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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 9092
Email
helen.harcombe@otago.ac.nz
Position
Senior Lecturer
Department
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine (Dunedin)
Qualifications
BPhty MPH PhD
Research summary
Injury prevention, subsequent injury, musculoskeletal disorders e.g. among nurses, physical activity
Teaching
  • Undergraduate: POPH 192 Population Health
  • Postgraduate: PUBH 723 Survey Methods
  • Thesis supervision: master’s and PhD research
Memberships
  • Physiotherapy New Zealand
  • Australasian Epidemiology Association
  • Australasian Injury Prevention Network
  • International Society for Physical Activity and Health
Clinical
Musculoskeletal physiotherapy

Research

Helen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine. She is an epidemiologist with a clinical background as a physiotherapist and a PhD in Public Health. Her research focuses on enhancing and improving what happens to people following injury, in particular preventing subsequent injury. Other areas of research include musculoskeletal disorders, particularly among nurses.

She is currently leading a feasibility study funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) focused on preventing subsequent injuries and is a named investigator on two other HRC-funded projects. She was co-Principal Investigator on the HRC-funded Subsequent Injury Study (SInS) and has previously held a Strategy to Advance Research (STAR) PhD scholarship and a Health Research Council of New Zealand Occupational Health Career Development Award.

Publications

Derrett, S., Owen, H. E., Barson, D., Maclennan, B., Samaranayaka, A., Harcombe, H., & Wyeth, E. H. (2024). New Zealand’s Prospective Outcomes of Injury Study—10 years on (POIS-10): Descriptive outcomes to 12 years post-injury [Short report]. Injury Prevention. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1136/ip-2023-045058 Journal - Research Article

Milne, T., Anwar, M., Burga, L., Harcombe, H., Garelja, M., Middleton, A., Ribeiro, D. C., Fleming, N., Ogbuehi, K., & Bahn, A. (Eds.). (2023). Proceedings of the 268th Otago Medical School Research Society (OMSRS) Meeting: Masters/Honours/Postgraduate Diploma Student Speaker Awards. Dunedin, New Zealand: OMSRS. Retrieved from https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/12839 Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings

Widyastuti, N., Turner, R., Harcombe, H., & McLean, R. (2023). Trends in body mass index z-score of Indonesian children and adolescents between 1993 and 2014: A longitudinal population-based study. Proceedings of the New Zealand Biostatistics Conference. Retrieved from https://events.otago.ac.nz/2023-biostatistics-conference Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Milne, T., Anwar, M., Burga, L., Harcombe, H., Garelja, M., Middleton, A., Ribeiro, D. C., Fleming, N., Ogbuehi, K., & Bahn, A. (Eds.). (2023). Proceedings of the 267th Otago Medical School Research Society (OMSRS) Meeting: PhD Student Speaker Speaker Awards. Dunedin, New Zealand: OMSRS. Retrieved from https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/12839 Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings

Milne, T., Anwar, M., Burga, L., Harcombe, H., Garelja, M., Middleton, A., Ribeiro, D. C., Fleming, N., Ogbuehi, K., & Bahn, A. (Eds.). (2023). Proceedings of the 266th Otago Medical School Research Society (OMSRS) Meeting: Research Staff Speaker Awards. Dunedin, New Zealand: OMSRS. Retrieved from https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/12839 Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings

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