Shanthi Neranjana Ameratunga is a New Zealand

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academic. As of September 2018 she is currently a full professor at the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

Academic career

After a 2005 PhD titled '' 'Disability following car crashes: an epidemiological investigation' '' at the

, supervised by Robyn Norton and Rod Jackson, Ameratunga joined the staff, rising to full professor. Ameratunga's work involves car accidents, alcohol, trauma, disabilities and rehabilitation. In 2020, she served on “A future for the world’s children?”, a

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. Notable students of Ameratunga include Josephine Herman.

Selected works

* Connor, Jennie, Robyn Norton, Shanthi Ameratunga, Elizabeth Robinson, Ian Civil, Roger Dunn, John Bailey, and Rod Jackson. "Driver sleepiness and risk of serious injury to car occupants: population based case control study."

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324, no. 7346 (2002): 1125. * Salkeld, G., Shanthi N. Ameratunga, I. D. Cameron, R. G. Cumming, S. Easter, J. Seymour, S. E. Kurrle, S. Quine, and Paul M. Brown. "Quality of life related to fear of falling and hip fracture in older women: a time trade off studyCommentary: Older people's perspectives on life after hip fractures."

320, no. 7231 (2000): 341–346. * Ameratunga, Shanthi, Martha Hijar, and Robyn Norton. "Road-traffic injuries: confronting disparities to address a global-health problem."

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367, no. 9521 (2006): 1533–1540. * Feigin, Valery L., Alice Theadom, Suzanne Barker-Collo, Nicola J. Starkey, Kathryn McPherson, Michael Kahan, Anthony Dowell et al. "Incidence of traumatic brain injury in New Zealand: a population-based study."

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12, no. 1 (2013): 53–64. * Blows, Stephanie, Shanthi Ameratunga, Rebecca Q. Ivers, Sing Kai Lo, and Robyn Norton. "Risky driving habits and motor vehicle driver injury."

Accident Analysis & Prevention ''Accident Analysis & Prevention'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed public health journal covering accident prevention published by Elsevier on behalf of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine. The journal was established in 1969 b ...

37, no. 4 (2005): 619–624. * Blows, Stephanie, Rebecca Q. Ivers, Jennie Connor, Shanthi Ameratunga, Mark Woodward, and Robyn Norton. "Marijuana use and car crash injury."

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100, no. 5 (2005): 605–611.

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