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National interest in becoming part of the Southern Consortium for Injury Biomechanics at the University of Alabama’s Injury Control Research Center is broad-based and enthusiastic. The Consortium’s highly innovative and demonstratably cost-effective approach to preventing vehicle-related injuries and deaths-fusing scientists from historically competing settings into collaborating teams focusing their collective efforts on the most important problems, instead of the current model that pits them against one another is the only approach that makes sense today given the extremely limited resources available for this much-needed research.
In practical terms, the financial return on investment in injury prevention will exceed hundreds of millions of dollars, thereby providing an extremely high cost –benefit ratio. The return on investment in ‘human’ terms is incalculable. Simply put, it is our opinion that the Consortium is very likely the most important motor vehicle injury prevention and control research concept ever proposed and implemented by a group of scientists, engineers, and physicians committed to working cooperatively as opposed to competitively.
