The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) would like to thank the following individuals for their contribution to this publication:
Ricardo Pérez-Núñez supervised the preparation of this document. Alessandra Senisse coordinated data collection in the countries of the Region and the preparation of this document. Elisa Hidalgo-Solórzano and José Arturo Valdés Méndez (road safety management), Fernando Poó (sustainable mobility and safe infrastructure), Rubén Ledesma and Jeremías Tosi (safe road use), Alessandra Senisse, Jacobo Antona-Makoshi, and Husam Muslin (vehicle safety) provided invaluable support in analyzing and drafting the document.
We acknowledge and are grateful for Kacem Iaych’s advice and support during the analysis, as well as support provided by Rosa Urania Abreu, Michelle Harris, Ignacio Ibarra, Alondra Izaguirre, Cristina Lozano, Sara Gutiérrez Ocampo, Víctor Pavarino Filho, and Roy Rojas Vargas, who added boxes containing local and regional experiences. Arantxa Cayón, Ramón Martínez, María Miglioria, Caren Guerrero, and the PAHO Publications team helped design the report.
Ramón Martínez, from the Department of Non-Communicable Diseases, provided the mortality projections for 2030.
John Brown, from the PAHO Collaborating Centre for Emergency, Critical and Operative Care at the University of California, San Francisco, helped design the emergency care questions and review the post-crash response component.
Rosa Abreu, Melissa Campos Zamora, Ignacio Ibarra, Sara Gutiérrez Ocampo, Anselm Hennis, Martha Híjar, Silvana Luciani, Óscar Mujica, Antonio Sanhueza, María Seguí-Gómez, and Nhan Tran also refined this paper by carrying out a technical review, and offering comments and suggestions.
We are incredibly grateful for the invaluable contribution of PAHO country representatives and staff, who helped collect data for the 2023 regional and global road safety report.
Country-level data were obtained with the valuable support of:
- Member State-appointed national road safety data coordinators.
- All respondents who participated in data collection and national consensus-building meetings.
- Government officials who supported the project and officially authorized the information included in this regional report.
Finally, PAHO would like to thank the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) for funding the preparation and publication of this report.
