Dr Margaret Stebbing - Researcher Profile

Biography

Margaret is an epidemiologist who came to MUDRIH from the Monash University Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. Margaret grew up in Gippsland and she has recently returned to a new lifestyle in South Gippsland. Her professional background is in nursing and public health practice and research. She has experience in large and small population health research projects and in rural and remote public health and primary health care programs in the Northern Territory, Nepal and China. Margaret’s work at MUDRIH includes lecturing in research design and methods, collaborative population health projects and a research portfolio in the particular areas of population health and the development of innovative health service delivery models. She is skilled in both quantitative and qualitative research methods, including narrative analysis of media texts. Margaret has particular research interests in health protection, injury prevention, Indigenous health, environmental health, communicable diseases and the health risk perceptions and health impacts of climate change.  Margaret’s PhD addressed the topic of public perceptions of health risks associated with new technology and the environment.

Margaret is currently engaged in two research projects:

1. Perceived impacts of long term water insecurity on health and well-being of residents in small rural towns. $14,000 over 18 months - Monash University Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Strategic Program Grant2010/11.

2. Retention of Allied Health Professionals at Retirement Age in Rural Victoria (RETAINR).  $213,000 over 18 months - Victorian Government Dept of Health, Workforce Innovation, Sector Workforce.

Margaret is an active member of the Public Health Association of Australia, a reviewer for the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health and lectures on health risk perception and health risk communication for the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine.

Related Links:

• link to the staff profiles at MUDRIH

Research & Supervision Interests

• rural health workforce recruitment and retention
• public health and population health research
• health promotion
• health protection
• health impacts of adaptation to climate change
• risk perceptions

Keywords

health impacts climate change, health workforce, public health, risk perception, rural, workforce

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PUBLIC HEALTH)

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2010

MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2001

DIPLOMA OF APPLIED SCIENCE IN NURSING

Institution: Royal Melbourne Insititute of Technology

Year awarded: 1981

Publications

Journal Articles

Harriss, L., Ajani, A., Hunt, D., Shaw, J., Chambers, B., Dewey, H., Frayne, J., Beauchamp, A., Duve, K., Giles, G., Harrap, S., Magliano, D., Liew, D., McNeil, J., Peeters, A., Stebbing, M., Wolfe, R., Tonkin, A., 2011, Accuracy of national mortality codes in identifying adjudicated cardiovascular deaths, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health [P], vol 35, issue 5, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 466-476.

Stebbing, M.S., 2009, Avoiding the trust deficit: Public engagement, values, the precautionary principle and the future of nanotechnology, Journal of bioethical inquiry. [P], vol 6, issue 1, Springer Netherlands, Netherlands, pp. 37-48.

Stebbing, M.S., Katz, E., Priestly, B.G., Abramson, M.J., 2008, Cancer clusters in the news: risk perception, risk communication and the media, Australasian Epidemiologist [P], vol 15, issue 2, Australasian Epidemiological Association, Parkville, pp. 27-29.

Stebbing, M.S., 2007, Qualitative methodology and questions of risk: linking the health of individuals to the health of populations, Australasian Epidemiologist [P], vol 14, issue 2, Australasian Epidemiological Association, Parkville, pp. 29-32.

Harrap, S.B., Wong, Z., Stebbing, M.S., Lamantia, A., Bahlo, M., 2002, Blood pressure QTLs identified by genome-wide linkage analysis and dependence on associated phenotypes, Physiological Genomics [P], vol 8, issue 2, American Physiological Society, United States, pp. 99-105.

Ellis, J., Stebbing, M.S., Harrap, S.B., 2001, Male pattern baldness is not associated with established cardiovascular risk factors in the general population, Clinical Science [P], vol 100, issue 4, Portland Press, United Kingdom, pp. 401-404.

Ellis, J., Stebbing, M.S., Harrap, S.B., 2001, Polymorphism of the androgen receptor gene is associated with male pattern baldness, Journal of Investigative Dermatology [P], vol 116, issue 3, Nature Publishing Group, United Kingdom, pp. 452-455.

