Rebecca Ivers

Rebecca Q. Ivers is an Australian academic known for her work in injury prevention research.

Career and research

Ivers is the Head of the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales, as well as an honorary Professorial Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health and a Senior Research Fellow at the National Health and Medical Research Council.[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 into injury management and prevention in Indigenous Australian communities, including analysis of driving behaviour and crashes[5] and preventing avoidable injuries among children.[6] Indigenous Australians are less likely to hold a drivers license than non-Indigenous Australians, a statistic which can impact on their ability to find employment.[7] Ivers was involved in establishing the Driving Change program to help Indigenous Australians learn to drive and obtain a drivers license, a program which has been credited with helping participants find and keep jobs.[8][3][9]

Ivers has written editorials for the Sydney Morning Herald on topics including alcohol advertising and sports,[10] gun laws,[11] bicycle safety and helmets,[12] and road safety in general.[13][14][15]

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.[16] 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.[17]

Selected publications
  • Liu, B.C.; Ivers, R.; Norton, R.; Boufous, S.; Blows, S.; Lo, S.K. (2008). Cochrane Injuries Group (ed.). "Helmets for preventing injury in motorcycle riders". Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (1): CD004333. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD004333.pub3. hdl:10536/DRO/DU:30009360. PMID 18254047.
  • Cumming, R.G.; Ivers, R.; Clemson, L.; Cullen, J.; Hayes, M. F.; Tanzer, M.; Mitchell, P. (2007). "Improving Vision to Prevent Falls in Frail Older People: A Randomized Trial: VISION IMPROVEMENT FOR FALLS PREVENTION". Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 55 (2): 175–181. doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01046.x. PMID 17302652.
  • Ivers, R.; Senserrick, T.; Boufous, S.; Stevenson, M.; Chen, H.-Y.; Woodward, M.; Norton, R. (2009). "Novice Drivers' Risky Driving Behavior, Risk Perception, and Crash Risk: Findings From the DRIVE Study". American Journal of Public Health. 99 (9): 1638–1644. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2008.150367. ISSN 0090-0036. PMC 2724457. PMID 19608953.
  • Blows, S.; Ameratunga, S.; Ivers, R.Q.; Lo, S.K.; Norton, R. (2005). "Risky driving habits and motor vehicle driver injury". Accident Analysis & Prevention. 37 (4): 619–624. doi:10.1016/j.aap.2005.03.003. PMID 15949452.
  • Blows, S.; Ivers, R.Q.; Connor, J.; Ameratunga, S.; Woodward, M.; Norton, R. (2005). "Marijuana use and car crash injury". Addiction. 100 (5): 605–611. doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005.01100.x. ISSN 0965-2140. PMID 15847617.

Awards
  • Winner, Innovation: Australian Financial Review and Westpac100 Women of Influence Awards 2014
  • NSW Public Health Associations' Public Health Impact Award. July 2014
  • Australian Injury Prevention Network (AIPN): 2013 AIPN Award for Sustained Achievement. November 2013
  • Young Tall Poppy Award for Science. October 2008
  • National Health and Medical Research Council Achievement Award. December 2007[18]

References
  1. "Professor Rebecca Ivers UNSW". Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  2. "NHMRC honours leading public health advocate Rebecca Ivers". Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  3. "Professor Rebecca Ivers hailed as Australia's top female innovator". Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  4. "Rebecca Ivers The George Institute for Global Health". The George Institute. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  5. "Road user behaviour, attitudes and crashes: a survey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia". Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  6. "Australia failing to close the gap on injuries to Indigenous children, study finds". Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  7. "Program to licence Indigenous drivers steering change in remote communities". Sydney Morning Herald. 2 September 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  8. "How can a driving licence improve health?". BBC. 30 November 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  9. "Driving Change program opens new roads for indigenous drivers". The Australian. 17 May 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  10. "Alcohol must be benched from sports advertising". Sydney Morning Herald. 30 September 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  11. "Gun laws have saved many lives, so beware One Nation's secret agenda". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  12. "If adults don't wear bike helmets kids won't either". Sydney Morning Herald. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  13. "Raise legal driving age to 18: expert". Sydney Morning Herald. 18 September 2008. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  14. "Too many children are dying on the world's roads". Sydney Morning Herald. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  15. "Australian Indigenous road fatalities as bad as sub-Saharan Africa". Sydney Morning Herald. 19 September 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  16. Truong, Kevin (2017-02-16). "Drowning in low and middle income countries". The George Institute for Global Health. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  17. "INORMUS". www.inormus.ca. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  18. Ivers, Rebecca (2013-04-08). "Rebecca Ivers". The George Institute for Global Health. Retrieved 2019-07-25.


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