Shanthi Ameratunga

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| thesis1_title = Disability following car crashes: an epidemiological investigation

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| thesis1_year = 2005

| doctoral_advisor = Robyn Norton
Rod Jackson

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Shanthi Neranjana Ameratunga is a New Zealand public health academic. As of September 2018, she is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland.{{cite web |url=https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/s-ameratunga |title=Professor Shanthi Ameratunga - The University of Auckland |website=unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz |access-date=5 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129055549/https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/s-ameratunga |archive-date=29 January 2018 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}

Academic career

After a 2005 PhD titled 'Disability following car crashes: an epidemiological investigation' at the University of Auckland,{{cite thesis |last=Ameratunga |first=Shanthi |year=2005 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=Disability following car crashes: an epidemiological investigation |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland |hdl=2292/3158 |url=https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/3158}} supervised by Robyn Norton and Rod Jackson, Ameratunga joined the staff, rising to full professor.

Ameratunga's work involves car accidents, alcohol, trauma, disabilities and rehabilitation.{{cite web |url=https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2018/02/04/concussion-linger-years-study/ |title=Concussion issues can linger for years, New Zealand study finds - Horsetalk.co.nz |date=4 February 2018 |access-date=5 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820141115/https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2018/02/04/concussion-linger-years-study/ |archive-date=20 August 2018 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}{{cite web |url=https://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2013/03/19/auckland-savvy-workshop-boosts-scientists-confidence/ |title=Auckland SAVVY workshop boosts scientists' confidence |date=19 March 2013 |access-date=5 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212015516/https://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2013/03/19/auckland-savvy-workshop-boosts-scientists-confidence/ |archive-date=12 February 2018 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10847267 |title=Girls take lead in teen binge-drinking - study |first=Simon Collins Education reporter, NZ Herald |last=simon.collins@nzherald.co.nz |date=13 November 2012 |via=www.nzherald.co.nz|newspaper=NZ Herald }}{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10684324 |title=Two Drinks Max: Who has made the pledge |date=6 November 2010 |via=www.nzherald.co.nz |newspaper=NZ Herald }} In 2020, she served on “A future for the world’s children?”, a WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission, co-chaired by Helen Clark and Awa Coll-Seck.[https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/19-02-2020-world-failing-to-provide-children-with-a-healthy-life-and-a-climate-fit-for-their-future-who-unicef-lancet] World Health Organization, press release of February 19, 2020.

Notable students of Ameratunga include Josephine Herman.{{cite thesis |last=Herman |first=Josephine |year=2013 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=Road Traffic Injuries in the Pacific: The epidemiology of road traffic injuries in Fiji and the role of driver sleepiness |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland |hdl=2292/20572 |url=https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/20572}}

Selected works

Connor, Jennie, Robyn Norton, Shanthi Ameratunga, Elizabeth Robinson, Ian Civil, Roger Dunn, John Bailey, and Rod Jackson. "Driver sleepiness and risk of serious injury to car occupants: population based case control study." BMJ 324, no. 7346 (2002): 1125.
Salkeld, G., Shanthi N. Ameratunga, I. D. Cameron, R. G. Cumming, S. Easter, J. Seymour, S. E. Kurrle, S. Quine, and Paul M. Brown. "Quality of life related to fear of falling and hip fracture in older women: a time trade off studyCommentary: Older people's perspectives on life after hip fractures." BMJ 320, no. 7231 (2000): 341–346.
Ameratunga, Shanthi, Martha Hijar, and Robyn Norton. "Road-traffic injuries: confronting disparities to address a global-health problem." The Lancet 367, no. 9521 (2006): 1533–1540.
Feigin, Valery L., Alice Theadom, Suzanne Barker-Collo, Nicola J. Starkey, Kathryn McPherson, Michael Kahan, Anthony Dowell et al. "Incidence of traumatic brain injury in New Zealand: a population-based study." The Lancet Neurology 12, no. 1 (2013): 53–64.
Blows, Stephanie, Shanthi Ameratunga, Rebecca Q. Ivers, Sing Kai Lo, and Robyn Norton. "Risky driving habits and motor vehicle driver injury." Accident Analysis & Prevention 37, no. 4 (2005): 619–624.
Blows, Stephanie, Rebecca Q. Ivers, Jennie Connor, Shanthi Ameratunga, Mark Woodward, and Robyn Norton. "Marijuana use and car crash injury." Addiction 100, no. 5 (2005): 605–611.

References

External links

{{LinkedIn page|in/shanthi-ameratunga-3a5504156}}
{{ResearchGate|Shanthi_Ameratunga}}

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