Dr Kirsten McKenzie

Dr Kirsten McKenzie is a Senior Research Fellow in Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety-Queensland in the Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology.

She has expertise in the analysis and understanding of large morbidity and mortality coded data sets, injury surveillance systems, trauma data linkage, health classifications and injury classifications.

She is currently conducting a number of collaborative health data research projects with internal and external university based researchers, government and non-government agencies in the following areas:

• External cause of injury classifications
• Injury surveillance using emergency department hospital and mortality data
• Morbidity and mortality data quality
• Child abuse documentation coding and reporting
• Product safety surveillance
• Identification of occupational injury in health databases
• Identification of alcohol related injury in health databases
• Factors affecting emergency department supply and demand
• Survival outcomes from trauma and Trauma data scoping and linkage.

Dr McKenzie is a member of the World Health Organisation ICD-11 Revision Topic Advisory Group for Injury and External causes, the leadership committee of the Australasian Mortality Data Interest Group and a member of the Australian Injury Prevention network.

She has a PhD in Psychology and has training in data linkage, injury epidemiology, structural equation modelling, text mining, and other quantitative and qualitative analytic techniques.

Research interests

• Morbidity and mortality data quality
• Injury surveillance systems
• Trauma data linkage
• Health classifications
• Injury classifications.