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Contact Details

Phone
64 3 479 7230
Email
rebbecca.lilley@ipru.otago.ac.nz

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Position
Senior Lecturer
Department
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine
Qualifications
MPH PhD DPH
Research summary
Injury prevention; occupational health and safety

Research

Rebbecca has worked as a researcher in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine since 1999 and obtained her PhD from the University of Otago in 2007. To date Rebbecca's research specialises in using epidemiological methods to understand occupational injury and subsequent work-disability following injury in New Zealand workers.

Dr Lilley has developed two research themes in the area of occupational health and safety: the first examines the distribution and impact of work hazards on worker health & safety; and the second examines work disability and economic participation following injury. Both areas are poorly understood in a New Zealand context. The long-term aim of this body of research is the development of interventions for the workplace. Dr Lilley's previous research has examined the working population in general, as well as numerous occupational groups (e.g. cleaners, clerical workers, forestry and agricultural workers) using different epidemiological methods including cross-sectional, case-control and prospective cohort studies. Dr Lilley's current work focuses on identifying modifiable factors for addressing work disability following injury and improving the quality of work-related fatal injury data for surveillance purposes in a New Zealand context.

Dr Lilley has been lead, and collaborated, on a number of Health Research Council and Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment funded projects and programmes. Dr Lilley has also held training fellowships in occupational injury prevention from the Health Research Council and work disability prevention from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Publications

Montoya, L., Davie, G., Lilley, R., Dicker, B., & Kool, B. (2024). Comparison of injury severity scores derived from ICD-10-AM codes with trauma registry derived scores: A study from New Zealand. Injury. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2024.111511 Journal - Research Article

Lilley, R., Davie, G., Dicker, B., Reid, P., Civil, I., Ameratunga, S., & Kool, B. (2023). Rural and ethnic disparities in out-of-hospital pathways and care after road traffic-related trauma in New Zealand. Proceedings of the National Trauma Symposium (NTS). Retrieved from https://www.traumasymposium.nz/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Campbell, N., Davie, G., Lilley, R., Morgaine, K., Dicker, B., & Kool, B. (2023). Does prehospital advanced life support for major trauma patients improve survival to hospital in New Zealand? Proceedings of the National Trauma Symposium (NTS). Retrieved from https://www.traumasymposium.nz/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Lilley, R., Davie, G., Horsburgh, S., McNoe, B., & Driscoll, T. (2023). Societal burden of work on injury deaths in New Zealand, 2005–14: An observational study. SSM Population Health, 21, 101353. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101353 Journal - Research Article

Lilley, R., Davie, G., McNoe, B., Horsburgh, S., Driscoll, T., & Cryer, C. (2022). Evaluation of the impact of legislative reform on worker fatalities, New Zealand. Injury Prevention, 28(Suppl. 2), (pp. A55). doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2022-safety2022.164 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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