Professor Rebecca Ivers
Head of School
Medicine & Health
School of Population Health
Scientia Professor Rebecca Ivers AM FAHMS FRSN leads a global research program focusing on the prevention and management of injury. Her work has a strong focus on equity, implementation, sustainability and capacity development. She has published over 360 peer reviewed publications and supervised 22 PhD students.
Ivers is currently chair of the Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia, Chair, National Injury Surveillance Unit (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) Advisory Committee (2022-), Co-Chair, Virtual Care Monitoring and Evaluation Committee, NSW Ministry of Health (2022-) and Chair, International Advisory Committee, Nepal Injury Research Centre (2017-). She represents °IJʹ at the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration.
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- Teaching and Supervision
- Ivers R. Investigator Grant (L3). NHMRC 2026-2030.
- Sharwood LN,Swanston H (AIHW), Berecki-Gisolf J, Ivers R, Jorm L, Dinh M, Perez-Concha O, Clay-Williams R, Shackel R, Hegarty K, Rebbeck T. National Injury Surveillance for Actionable Research (NISAR-ED). Medical Research Future Fund National Critical Research Infrastructure Grant Opportunity. 2024-2029: $2,986,450.58.
- Bailey S, Kennedy M, Wright D, Newman J, Sherrif S, Paul C, Muthayya S, Ivers R, Mackell P, Sherwood J. MRFF Dementia Ageing and Aged Care Mission. Evaluating the implementation and uptake of prevention programs to support healthy ageing among Aboriginal people 2023-2027 $1,493,993.80.
- Costa M, …Ivers R (co-PI), et al. HIPCARE: a cluster randomised controlled trial with embedded process evaluation. National Institute for Health Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) (UK), 2023-2027, £3,920,818.
- Eades S. Ivers R, Liu B, Priest N, Joshy G, Williams R, Yashadhana A, Graham S, Skilton M, Azzopardi P. The Next Generation Aboriginal Youth Cohort Study: Co-designing a strengths-based study to identify evidence-based, culturally strong, implementable strategies to improve youth health outcomes. NHMRC Clinical trials and Cohort Scheme, 2022-2027, $2.6m.
- Garvey G, Howard K, Cunningham J, Currow D, Matthews V, Olver I, Ivers R, Harvey G, Butler T. Apreference-informedmodel to improve access and equity in bowel screening for Australia’s First Nations people through home care services. NHMRC 2021 Targeted Call for Research - Participation in Cancer Screening Programs, 2022-2025, $994,552.30.
- Peden A, Ivers R, et al Co-designing game-based farm safety education for adolescents. Department of Agriculture, Water & the Environment/National Farm Safety Education Fund Program, 2022-2023, $172,500.
- Longbottom M, Clapham KC, Fredericks B, Porter A, Harwood V, McCalman J, Ivers R. Navigating the Carceral Interface. ARC Discovery Indigenous, 2022-2024, $1,287,000.00.
- NHMRC Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) National Research Network, funded by Special Initiative in Human Health & Environmental Change ($10M, CIA Vardoulakis), 2021-27. Ivers co-investigator.
- Patton G, Sawyer S, Kinner S, Azzopardi P, Degenhardt L, Reavley N, Ivers R, Erskine H, Brown A, Scott N. Driving Global Investment in Adolescent Health NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence, 2020-2024, $2,496,294.50.
- Cullen, P., Stevenson, S., Walker, N. and Ivers, R. Transforming Domestic and Family Violence Response and Recovery Services, NSW Ministry of Health, 2020-2021, $50,000.
- Pearson SA, Jorm L, Chambers G, Dobbins T, Falster K, Harris I, Guy R, Havard A, Ivers R, Jaffe A, Levi C, Lingam R, Liu B, Sedrakyan A, Woodward M, Vajdic C, Zoega H. A “Big Data” Platform for Real World Evidence in Health, °IJʹ Research Infrastructure Scheme, 2020, $254,225.
