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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 5616
Email
simon.horsburgh@otago.ac.nz
Position
Senior Lecturer
Department
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine (Dunedin)
Qualifications
BA(Hons) MA(Dist) PhD
Research summary
Social pharmacy; epidemiology
Teaching

Research

  • Medicines utilisation
  • Equity in healthcare access
  • Health information data systems
  • Epidemiological research methods

Publications

Norris, P., Horsburgh, S., Waterhouse-Perry, G., & Napier, P. (2024). Inequities in medicines use are probably much worse than we thought. Journal of Primary Health Care, 16(1), 99-100. doi: 10.1071/HC23114 Journal - Research Other

Norris, P., Cousins, K., Horsburgh, S., Keown, S., Churchward, M., Samaranayaka, A., Smith, A., & Marra, C. (2023). Impact of removing prescription co-payments on the use of costly health services: A pragmatic randomised controlled trial. BMC Health Services Research, 23, 31. doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-09011-0 Journal - Research Article

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. R., & Cryer, C. (2022). Impact of legislative reform on worker fatalities in New Zealand workplaces: A 30-year retrospective population-level analysis. Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 79, 602-609. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2021-108054 Journal - Research Article

Horsburgh, S., Sharples, K., Barson, D., Zeng, J., & Parkin, L. (2021). Patterns of metformin monotherapy discontinuation and reinitiation in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus in New Zealand. PLoS ONE, 16(4), e0250289. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250289 Journal - Research Article

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