110 GRSLC Alumni Reconnect Across Three Continents

With generous support from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS), 2025 marked the inaugural year of the Global Road Safety Leadership Course (GRSLC) Alumni Network Summits. Held in Malaysia, Kenya, and Argentina, the three regional summits—coordinated by the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) and the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU)—brought together alumni from all GRSLC cohorts since the program’s launch in 2016.  

The Alumni Network Summits convened 110 alumni from 30 countries. Thirty-five alumni from 12 Asian countries met in September in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; 36 alumni from 10 African countries gathered in November in Mombasa, Kenya, alongside the 2025 Road Policing Executive Leadership Course (RPELC); and 39 alumni from eight Latin American countries convened in December in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

While each location reflected its regional context, the purpose of the summits remained the same: to reconnect as a global community and translate leadership learning into collective action. Across all three gatherings, alumni shared challenges from their home countries, exchanged lessons learned, and identified common strategies for advancing road safety, reinforcing the sense of a connected, collaborative global network. 

Experts from across the BIGRS network—alongside GRSLC alumni and fellows—joined as panelists and facilitators, offering perspectives that linked global road safety priorities with on-the-ground experience. Participants engaged with representatives from the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI), the World Bank, the FIA Foundation, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB Group), the Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI), Vital Strategies, and local government agencies. 

“It was very important for me to participate in this summit,” said Mariana, a 2023 GRSLC alumna. “I saw many people I had connected with on other occasions to discuss road safety, and now I will go back home with many ideas to support collaboration in Latin America.” 

By the end of 2025, the Alumni Network Summits reinforced the GRSLC’s vision of leadership as a collective, ongoing journey. Through reconnection and renewed collaboration, the summits helped build momentum for sustained, coordinated action.