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

Career and research

Ivers is Professor of Public Health, and Head of th
School of Population Health
at the University of New South Wales, an honorary Professorial Fellow at the

George Institute for Global Health The George Institute for Global Health, is an independent medical research institute headquartered in Australia with offices in China, India and the United Kingdom. The George Institute conducts research on non-communicable disease, including hea ...

and National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellow. She was awarded the 2018 Elizabeth Blackburn Fellowship and named on the

Australian Financial Review ''The Australian Financial Review'' (abbreviated to the ''AFR'') is an Australian business-focused, compact daily newspaper covering the current business and economic affairs of Australia and the world. The newspaper is based in Sydney, New Sou ...

and Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards in 2014. She is an injury epidemiologist and a public health researcher. She has been credited with influencing Australian government legislation relating to graduated driver licensing. 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 and preventing avoidable injuries among children. 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 ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper i ...

'' on topics including alcohol advertising and sports, gun laws, bicycle safety and helmets, and road safety in general. She has also written several editorials fo
Croakey
on various public health topics. She has also commented on the equalizing effect of COVID-19 on academic research. 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. She also leads work on fracture care working with investigators from McMasters University on a

NHMRC The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is the main statutory authority of the Australian Government responsible for medical research. It was the eighth largest research funding body in the world in 2016, and NHMRC-funded res ...

funded prospective study of 40,000 people examining the incidence and predictors of mortality in people sustaining traumatic fractures in low income country settings. She coauthored th
WHO Step Safety Report
which highlighted rates of life impacting falls and new prevention strategies.

Selected publications

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Awards and honours

* Fellow of the

Royal Society of New South Wales The Royal Society of New South Wales is a learned society based in Sydney, Australia. The Governor of New South Wales is the vice-regal patron of the Society. The Society was established as the Philosophical Society of Australasia on 27 June ...

, 2021 *National Health and Medical Research Council Elizabeth Blackburn Fellowship (Public Health) 2018 * Winner, Innovation:

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ivers, Rebecca University of New South Wales faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Public health researchers Australian women scientists Fellows of the Royal Society of New South Wales