Investigating injury outcomes

Date:

Nov 14, 2011

The prevention of work disability recurrences and recommendations on how to prevent the overuse of services will be the focus of a new Early Career Fellowship awarded by ISCRR.

Dr Janneke Berecki-Gisolf, Senior Research Fellow at the Monash Injury Research Institute (MIRI) has received the ISCRR Fellowship  to complete a three year study investigating the outcomes of compensated injury in Victoria.

Dr Berecki-Gisolf's research will investigate individual and system level factors that contribute to injury outcomes, including information on chronic disease.

She said the Fellowship would provide an opportunity to further her research on the impact of pharmaceuticals and chronic disease on injury outcomes.

"The fellowship will allow me to develop a line of research around health service use, medications and return to work after compensated injury," Dr Berecki-Gisolf said. 

"Short projects let you take one step, but in three years you can cover a lot of distance."

Dr Berecki-Gisolf is a medical doctor from the Netherlands with a PhD in Physiology. She first came to Australia in 2007 and worked as a post-doctoral fellow for the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health at the University of Queensland for two years.

ISCRR is a joint venture between WorkSafe Victoria, the Transport Accident Commission and Monash University. It works closely with policy makers, regulators and the research community to conduct and commission research into workplace injury and illness prevention, compensation practice, health and vocational rehabilitation.