In this podcast, Professor Brent Hagel, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, tells Editor-in-Chief of Injury Prevention, Rod McLure, how his career as a scientist moved from an undergraduate degree in health education through to injury prevention in sports and more recently to methods of encouraging physical activity within a safe environment. The conversation evolves to a detailed discussion of the rigorous methodological approaches used in injury prevention.

The articles mentioned in this podcast are:

- Hagel BE, Meeuwisse WH, Mohtadi NG, Fick GH.Skiing and snowboarding injuries in the children and adolescents of Southern Alberta.Clin J Sport Med. 1999 Jan;9(1):9-17;

- Thompson DC, Rivara FP, Thompson RS.Effectiveness of bicycle safety helmets in preventing head injuries. A case-control study.JAMA. 1996 Dec 25;276(24):1968-73;

- Roberts I, Marshall R, Lee-Joe T. The urban traffic environment and the risk of child pedestrian injury: a case-crossover approach. Epidemiology. 1995 Mar;6(2):169-71;