Anne Kavanagh
{{Short description|Australian epidemiologist and researcher}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Anne Kavanagh
| honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM|FASSA|FAHMS|size=100%}}
| known_for = Disability medicine
| education = Flinders University, Australian National University
| employer = University of Melbourne
| occupation = Epidemiologist and medical researcher
| title = Professor
| boards = National Disability Research Partnership, 2024
}}
Anne Kavanagh is an Australian epidemiologist and professor at the University of Melbourne. Her research specialises in inequalities in health across different types of social determinants including gender, disability, the built environment, socioeconomic situations, as well as other factors such as housing and employment.{{Cite web |title=Prof Anne Kavanagh |url=https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/4025-anne-kavanagh |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=The University of Melbourne Find an Expert}}
Education and career
Kavanagh graduated from Flinders University with an MBBS, and then subsequently obtained a PhD from ANU in 1995.{{Cite web |date=2013-03-15 |title=Anne Kavanagh |url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/anne-kavanagh-39310 |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}
She is a professor of Disability and Health at the University of Melbourne, at the school of population and global health.{{Cite web |title=Anne Kavanagh |url=https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=JIpWhosAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=scholar.google.com.au}}{{Cite web |last1=Kavanagh |first1=Anne |last2=Trembath |first2=David |last3=Callaway |first3=Libby |last4=Brown |first4=Mark |last5=Avery |first5=Scott |date=2023-12-07 |title=Recommendations to reboot the NDIS have finally been released. 5 experts react |url=http://theconversation.com/recommendations-to-reboot-the-ndis-have-finally-been-released-5-experts-react-215805 |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}
Kavanagh's passion for her career and medical research is led by her personal journey, with a child with autism, as well as intellectual disability. She was also later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
When my eldest child was diagnosed with Autism and an intellectual disability, I learned first-hand how people with disabilities and their families experienced poorer health outcomes because they were often marginalised from society.{{Cite web |last=Sly |first=David |date=2020-02-20 |title=Improving the health and wellbeing of people with a disability |url=https://blogs.flinders.edu.au/alumni-stories/2020/02/20/annekavanagh/ |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=Alumni stories |language=en-AU}}Kavanagh also regularly works in science communications, and publishes her research in The Conversation, including work around the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS){{Cite web |date=2023-12-07 |title=Anne Kavanagh |url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/anne-kavanagh-39310 |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}} and impacts of funding cuts to the NDIS on families, particularly those from low socioeconomic backgrounds.{{Cite web |last1=Kavanagh |first1=Anne |last2=Dickinson |first2=Helen |date=2022-03-27 |title=What we know about the NDIS cuts, and what they'll mean for people with disability and their families |url=http://theconversation.com/what-we-know-about-the-ndis-cuts-and-what-theyll-mean-for-people-with-disability-and-their-families-179748 |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}} She has also published work on impacts of Covid lockdowns and vaccinations on the general population.{{Cite web |last1=Kavanagh |first1=Anne |last2=MacIntyre |first2=C. Raina |last3=Segelov |first3=Eva |last4=Pulver |first4=Lisa Jackson |date=2021-09-29 |title=Relying only on vaccination in NSW from December 1 isn't enough – here's what we need for sustained freedom |url=http://theconversation.com/relying-only-on-vaccination-in-nsw-from-december-1-isnt-enough-heres-what-we-need-for-sustained-freedom-168833 |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}
Publications
Kavanagh has authored a suite of journal articles, over 300 as at June 2024, and has an H index of 62. She was on the editorial board of Disability & Society in 2021. She was also the associate editor of the journal Social Science & Medicine for the years 2008 to 2014.{{Cite web |title=King Birthday awards |url=https://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-06/KB24%20-%20Honours%20List%20Media%20Notes%20-%20Order%20of%20Australia%20-%20OAM.pdf}}
Select publications include:
- G Turrell, AM Kavanagh (2006) Socio-economic pathways to diet: modelling the association between socio-economic position and food purchasing behaviour. Public health nutrition 9 (3), 375–383.{{Cite journal |last1=Turrell |first1=Gavin |last2=Kavanagh |first2=Anne M. |date=May 2006 |title=Socio-economic pathways to diet: modelling the association between socio-economic position and food purchasing behaviour |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrition/article/socioeconomic-pathways-to-diet-modelling-the-association-between-socioeconomic-position-and-food-purchasing-behaviour/C40ACABD063319397929F293C969083C |journal=Public Health Nutrition |language=en |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=375–383 |doi=10.1079/phn2006850 |pmid=16684390 |issn=1475-2727|hdl=11343/34455 |hdl-access=free |url-access=subscription }}
- AM Kavanagh, DH Broom (1998) Embodied risk: my body, myself?. Social science & medicine 46 (3), 437-444{{Cite journal |last1=Kavanagh |first1=Anne M. |last2=Broom |first2=Dorothy H. |date=1998-02-01 |title=Embodied risk: My body, myself? |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953697001883 |journal=Social Science & Medicine |volume=46 |issue=3 |pages=437–444 |doi=10.1016/S0277-9536(97)00188-3 |pmid=9460824 |issn=0277-9536|url-access=subscription }}
- AM Kavanagh, JL Goller, T King, D Jolley, D Crawford, G Turrell (2005) Urban area disadvantage and physical activity: a multilevel study in Melbourne, Australia. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 59 (11), 934–940.{{Cite journal |last1=Kavanagh |first1=Anne M. |last2=Goller |first2=Jane L. |last3=King |first3=Tania |last4=Jolley |first4=Damien |last5=Crawford |first5=David |last6=Turrell |first6=Gavin |date=2005-11-01 |title=Urban area disadvantage and physical activity: a multilevel study in Melbourne, Australia |url=https://jech.bmj.com/content/59/11/934 |journal=Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health |language=en |volume=59 |issue=11 |pages=934–940 |doi=10.1136/jech.2005.035931 |issn=0143-005X |pmid=16234420|pmc=1732943 }}
Awards and recognition
- 2024 – Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM), King's Birthday Honours{{Cite web |title=Professor Anne Marie Kavanagh |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/3026452 |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=Australian Honours Search Facility}}
- 2022 – Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS){{Cite web |last=Rowney |first=Katie |date=2022-10-13 |title=The Academy welcomes our new Fellows for 2022 - AAHMS |url=https://aahms.org/news/new-fellows-2022/ |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=Australian Academy of Health & Medical Sciences |language=en-AU}}
- 2020 – Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship, University of Melbourne.
- 2019 – Convocation Medal Alumni Award, Flinders University.
- 2018 – Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA){{Cite web |title=Academy Fellow: Professor Anne Kavanagh OAM FASSA |url=https://socialsciences.org.au/academy-fellow/?sId=0032v000033l9MaAAI |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia |language=en-AU}}
- 2018 – Leadership Award, University of Melbourne.
- 2015 – Equity, Diversity and Staff Development Award, University of Melbourne.
- 2007 – Knowledge Transfer Award, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne.
- 2006 – DHS Victoria Public Health Award for Research Innovation.
- 2002 – Young Tall Poppy Award.{{Cite web |last=Sly |first=David |date=2020-02-20 |title=Improving the health and wellbeing of people with a disability |url=https://blogs.flinders.edu.au/alumni-stories/2020/02/20/annekavanagh/ |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=Alumni stories |language=en-AU}}
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