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 → …

Research area keywords

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

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Projects

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

Comparing rates and characteristics of ambulance attendances related to extramedical use of pharmaceutical opioids in Victoria, Australia from 2013 to 2018

Nielsen, S., Crossin, R., Middleton, M., Lam, T., Wilson, J., Scott, D., Martin, C., Smith, K. & Lubman, D., Jan 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Addiction. 13 p.

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

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Reporting Fatal Neglect in Child Death Review

Scott, D., Apr 2020, In : Trauma, Violence and Abuse: a review journal. p. 382-392 11 p.

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

1 Citation (Scopus)

Self-reported sleep disturbance in ambulance attendances for suicidal ideation and attempted suicide between 2012 and 2017

Ogeil, R. P., Witt, K., Scott, D., Smith, K. & Lubman, D. I., 15 Mar 2020, In : Journal of Affective Disorders. 265, p. 364-371 8 p.

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

The national ambulance surveillance system: A novel method for monitoring acute alcohol, illicit and pharmaceutical drug related-harms using coded Australian ambulance clinical records

Lubman, D. I., Matthews, S., Heilbronn, C., Killian, J. J., Ogeil, R. P., Lloyd, B., Witt, K., Crossin, R., Smith, K., Bosley, E., Carney, R., Wilson, A., Eastham, M., Keene, T., Shipp, C. & Scott, D., Jan 2020, In : PLoS ONE. 15, 1, 15 p., e0228316.

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

Open Access

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