With more than 800,000 injury deaths and 60 million medically treated injury events per year, injuries are one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in China. In 2004, an epidemiologic study of 200,000 farm families in rural areas of China yielded an annual estimate of more than 590,000 injury deaths and close to 3.5 million permanently disabled individuals. However, research efforts in injury and trauma in China are still at an early stage of development, with even fewer focusing on agriculture-related injuries. In response to this, the USA-China Agricultural Injury Research Training Project was created in 2007 with funding from the NIH/Fogarty International Center.

As a collaborative project between the Colorado Injury Control Research Center, the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Tongji School of Public Health), the long-term goal of the project is to increase training and agriculture-related injury research in China in order to develop an infrastructure for future sustainable agricultural injury research.

Details about the USA-China Agricultural Injury Research Training Project and the impact of the training on its trainees’ careers have been described in a special reported,

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