Safe and Sustainable Mobility by Design

Geetam Tiwari, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus, at the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She completed her Master of Urban Planning and Policy and her doctorate in Transport Planning from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has received the degree of Doctor of Technology Honoris Causa from the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in 2012. Her research focus includes traffic and transport planning and traffic safety focusing on pedestrians, bicycles, bus systems, and highway safety. She is an editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion since 2009. She is the chairperson of the BIS, SSD01(Bureau of Indian Standards, Service Sector Division) committee since 2020. Mathew Varghese, MBBS, MS , is an orthopaedic surgeon at the St. Stephen’s Hospital, Delhi, since 1990. He served as the director of St Stephen’s Hospital from 1999–2006. He has been the executive committee member and governing council member, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He holds the position of Honorary Director for Cure Club Foot International India Trust (CIIT), an organisation preventing disability from clubfoot, one of the commonest orthopaedic birth defects. He is scientific advisor to a Niti Aayog project on emergency care: “A Country Level Assessment of Current Status of Emergency and Injury Care at Secondary and Tertiary Level Centres in India” since May 2019. He was awarded the “Vishishta Chkitsa Ratan Award” by the Delhi Medical Association, 2018; Distinguished Teacher Award by the Association of National Board of Examination Institutions August 2019; the Guildal Memorial Lecture by the Danish Orthopaedic Society in October 2019. Kavi Bhalla, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences of the Biological Sciences Division at the University of Chicago and affiliated faculty at the Harris School of Public Policy.  His research aims to develop transport systems that are safe, sustainable, and equitable, with a central focus on road safetyin low- and middle-income countries. His recent work has focused on the development of analytical tools for improving estimates of the incidence of injuries in information-poor settings using the available data sources and the evaluation of road safety interventions. He co-led the Injury Expert Group of the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Project.  He is formally trained as a mechanical engineer and his Ph.D. (Cornell, 2001) thesis research focused on the mechanics of material failure, which he later applied to the study of injury biomechanics and vehicle crashworthiness.