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Author Archives: Tom Carroll

Dr. Tom Carroll is a psychologist with more than thirty years’ experience in public health social marketing in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Based in Sydney, he is a consultant and senior advisor on policy and communications, with global public health organization, Vital Strategies, and regional lead for the organization's tobacco and road safety programs in South-East Asia. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney and was previously senior advisor on social marketing and research to the Australian Department of Health.

Photo: iStock
Posted inChina, Middle East, Russia, Shanghai, Turkey, World

UN safety drive aims to get motorists to slow down

by Tom Carroll May 9, 2017

The burden of harm on our roads is unmistakable. Every year, an estimated 1.25 million people are killed in road traffic crashes around the world. Tens of millions more are injured. Nine out of ten deaths on the roads happen in low- and middle-income countries, and younger people are more often among the lives lost. […]

Vital Strategies drunk driving campaign still. Photo: YouTube Screenshot
Posted inAT Finance, Vietnam, World

Ho Chi Minh City confronts its drinking and driving epidemic

by Tom Carroll November 18, 2016November 18, 2016

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