新浪彩票

Catherine Chittleborough is Deputy Head of the School of Public Health. She oversees the public health learning and teaching in undergraduate and postgraduate programs. As a member of  Health and Development Research her research interests focus on: how we can reduce inequalities in, and improve overall population levels of, child health and development, and reviewing the breadth and quality of evidence of programs and interventions aimed at improving child outcomes. She has an interest in applying causal epidemiological techniques and making use of population administrative linked data. She started at the University of 新浪彩票 as a postdoctoral researcher in 2011 after spending two years as a research associate in the School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol in the UK.  Prior to that Cathy was an epidemiologist with SA Health for a decade, where her work focused on population health surveillance and chronic disease epidemiology. 

BHSc(Hons), GDPH, GCertEd(HigherEd), PhD

PUB HLTH 1001 Health and Illness in Populations
HLTH SC 3103 Infant, Child and Adolescent Health
Public Health content in health and medical sciences and other programs 

Supervision

Current

Jessica Judd, 2021- ‘Investigating out-of-home care contact and mental health sequelae using linked whole-of-population data’. Australian Government Research Training Program (AGRTP) Stipend Scholarship awarded on academic merit; HDA and Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation PhD Excellence Award 2021-2023.

Anna Kalamkarian, 2022- ‘Moving towards a fairer Ausralia: disentangling multidimensional disadvantage and child protection contact’. Westpac Future Leaders Scholar.

Completions - Primary supervision

Alicia Montgomerie, MPH, "Physical activity and incidence of obesity among South Australian adults", 2013

Completions - Co-supervision

Mumtaz Begum, PhD, "The epidemiology of type 1 diabetes in South Australian children", 2020

Janet Grant, PhD, "Parental body shape in mid-life and its relationship to adult offspring body shape, chronic disease status and mortality" 2018

Shiau Yun Chong, PhD, "Influence of early childhood temperament and parenting on cognitive, social and health outcomes", 2016, Dean's commendation and 2016 Public Health Association of Australia (SA Branch) Kerry Kirke student award.

Eleonora Dal Grande, PhD, "Surveillance of Health Status and Health Risk: The Future of Data Collection Using the Telephone in Australia", 2016, Dean's commendation.

Judy Chu, MPH, "Systematic review of ACEs measurement" 2020

Shae Pryke, MPH, "Inequalities in antenatal visits" 2018

Yi Wang, MPH, "Vaccine-preventable hospitalisations in children", 2018

Laura Gough, Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy, "Child protection outcomes for children who are notified to child protection before birth (unborn child concerns) compared to children who are first notified within their first year of life" 2018. 

Shiau Yun Chong, MPH, "Parenting influence on the association between temperament and IQ", 2012

Elizabeth Edyvane, Honours, ‘Is school readiness at age 5-6 associated with academic performance at age 14-15?’, School of Psychology. 2023 Australian Psychological Society Prize for top 4th year student in Psychology at the University of 新浪彩票. 

Jessica Judd, 2020, ‘Mental health-related hospitalisations for adolescents with different levels of contact with the child protection system in South Australia’. 2020. Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Public Health Honours Award.

Ella Price, Honours ‘Prevalence of child maltreatment in Australia and New Zealand’, 2020

Anna Kalamkarian, Honours, ‘Smoking Cessation Care during Pregnancy: A Qualitative Exploration of Midwives’ Tenuous Role’. 2019, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Honours Scholarship awarded on academic merit. Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Public Health Honours Award.

Alexandra Procter, Honours, "Potentially preventable hospitalisaions in children: a more relevant definition", 2017, Fay Fuller/Playford Trust Honours Scholarship in Health Science

Health inequalities
Life course epidemiology
Early child development
Population health surveys and surveillance

Large grants (last 5 years)

2017 - 2018: Pilkington R, Lynch J, Chittleborough C, Mittinty M, Guthridge S, Petersen J. Child maltreatmet and school outcomes. Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation

2016 - 2019: Lynch J, Pilkington R, Gialamas A, Chittleborough C. The Early Childhood Data Project, a Government-Academic Partnership. The South Australian Department for the Premier and Cabinet

2013 – 2015: Lynch J, Chittleborough C, Smithers L, Sawyer M, Brinkman S, Mittinty M, Sawyer A, Bowering K. Child health and development: a South Australian data linkage study. National Health and Medical Research Council Partnership Project.

