Towards equity in crash protection

与男子相比，妇女在机动车碰撞中死亡和重伤的相对风险更高，原因尚不清楚。该奖学金旨在建立一个新的模型，描述这种不平等的机制途径，以确定在哪里以及如何干预可以降低这种相对风险。这将确定哪些人群能够获得最好的车辆安全技术，哪些人群不能获得最好的车辆安全技术，哪些人群能够获得最好的车辆安全技术，以及哪些人群能够获得最好的车辆安全技术。研究结果将有助于学术界、政策制定者和工业界设计新的方法，以保护女性在撞车事故中的安全，并缩小这一性别差距。

Women are at increased relative risk for death and serious injury in motor vehicle crashes compared to men and the reasons for this are not clear. This Fellowship aims to build a new model that describes the mechanistic pathways for this inequity to identify where and how intervention could reduce this relative risk. This will establish what population groups have good and poor access to the best vehicle safety technologies, the differences, and what might cause these differences in the benefits of vehicle safety technology between women and men. The outcomes will be of use to academics, policy makers and industry designing to new ways to protect women in crashes and close this gender gap.