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Contact Details

Phone
64 3 479 8425
Email
lianne.parkin@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor, and Director, New Zealand Pharmacovigilance Centre
Department
Department of Public Health (Dunedin)
Qualifications
MB ChB DipObst DPH PhD FAFPHM
Research summary
Epidemiology and public health

Research

Lianne Parkin completed a Medical degree and a Postgraduate Diploma in Obstetrics at the University of Otago, before training and working for several years in General Practice in New Zealand and Australia. Subsequently, she undertook further training in Public Health Medicine and completed a PhD with a pharmacoepidemiological focus. Her current research interests include the use of routinely collected electronic health and pharmaceutical dispensing data to study the utilisation and safety of medicines and medical devices, and she is the Lead Investigator of the Pharmacoepidemiology Research Network Core Academic Group and the Director of the New Zealand Pharmacovigilance Centre.

Publications

Robijn, A. L., Donald, S., Cohen, J. M., Tran, D. T., Cesta, C. E., Furu, K., Parkin, L., … Havard, A. (2025). Effectiveness of smoking cessation pharmacotherapies during pregnancy: A multi-national population-based study. Addiction. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/add.70290 Journal - Research Article

Tran, D. T., Cohen, J. M., Donald, S., Cesta, C. E., Furu, K., Parkin, L., … Havard, A. (2025). Risk of major congenital malformations following prenatal exposure to smoking cessation medicines. JAMA Internal Medicine. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.0290 Journal - Research Article

Brett, J., Cesta, C. E., Gillies, M. B., Bateman, B. T., Chan, A. Y. L., Cheng, M. C.-Y., … Donald, S., … Parkin, L., … Zoega, H. (2025). Global trends in analgesic opioid use in pregnancy: A retrospective cohort study. Anesthesiology, 142(6), 1100-1113. doi: 10.1097/aln.0000000000005418 Journal - Research Article

Blank, M.-L., Donald, S., & Parkin, L. (2025). Small for gestational age coded diagnoses in Aotearoa New Zealand's administrative health datasets: A validation study. Health Science Reports, 8, e70610. doi: 10.1002/hsr2.70610 Journal - Research Article

Robijn, A. L., Tran, D. T., Cohen, J. M., Donald, S., Cesta, C. E., Furu, K., Parkin, L., … Havard, A. (2024). Smoking cessation pharmacotherapy use in pregnancy. JAMA Network Open, 7(6), e2419245. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.19245 Journal - Research Article

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