Using Data to Mitigate Risks in Schools

Public Risk Management

Charlie Wund is the founder and President of Agency for Student Health Research. Maintaining close contact with every strata of pediatrics, he believes that controlling the injury risk in schools lies in the more effective utilization of data. Numbers of repeated injuries show that the injury report process in schools is often slow and inefficient. This has very little to do with the amount of care applied, but to what protocols are in place to mitigate the risks of injury. The biggest issue lies in the inadequate communication between the staff members, a gap that the new technologies are able to bridge with much success.