BSocWk(Hons1), MPH, PhD
NHMRC Research Fellow
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Biography
Dr Cate Cameron has had local and international clinical experience working in the field of injuries and trauma, mental health and sexual assault. In 2005 Cate was awarded her PhD in injury epidemiology from the University of Queensland. Her thesis was a population-based matched cohort study of long-term morbidity and mortality in 21,000 injured adults, using linked administrative health data from Manitoba, Canada.In 2007 Cate was awarded an NHMRC (Public Health) Training Fellowship, to provide support for her research in developing the evidence-base and audit tools for improving national trauma care systems. Cate recently completed an international study of trauma outcomes in Australia, New Zealand, USA and Germany. This study developed contemporary coefficients for the Trauma Injury Severity Score (TRISS), and evaluated their performance at predicting survival against the original TRISS coefficients.
Cate is a Chief Investigator of the Griffith Study of Population Health: Environments for Healthy Living, a large longitudinal birth cohort study of children in South East Queensland and Tweed area. The study has been running since 2006 and currently has over 2500 mothers and their children participating. The focus of the research in the initial years includes issues such as growth restriction in infants, childhood development, obesity and childhood injury.
Research interests
- Epidemiology
- Injury and Trauma
- Injury Outcomes
- Data Linkage
- Longitudinal Cohorts