Brian Johnston MD MPH is associate professor of paediatrics and adjunct associate professor of health services at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the chief of paediatrics at Harborview Medical Center and an investigator at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center.

His academic interests include implementation of injury prevention programs in community settings and studies of the complex relationships between injury prevention, individual health and community well being. He is involved in planning paediatric trauma care and injury control interventions at the local and regional level. He lectures routinely on strategies to bring evidence-based injury prevention into child fatality review and other public health processes.

He edits the BMJ Group journal Injury Prevention.

Read articles by Brian Johnston on bmj.com

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