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Contact Details

Email
jessica.kerr@otago.ac.nz
Position
Research Fellow
Department
Department of Psychological Medicine (Christchurch)
Research summary
Dr Kerr's research examines early-life determinants of poor cardiometabolic and mental health

Research

Dr Kerr holds joint positions at University of Otago, Christchurch and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne. She has expertise in the fields of adolescent and adult nutrition, obesity, cardiovascular and mental health (with special interests in personality).

Currently, Dr Kerr works on projects examining optimal environments for health, focusing on neighbourhood characteristics; and is beginning to build the TIME Consortium (The International Mortality in Early life Consortium) to harmonise mature cohort studies and examine risk factors for premature mortality.

Publications

Lange, K., Pham, C., Fedyszyn, I. E., Cook, F., Burgner, D. P., Olsson, C. A., … Kerr, J. A., … O'Connor, M. (2024). Emotional symptoms and inflammatory biomarkers in childhood: Associations in two Australian birth cohorts. Journal of Affective Disorders, 344, 356-364. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.10.042 Journal - Research Article

Mensah, G. A., Fuster, V., Murray, C. J. L., Roth, G. A., on behalf of the Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risks Collaborators, including Coffey, S., Kerr, J. A., & Ranta, A. (2023). Global burden of cardiovascular diseases and risks, 1990-2022. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 82(25), 2350-2473. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2023.11.007 Journal - Research Article

Greenwood, C. J., Letcher, P., Laurance, E., Boden, J. M., Foulds, J., Spry, E. A., Kerr, J. A., … Olsson, C. A. (2023). The Monitoring Illicit Substance USE Consortium: A study protocol for investigating low prevalence substance use behaviours in population cohort studies. Drug & Alcohol Review, 42(Suppl. 1), 205. doi: 10.1111/dar.13749 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Kerr, J. A., Gillespie, A. N., O'Connor, M., Deane, C., Borschmann, R., Dashti, S. G., … Boden, J. M., … Patton, G. C. (2023). Intervention targets for reducing mortality between mid-adolescence and mid-adulthood: A protocol for a machine-learning facilitated systematic umbrella review. BMJ Open, 13(10), e068733. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068733 Journal - Research Other

Sycamnias, L., Kerr, J. A., Lange, K., Saffery, R., Wang, Y., Wake, M., … Grobler, A. C. (2023). Polygenic risk scores and the risk of childhood overweight/obesity in association with the consumption of sweetened beverages: A population-based cohort study. Childhood Obesity. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1089/chi.2023.0012 Journal - Research Article

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