Presenter Profile
Rebecca Bavinger, MPA
Public Health Department
Bloomberg Philanthropies
rebecca@bloomberg.org
Bloomberg Philanthropies
rebecca@bloomberg.org
Becky Bavinger works on the Public Health team at Bloomberg Philanthropies, where she manages grants within the Initiative to Reduce Global Tobacco Use, Initiative for Global Road Safety, Maternal and Reproductive Health Program, and the Initiative to Prevent Drowning. She is on the board of Destiny Reflection, and volunteers with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense. Becky holds an M.P.A. in International Nonprofit Management from NYU and a B.A. from Georgetown University.
Presentations
Lessons from Bloomberg Philanthropies’ injury prevention programs
Rebecca Bavinger, MPA
Part of session:
Platform Presentations
Friday, December 2, 2022, 2:45 PM to
4:00 PM
Background:
Bloomberg Philanthropies supports a global road safety program and an initiative to prevent global drowning. In our road safety program, we have several ongoing advocacy campaigns for mandatory child restraint systems, including a success story from the Philippines, as well as city partnerships for speed management, including a focus on low speed zones around schools. Our drowning prevention program has focused on child drownings, using childcare centers to prevent drowning among 1-4 year olds in Bangladesh and survival swim instruction to reduce risk among children aged 6-15 in Vietnam In both programs, we partner with governments to have wider impact through our implementation models. This talk will focus on lessons from those programs, both in terms of impact but also in terms of sustainability through building political will and government ownership.
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1. Focus on following the data and using evidence-based interventions to address road safety and child drowning2. Specific attention to children through advocacy for child restraint systems and low speed zones around schools (to prevent road traffic injuries/fatalities), as well as implementation of childcare centers and survival swim instruction to prevent drowning.
2. Partnerships with goverments for wider reach and sustainability of programs