: Kinesiology, Health Promotion

Affiliation: UBC, BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit (BCIRPU)

Titles: Director, BCIRPU. Director, BC Children's Hospital Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP). Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UBC.

CYHRNet Role: Co-Leader, Child and Youth Health Indicators related to Injury Prevention

Research Interests:Unintentional and intentional injury prevention surveillance, development of Injury Indicators for children and youth, injury knowledge translation and public health policy and practice, social marketing to prevent injury, injury prevention cost benefit, worksite health promotion

Website: Dr. Pike's Website

Email: ipike@cw.bc.ca

Priority Initiatives & Co-Leaders

CYHRNet strives to collaborate with other MSFHR networks to ensure a sustained focus on infants, children and youth. Network efforts have tended to focus on the following priority initiatives:

  1. Transitions to Adulthood
  2. Health and Wellbeing (focus on Mental Health)
  3. Health Disparities
  4. Child and Youth Health Indicators related to Injury Prevention
  5. Ethics and Research with Children and Youth
  6. Youth and Community Engagement

Ian Pike, BSPE, MSc, PhD

CYHRNet Co-Leader: Child and Youth Health Indicators related to Injury Prevention

Director, BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit

Dr. Ian Pike is currently the director of the BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit (BCIRPU). BCIRPU has organized its research agenda under four strategic focus areas: Surveillance, Research, Education & Knowledge Transfer and Public Information. Previously Dr. Pike served 5 years as the Regional Director of the Canadian Red Cross Society in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Previous to that, he spent 13 years at the University of Regina as the Director of the Dr. Paul Schwann Centre, an applied health and research centre, and 5 years as the Director of Employee Health and Safety services at the Healthcare Benefit Trust. His academic training is in kinesiology and health promotion, with particular emphasis on the workplace. He has some 20 years experience in health and wellness promotion, providing consultation, facilitation and research service to organizations in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. In 1997, his department was presented with an Award of Excellence by the Association of Worksite Health Promotion for its work in developing an industry-wide workplace health promotion and injury-prevention program in the health care sector in British Columbia. Dr. Pike has also participated as an invited expert at both the Toronto Health Summit and the Prince Edward Island Pilot Project.

Research Interests: Unintentional and intentional injury prevention surveillance, development of Injury Indicators for children and youth, injury knowledge translation and public health policy and practice, social marketing to prevent injury, injury prevention cost benefit, worksite health promotion.

In the Media

  • "Thinking before a ride means deciding to wear a helmet" by Jeff Lee, Vancouver Sun. May 31, 2010.
  • "It can happen to you: CYHRNet Co-Leader helps launch multimedia awareness campaign on preventable injury." June 8, 2009
  • "The Preventable Series: 47 seriously injured each hour -- will you be next?" by Cassidy Olivier, The Province, June 3, 2009.
  • "Play safe and stay safe" by Dharm Makwana, 24 Hours. June 2, 2009.
  • "We're a 1,000-injuries-a-day province" by Cassidy Olivier, Victoria Times Colonist. June 2, 2009.

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