Rebecca Ivers Explained

Scientia Professor Rebecca Q. Ivers is an Australian academic known for her work in injury prevention and trauma care research.

Career and research

Ivers is Scientia Professor, and Head of the School of Population Health at the University of New South Wales, an honorary Professorial Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health and previously National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellow.[1] She was awarded the 2018 Elizabeth Blackburn Fellowship[2] and named on the Australian Financial Review and Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards in 2014.[3]

She is an injury epidemiologist and a public health researcher. She has been credited with influencing Australian government legislation relating to graduated driver licensing.[4]

She has also been involved in a number of studies working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, including analysis of driving behaviour and crashes[5] and preventing avoidable injuries among children.[6] Recent work on burn injury has highlighted the need for systems change regarding delivery of care.

Ivers has written editorials for the Sydney Morning Herald on topics including alcohol advertising and sports,[7] gun laws,[8] bicycle safety and helmets,[9] and road safety in general.[10] [11] [12] [13] [14] She has also written several editorials for Croakey on various public health topics.[15] [16] [17] She has also commented on the equalizing effect of COVID-19 on academic research.[18]

Ivers has overseen studies with a global reach examining the burden and risk factors for injury in low-income settings, including Vietnam, India and China. Current global projects involve a large scale initiative implementing community drowning interventions in Bangladesh, and work on scalable interventions for drowning in India and Vietnam.[19] She also leads work on fracture care working with investigators from McMasters University on a NHMRC funded prospective study of 40,000 people examining the incidence and predictors of mortality in people sustaining traumatic fractures in low income country settings.[20] She coauthored the WHO Step Safety Report which highlighted rates of life impacting falls and new prevention strategies.

Selected publications

Awards and honours

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor Rebecca Ivers UNSW. 24 July 2019.
  2. Web site: NHMRC honours leading public health advocate Rebecca Ivers . 3 July 2018 . 24 July 2019.
  3. Web site: Professor Rebecca Ivers hailed as Australia's top female innovator . 24 July 2019.
  4. Web site: Rebecca Ivers The George Institute for Global Health . The George Institute . 24 July 2019.
  5. Cullen . Patricia . Hunter . Kate . Clapham . Kathleen . Kathleen Clapham . Senserrick . Teresa . Rogers . Kris . Harrison . James E. . Ivers . Rebecca Q. . 2020 . Road user behaviour, attitudes and crashes: a survey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia . Injury Prevention . 26 . 2 . 123–128 . 10.1136/injuryprev-2018-043011 . 30837328 . 73516073 . 24 July 2019.
  6. Web site: Australia failing to close the gap on injuries to Indigenous children, study finds . 6 February 2019 . 24 July 2019.
  7. News: Alcohol must be benched from sports advertising . 24 July 2019 . Sydney Morning Herald . 30 September 2018.
  8. News: Gun laws have saved many lives, so beware One Nation's secret agenda . 24 July 2019 . Sydney Morning Herald.
  9. News: If adults don't wear bike helmets kids won't either . 24 July 2019 . Sydney Morning Herald . 19 September 2017.
  10. News: Raise legal driving age to 18: expert . 24 July 2019 . Sydney Morning Herald . 18 September 2008.
  11. News: Too many children are dying on the world's roads . 24 July 2019 . Sydney Morning Herald . 7 May 2015.
  12. News: Australian Indigenous road fatalities as bad as sub-Saharan Africa . 24 July 2019 . Sydney Morning Herald . 19 September 2016.
  13. Web site: Power . Julie . 2021-03-11 . Car-crash risk up to four times higher for poor young drivers . 2022-04-07 . The Sydney Morning Herald . en.
  14. Web site: Power . Julie . 2021-09-26 . Risky P-platers, risky adult drivers . 2022-04-07 . The Sydney Morning Herald . en.
  15. Web site: 2021-07-16 . Stop the snark and politicking. And get on with delivering an effective public health response . 2022-04-07 . Croakey Health Media . en-CA.
  16. Web site: 2022-04-06 . For World Health Day, a plea to "break the cycle of shame" . 2022-04-07 . Croakey Health Media . en-CA.
  17. Web site: 2021-11-17 . On the Glasgow Climate Pact, and colonialism, privilege, selfishness and spin . 2022-04-07 . Croakey Health Media . en-CA.
  18. Web site: 2020-08-05 . Pandemic 'decolonising research' as developing nations take lead . 2022-04-07 . Times Higher Education (THE) . en.
  19. Web site: Drowning in low and middle income countries. Truong. Kevin. 2017-02-16. The George Institute for Global Health. en. 2019-07-25.
  20. Web site: INORMUS. www.inormus.ca. 2019-07-25.
  21. Web site: Rowney . Katie . 2023-10-12 . AAHMS welcomes 27 new Fellows . 2023-10-16 . AAHMS . en-AU.
  22. Web site: King's Birthday 2023 Honours - the full list . Sydney Morning Herald . Nine Entertainment Co . 11 June 2023 . 11 June 2023.
  23. Web site: 1292nd Ordinary General Meeting. 2021-08-12. The Royal Society of New South Wales.
  24. Web site: 2017 Research Excellence Awards | NHMRC.
  25. Web site: Rebecca Ivers. Ivers. Rebecca. 2013-04-08. The George Institute for Global Health. en. 2019-07-25.

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