Global Road Safety Leadership Course (GRSLC)

With a focus on key leadership principles, the GRSLC is a two-week residential course held at JHU in Baltimore, USA that explores topics centred on the key areas of focus of the 2^nd Decade of Action for Road Safety, covering topic areas including:

• The road trauma problem: an overview of the global burden
• Road safety risk factors
• The role of road policing in road safety
• Post-crash response: measurement, data and case studies
• Urban design for road safety
• Safer vehicles and road safety
• Strategic communications & behaviour change campaigns

Key features of the programme include:

• Delivery through a diverse, experienced international faculty that aims to challenge and inspire participants
• Thematic emphasis on leadership across a range of road safety issues, irrespective of participants’ positions in their organisations
• Certification from a leading university and global road safety set of partners

The two-week delivery involves participants from across low- and middle-income countries globally and is held annually at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA.

Content is delivered by experts from GRSP and JHU-IIRU, as well as key partner organisations including:

• World Health Organization
• Towards Zero Foundation
• World Bank Global Road Safety Facility
• Global Designing Cities Initiative
• World Resources Institute
• Vital Strategies
• Global Health Advocacy Incubator

The course is open to participants through an internal nomination process of the partner organisations of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety.

From 2016 – 2019, the GRSLC was delivered biannually, with one iteration held at JHU in Baltimore, and the second delivery held at a regional location. These were held in:

• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2017)
• Nairobi, Kenya (2018)
• Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019)