New Zealand's Injury Prevention Research Unit: helping shape injury prevention policy and practice.

Beginnings The Injury Prevention Research (IPRU) was founded in 1990, as the result of a successful bid to establish New Zealand’s first centre for injury prevention research. The need for such a centre was identified in a review of research on unintentional injury prepared for the then Medical Research Council of New Zealand. The authors of that review argued that an analysis of national data on injury mortality and morbidity would provide the basis for establishing research and prevention priorities for New Zealand, and would be of international interest given the uniqueness of New Zealand’s national data resources.