VISU Structure
VISU Executive
As at January 2005 the VISU Executive comprises:
Professor Ian Johnston, Monash University
Accident Research Centre
Professor Joan Ozanne-Smith, Monash University Accident Research Centre
Associate Professor David Taylor, Director of
Emergency Medicine Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital
Assoc. Professor James Harrison, Director, Research
Centre for Injury Studies, Flinders University
Ms. Jan Norton, Department of Human Services
Ms Erin Cassell, Director, Victorian Injury
Surveillance Unit
Director
Erin Cassell
Ms Erin Cassell B.A. MPH is a Senior Research Fellow at Monash
University Accident Research Centre (MUARC). She has qualifications
in sociology and public health. Her current research interests
include home, sport, and child injury prevention research, older persons
falls prevention, and the evaluation of injury prevention
interventions. She is MUARC's designated support person in the area
of community injury prevention/safe communities and represents MUARC on
WHO Safe Communities committees and forums.
Contact Erin
Karen is a Research Fellow at the Monash University Accident Research
Centre. Her role with VISU involves regular contribution to the
Hazard publication, management of the Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset,
and provision of data as part of the VISU information service.
Karen has qualifications in health promotion and a Masters of Public
Health. Karen has a particular interest in the prevention of dog
bites and injuries associated with Do-It-Yourself maintenance
activities.
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Angela has a Bachelor of Behavioural Science, a Graduate Diploma in Education Psychology and Masters of Counselling from Monash University. Angela works part time for VISU providing information on injury as part of the VISU request and information service, contributes to the Hazard publication, manages the VAED and ABS injury datasets and is involved in producing injury indicators for Victoria.
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 Khic-Houy Prang
Khic is a research assistant at the Monash University Accident Research Centre. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Applied Science (Psychology Honours). Her role with VISU involves providing information on injury as part of the VISU information service request, contributes to the Hazard publication, and assists in academic and commercial research. She is currently involved in research studies of paediatric dog bite and exposure to recreational boating activity.
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 Nicolas Reid
Nicolas is a research assistant at the Monash University Accident Research Centre. His role involves analysing and reporting injury data for the VISU information request service, and assisting the VISU team on research projects and publications.
Nicolas has a Postgraduate Diploma of Psychology and a Masters in Ergonomics. He is particularly interested in injury of occupational origin and the use of passive design features to reduce injury risk.
Contact Nicolas
Statistical Support
Stuart Newstead
Stuart Newstead is a Senior Research Fellow at the Monash University Accident
Research Centre, holds a PhD and a Master of Science (Research) in the field of
mathematical statistics and is accredited by the Australian Statistical
Society. He has worked as a statistician in both the medical and road
safety field for a number of years now and has developed expertise in the
areas of program evaluation, safety research from mass data analysis and
management and analysis of injury databases. He has particular interest in
the development and application of statistical methodology in safety
research. Stuart has also held teaching roles in the biostatistics and
medical statistics fields.
Stuart's role in VISU is to provide high-level input into database
development, management and analysis as well as providing input into
research directions within the system.
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