Debbie Scott

Personal profile

Biography

Debbie is a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University, and the Strategic Lead of Population Health Research at Turning Point. She is a public health researcher with a nursing background. Debbie has worked on a number of projects with WHO, UNICEF and ISPCAN on data issues. She is an active member of the Australian Injury Prevention Network (AIPN). She currently sits on the Executive Committee and chairs their Sub-committee on Intentional Injury.

Debbie's research interests focus on the use of surveillance systems to improve the understanding of harms associated with alcohol and drugs - particularly those associated with intentional injury (suicide and self harm, family violence, child maltreatment).

External positions

Chair Subcommittee on Intentional Injury, Australian Injury Prevention Network

Jan 2018 → …

Keywords

Intentional injury prevention
Family violence
Alcohol and drug
Injury surveillance
Child safety and well-being
Public health

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Projects 2017 2019

1 Not started
5 Finished

Preventing Femicide: Descriptive epidemiology of femicide in NSW

Cullen, P., Mackean, T., Ivers, R., Hegarty, K., Scott, D., Longbottom, M. & Rogers, K.

Project: Research

National Injury Prevention Strategy - Literature Review

Hunter, K., Bestman, A., Keay, L., Lukaszyk, C., Brown, J., Clapham, K. F., Curtis, K., Ivers, R., Cullen, P., Mitchell, R., Scott, D. & Vallmuur, K.

21/01/19 → 24/05/19

Project: Research

POP: Understanding the rates and characteristics of ambulance attendances for commonly used pharmaceutical opioids in Australia

Nielsen, S., Scott, D., Crossin, R. & Lubman, D.

11/12/18 → 29/03/19

Project: Other

Department of Social Services – Service system responses to the needs of children to keep them safe from violence and assess the extent to which service interventions further victimise women who are experiencing violence

Scott, D. & Higgins, D.

3/07/17 → 31/12/18

Project: Research

The use of ambulance data to inform patterns and trends of alcohol, substance misuse, self-harm and mental health in different forms of interpersonal violence.

Scott, D., Lloyd, B., Lubman, D., Miller, P., Smith, K., Wilson, A. & Baksheev, G.

22/06/17 → 22/11/18

Project: Research

Research Output 1986 2019

26 Article
12 Other
4 Other Report
4 Chapter (Book)
8 More

Comparing rates and characteristics of ambulance attendances related to extramedical use of pharmaceutical opioids in Australia: A protocol for a retrospective observational study

Nielsen, S., Crossin, R., Middleton, M., Martin, C., Wilson, J., Lam, T., Scott, D., Smith, K. & Lubman, D., 1 May 2019, In : BMJ Open. 9, 5, 9 p., e029170.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review

Open Access

File

Monitoring emerging prescription-drug related harms: a comment on Cairns et al. (2018)

Arunogiri, S., Crossin, R., Scott, D. & Lubman, D., Mar 2019, In : Addiction. 114, 3, p. 571-572 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Other › peer-review

Pregabalin misuse-related ambulance attendances in Victoria, 2012-2017: characteristics of patients and attendances

Crossin, R., Scott, D., Arunogiri, S., Smith, K., Dietze, P. M. & Lubman, D. I., 1 Feb 2019, In : Medical Journal of Australia. 210, 2, p. 75-79 5 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

File

Re-Visioning Public Health Approaches for Protecting Children

Lonne, B. (ed.), Scott, D. A. (ed.), Higgins, D. (ed.) & Herrenkohl, T. (ed.), Apr 2019, Switzerland: Springer. (Child Maltreatment - Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy; vol. 9)

Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › Other › peer-review