- Sprague S, et al (for Inormus consortium including Ivers R). Understanding the Global Burden of Disease of Skeletal Fractures: the International Orthopaedic Multi-Center Study (INORMUS). National Institutes of Health (NIH, US), 2020-2022, $657,186.00.
- Ivers R, Andersen M, Hunter K, Erskine C, Spencer W, Corby C, McCausland R, MacGillivray P, Clapham K. Community led solutions to prevent Aboriginal child injury. The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, 2019-2020, $500,000.
- 2018-2025 °IJʹ Ageing Futures Institute Anstey, K.J., Piggott, J., Ivers, R., Velonaki, M., Bennett, J., Lovell, N. $6,525,000
- Ivers R, Sherrington C, Clapham K, Mackean T, Keay L, Clemson L, Tiedemann A, Hill A, Simpson J, Ryder C. Preventing falls in older Aboriginal people: The Ironbark Trial. NHMRC Project Grant, 2018-2022, $3,026,698.90.
- Peden M, Attwood P, Ivers R, Bachani A, Hyder A, Norton R, Kobusingye O, Hunter K. Preventing childhood injuries in Uganda - development of a child safety kit; preparation for a cluster randomised controlled trial. MRC/NIHR/DfID/Wellcome Global Health Trials Call 9 – Development, 2020-2021, £117,904.
- Steinbeck K, Skinner R, Sanci L, Schofield D, Brooks F, Dawson A, Ivers R, Perry L, Liu B, Collin P. Making health services work for adolescents in a digital age. NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence, 2017-2021, $2,496,294.50.
- Eades S, Sanson-Fisher R, McAullay D, Ivers R, Jorm L, Bryant J, Goldfeld S, Oldmeadow C, Searles A. Aboriginal child and adolescent health improvement through Aboriginal leadership and collaborative research teams. NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence 2017-2021, $2,499,588.60.
- Hill A-M, Kickett M, Ivers R, Hill K. The Ironbark Program: Older Aboriginal People Standing Tall and Strong. Healthway WA, 2017 Health Promotion Intervention Research Grant Scheme, $389,836.
- Vallmuur K, Ivers R, Harrison J, Nottage L, Barker R. Evaluating consumer product regulatory responses to improve child safety. Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 2017-2020, $403,000.
- Keay L, Clemson L, Ivers RQ, Tiedeman A, McCluskey P, Ramulu P. PlaTFORM: PrevenTing Falls in a high risk, vision impaired population through specialist ORientation and Mobility services: a randomised trial. NHMRC Project Grant,2016-2019, $773,768.
- Harris I, Buchbinder R, Ivers R, Naylor J, Balogh Z, Smith P. CROSSFIRE: Combined Randomised and Observational Study of Surgery for Fractures In the distal Radius in the Elderly. NHMRC Project Grant,2016-2018, $551,077.
- Ivers R, Bhandari M, Devereaux P, Sancheti P, Thabane L, Norton R, Guyatt G, Jagnoor J; International Orthopaedic Multicenter Study in Fracture Care (INORMUS). NHMRC Project Grant, 2015-2019, $1,400,000.
- Eades S, Banks E, Ward J, Wilkes E, Ivers R, Liu B, Gray D, D’Este C, Williamson A, Roseby R. Forgotten Generation: Understanding health trajectories in Aboriginal adolescents and youth. NHMRC Project Grant, 2015-2019, $1,999,392.
- NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Fellowship Public Health Award 2018
- NSW Public Health AssociationPublic Health Impact Award; July 2014
- Australian Injury Prevention Network (AIPN): 2013 AIPN Award for Sustained Achievement
- Category Winner, Innovation. 100 women of influence (Australian Financial Review/Westpac); 2014
- Young Tall Poppy Award for Science; October 2008
- National Health and Medical Research Council Achievement Award 2007