This meeting followed the 5th International Conference on Injury Prevention and Control in New Delhi. It was jointly organized by the Malaysian Pediatric Association and the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention. Despite “conference fatigue”, the seminar attracted (and retained for one full day) over 40 delegates. It included a series of excellent presentations and a lively debate.

Dinesh Mohan provided a challenging start with a paper on “Issues in Child Injury Prevention”. He invited the audience to consider the influence of culture on child safety, asserting that, “culture in the public and political domain is only used for purposes of oppression, not for liberation”. Mohan believes that all people value life in the same way, and that views that some societies accept death or serious injuries more fatalistically, are not supported by evidence. The poorest families …