Professor Rebecca Ivers

Academic Status

College of Medicine and Public Health

place Sturt West
GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Professor Rebecca Ivers is the Director of the Injury Division at the George Institute for Global Health, based in Sydney. She is Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery at Flinders University, and Professor of Public Health in the Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney.

She is trained in epidemiology and public health and directs a research program with a strong focus on prevention of road injury, fall injury and injury in Aboriginal people as well as work on developing better, more affordable care following trauma in Australia and in low income countries.

Qualifications

MPH, PhD (injury epidemiology)

Honours, awards and grants
  • Category Winner, Innovation. 100 women of influence (Australian Financial Review/Westpac) 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 (awarded December 2007)
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