2011 – 2015: Lawlor D, Kipping R, Jago R, Peters T, Campbell R, Noble S, Chittleborough C, Mytton J. “Active For Life Year 5: A cluster randomised controlled trial of a primary school-based intervention to increase levels of physical activity, decrease sedentary behaviour and improve diet.” UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Public Health Research Programme.

Journal articles

2015

Chong SY, Chittleborough CR, Gregory T, Lynch JW, Smithers LG. How many infants are temperamentally difficult? Comparing norms from the Revised Infant Temperament Questionnaire to a population sample of UK infants. Inf Behav Dev 2015; 40: 20-28.

Dal Grande E, Chittleborough CR, Campostrini S, Tucker G, Taylor AW. The effect of survey raked weighting techniques on health estimates in an Australian population health surveillance system. Am J Epidemiol 2015; 182(6):544-556.

Dal Grande E, Chittleborough CR, Wu J, Shi Z, Goldney RD, Taylor AW. Effect of social mobility in family financial situation and housing tenure on mental health conditions among South Australian adults: results from a population health surveillance system, 2009 to 2011. BMC Public Health 2015; 15: 675.

Grant JF, Chittleborough CR, Taylor AW. Parental midlife body shape and association with multiple adult offspring obesity measures: North West 新浪彩票 Health Study. PLoS ONE 2015; 10: e0137534.

Jago R, Rawlins E, Kipping RR, Well S, Chittleborough C, Peters TJ, Mytton J, Lawlor DA, Campbell R. Lessons learned from the AFLY5 RCT process evaluation: Implications for the design of physical activity and nutrition interventions in schools. BMC Public Health 2015; 15:946.

Sawyer ACP, Chittleborough CR, Mittinty MN, Miller-Lewis L, Sawyer MG, Lynch JW. Are trajectories of self-regulation abilities from ages 2-3 to 6-7 associated with academic achievement in the early school years? Child Care Health Dev 2015; 41: 744-54.

Smithers LG, Searle AK, Chittleborough CR, Scheil W, Brinkman S, Lynch JW. A whole-of-population study of term and post-term gestational age at birth and children's development. BJOG 2015; 122: 1301-11.

2014

Chittleborough CR, Mittinty MN, Lawlor DA, Lynch JW. Effects of simulated interventions to improve school entry academic skills on socioeconomic inequalities in educational achievement. Child Dev 2014; 85(6): 2247-62.

Kipping RR, Howe LD, Jago R, Campbell R, Wells S, Chittleborough CR, Mytton J, Noble SM, Peters TJ, Lawlor DA. Effect of intervention aimed at increasing physical activity, reducing sedentary behaviour, and increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children: Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school based cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2014; 348: g3256.

Montgomerie AM, Chittleborough CR, Taylor AW. Physical inactivity and incidence of obesity among South Australian adults. PLoS ONE 2014; 9(11):e112693.

Page A, Lewis G, Kidger J, Heron J, Chittleborough C, Evans J, Gunnell D. Parental socio-economic position during childhood as a determinant of self-harm in adolescence. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 2014; 49(2): 193-203.

Sawyer ACP, Chittleborough CR, Lynch JW, Baghurst P, Mittinty MN, Kaim ALE, Sawyer MG. Can screening 4-5 year olds accurately identify children who will have teacher-reported mental health problems when children are aged 6-7 years? Aust N Z J Psychiatr 2014; 48(6):554-63.

Smithers L, Chittleborough CR, Stocks N, Sawyer M, Lynch J. Can items used in 4-year-old well-child visits predict children's health and school outcomes? Matern Child Health J 2014; 18:1345-53.

2013

Chittleborough CR, Nicholson AL, Bell S, Young E, Campbell R. Implementation of an educational intervention to improve hand washing in primary schools: process evaluation within a randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health 201