This report summarises the proceedings at the Paediatric Injury Prevention and Management Research Forum held in Sydney on 1 August 2014, under the joint auspices of the NSW Research Alliance for Children’s Health (RACH), NSW Kids and Families, and the Population Health Research Collaborative (PHRC) of the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network. RACH and the PHRC have been established with the aim of promoting collaboration, research development and translation between existing research groups in child and adolescent health services research and population health relating to paediatrics.