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Research Biography
I am an injury epidemiologist and public health physician. I was appointed as founding Director of Research Centre for Injury Studies at Flinders University in 1997 and have been the Director of the National Injury Surveillance Unit (NISU) since 1990. I am active nationally and internationally in the areas of measurement and classification of injury, injury burden and determinants of injury in populations, and the descriptive epidemiology of injury for public health purposes.
Research Interests
My main areas of research interest are injury prevention and control, and methods and infrastructure for public health surveillance, including classifications and data linkage. My publications deal with many aspects of injury, including injury severity and outcomes, road safety, the safety of Indigenous Australians, suicide and self-harm, alcohol and injury, occupational safety, sports injury, spinal cord injury and the safety of health care. While most of my work has been quantitative, I have also participated in some qualitative research. As at December 2018, I am an author of 87 peer-reviewed journal papers, and many other reports, mostly publications of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
The Research Centre for Injury Studies operates the National Injury Surveillance Unit (NISU) of the AIHW. NISU undertakes public health surveillance of injury at the national level to support injury prevention and control, and provides much of the statistical information on which injury prevention policy and programs in Australia rely. The NISU program also produces the main national statistical reports on non-fatal serious road injury for the Australian Government agency responsible for road safety. NISU also does technical work on injury data sources and methods.
With Dr Kavi Bhalla, I led the Injury Expert Group in the Global Burden of Diseases 2010 project. This led to an active collaborative network of injury researchers, now part of the International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on Injury Statistics, who are are developing theory and doing research to enable better measurement of the impact and burden of injury. I am researching outcomes of injury using prospective follow-up with Professor Belinda Gabbe (Monash) and others and using data linkage to improve the measurement of non-fatal road injuries.
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Projects
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Addressing discrepancies in estimates of road traffic deaths and injuries in Ethiopia
Neki, K., Gutierrez, H., Mitra, S., Temesgen, A. M., Mbugua, L. W., Balasubramaniyan, R., Winer, M., Roberts, J., Vos, T., Hamilton, E., Naghavi, M., Harrison, J. E., Job, S. & Bhalla, K., 1 Jun 2023, In: Injury Prevention. 29, 3, p. 234-240 7 p., 044704.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Bandaids are not the fix: Examining the patterns of injury-related emergency department presentations in Australian children
Möller, H., Niven, C., Catchpoole, J., Ivers, R., Harrison, J. & Vallmuur, K., Feb 2023, In: EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia. 35, 1, p. 112-119 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Comparing estimates of road traffic deaths and non-fatal road traffic injuries in Cambodia
Gutierrez, H., Mitra, S., Neki, K., Mbugua, L. W., Balasubramaniyan, R., Winer, M., Roberts, J., Vos, T., Hamilton, E., Naghavi, M., Harrison, J. E., Job, R. F. S. & Bhalla, K., 1 Aug 2022, In: Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention. 28, 4, p. 340-346 7 p., 044504.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Estimates of road traffic deaths in Tanzania
Mbugua, L. W., Mitra, S., Neki, K., Gutierrez, H., Balasubramaniyan, R., Winer, M., Roberts, J., Vos, T., Hamilton, E., Naghavi, M., Harrison, J. E., Job, S. & Bhalla, K., Oct 2022, In: Injury Prevention. 28, 5, p. 422-428 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Predictors of health-related quality of life following injury in childhood and adolescence: a pooled analysis
Dipnall, J. F., Rivara, F. P., Lyons, R. A., Ameratunga, S., Brussoni, M., Lecky, F. E., Bradley, C., Beck, B., Lyons, J., Schneeberg, A., Harrison, J. E. & Gabbe, B. J., Aug 2022, In: Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention. 28, 4, p. 301-310 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus)
Activities
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Australian Spinal Cord Injury Register: A descriptive epidemiological register in transition
Amanda Tovell (Speaker) & James Harrison (Speaker)
2013Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation