Amy Peden
Research Fellow, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
Amy is a lecturer and researcher in the School of Population Health at UNSW Sydney. Her research explores injury prevention with a focus on drowning prevention and the intersecting issues of rurality, alcohol and exposure. Amy holds adjunct positions with James Cook University, The George Institute for Global Health and is a Senior Research Fellow with Royal Life Saving Society – Australia. Amy is an early career researcher whose PhD explored the epidemiology, risk factors and prevention strategies for unintentional river drowning. Her PhD programme of research was awarded the Sax Institute Research Action Award in 2019, the 2020 JCU Dean’s Award for Higher Degree by Research Excellence and also in 2020 was acknowledged as the Council of Academic Public Health Institutions in Australia (CAPHIA) Award winner for PhD Excellence in Public Health. Amy is a member of the Australasian Injury Prevention Network executive.
Research Interests:
Drowning epidemiology and risk factors
Impact of exposure to water hazards and participation on drowning risk
Determinants of health including alcohol and rurality
Translating research into practice
Some Recent Publications
Stevenson L, Byard R, van den Heuvel C, Peden AE (2020) Fatal drowning among tourists and recently arrived individuals from overseas at South Australian Metropolitan beaches, Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2020.1759686
Franklin RC, Peden AE, Hamilton EB, et al. (2020) The burden of unintentional drowning: global, regional and national estimates of mortality from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study. Injury Prevention Published Online First: 20 February 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043484
Peden, AE., Franklin RC, Willcox-Pidgeon S. (2020). Media reporting of summer drowning: A partial picture, useful for advocacy. Health Promotion Journal of Australia; 31(3): 491-496. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpja.297
Franklin, R.C., Peden, A.E., Brander, R.W., Leggat, P. (2019). Who rescues who? Understanding aquatic rescues in Australia using coronial data and a survey. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1753-6405.12900
Willcox-Pidgeon S, Peden AE, Franklin RC, Scarr J (2019) Boating-related drowning in Australia: Epidemiology, risk factors and the regulatory environment, Journal of Safety Research, 70:117-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2019.06.005
Peden AE, Franklin RC, Clemens T. Exploring the burden of fatal drowning and data characteristics in three high income countries: Australia, Canada and New Zealand. BMC Public Health 2019;19:794, https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-7152-z
Peden AE, Mahony AJ, Barnsley PD, et al. Understanding the full burden of drowning: a retrospective, cross-sectional analysis of fatal and non-fatal drowning in Australia. BMJ Open 2018;8:e024868. doi: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/8/11/e024868.full.pdf
Barnsley PD, Peden AE. A Retrospective, Cross-Sectional Cohort Study Examining the Risk of Unintentional Fatal Drowning during Public Holidays in Australia. Safety. 2018; 4(4):42. doi.org/10.3390/safety4040042 https://www.mdpi.com/2313-576X/4/4/42
Peden, A. E., Demant, D., Hagger, M. S., & Hamilton, K. (2018). Personal, social, and environmental factors associated with lifejacket wear in adults and children: A systematic literature review. PLOSONE. 13(5): e0196421. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196421
Franklin RC, Peden AE, Pearn JH (2018) Drowning deaths in Australia caused by hypoxic blackout, 2002–2015, Medical Journal of Australia, 208(6);271. doi:10.5694/mja17.00728 https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2018/208/6/drowning-deaths-australia-caused-hypoxic-blackout-2002-2015
Barnsley, PD., AE. Peden and J. Scarr (2018). Calculating the economic burden of fatal drowning in Australia. Journal of Safety Research 67: 57-63. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2018.09.002
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