Ellis, J., Wong, Z., Stebbing, M.S., Harrap, S.B., 2001, Sex, genes and blood pressure, Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology [E], vol 28, issue 12, Wiley-Blackwell publishing Asia, Richmond, pp. 1053-1055.

Ellis, J., Stebbing, M.S., Harrap, S.B., 2001, Significant population variation in adult male heigh associated with the Y chromosome and the aromatase gene, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism [P], vol 86, issue 9, The Endocrine Society, United States, pp. 4147-4150.

Ellis, J., Stebbing, M.S., Harrap, S.B., 2000, Association of the human Y chromosome with high blood pressure in the general population, Hypertension [P], vol 36, issue 5, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, United States, pp. 731-733.

Harrap, S.B., Stebbing, M.S., Hopper, J.L., Hoang, H., Giles, G., 2000, Familial patterns of convariation for cardiovascular risk factors in adults: The Victorian family heart study, American Journal Of Epidemiology [P], vol 152, issue 8, Oxford University Press, United States, pp. 704-715.

Wong, Z., Stebbing, M.S., Ellis, J., Lamantia, A., Harrap, S.B., 1999, Genetic linkage of B and Y subunits of epithelial sodium channel to systolic blood pressure, Lancet [P], vol 353, issue 9160, The Lancet Publishing Group, United Kingdom, pp. 1222-1225.

Ellis, J., Stebbing, M.S., Harrap, S.B., 1999, Insulin gene polymorphism and premature male pattern baldness in the general population, Clinical Science [P], vol 96, issue 6, Portland Press Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 659-662.

Takami, S., Wong, Z., Stebbing, M.S., Harrap, S.B., 1999, Linkage analysis of endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene with human blood pressure, Journal of Hypertension [P], vol 17, issue 10, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 1431-1436.

Ellis, J., Stebbing, M.S., Harrap, S.B., 1998, Genetic analysis of male pattern baldness and the 5 alpha-reductase genes, Journal of Investigative Dermatology [P], vol 110, issue 6, Nature Publishing Group, United Kingdom, pp. 849-853.

Conference Proceedings

Stebbing, M.S., 2012, "You had to live by tanks' - water insecurity and wellbeing in rural towns in a time of drought, Tapping the Turn: Waters Social Dimensions, 15-16 November 2012, Australian National University, Canberra, p. 15.

Stebbing, M.S., 2012, Practising prevention - Adapting high quality evidence in the design of interventions for action at the local community or settings level, Are you Remotely Interested in Prevention? Building a Culture of Safety, 1-4 August 2012, James Cook University, Douglas, p. 1.

Stebbing, M.S., 2012, Retention of allied health professionals at retirement age in rural Victoria (RETAINR): A study in progress, Population Health Congress, 9-12 September 2012, The Public Health Association of Australia, Curtin ACT, p. 108.

Stebbing, M.S., Carey, M.G., Sinclair, M.I., Sim, M.R., 2012, Understanding the vulnerability, resilience and adaptive capacity of households in rural Victorian towns in the context of long term water insecurity, Climate Change 2012: Water and Climate: Policy Implementation Changes; Proceedings of the 2nd Practical Responses to Climate Change Conference, 1-3 May 2012, Canberra, 1 May 2012 to 3 May 2012, Engineers Australia, Barton, ACT, Australia, pp. 106-115.

Stebbing, M.S., 2012, What motivates older allied health professionals in rural areas to stay in the health workforce? - The retention of allied health professionals at retirement age in rural Victoria (RETAINR) project., Are you Remotely Interested in Prevention? Building a Culture of Safety, James Cook University, Douglas, p. 1.

Stebbing, M.S., 2011, Climate change and health: The voices of women in small rural towns in Victoria, Australia, Geneer and Climate Change, 15-16 September 2011, Monash University, Clayton, p. 1.

Stebbing, M.S., 2010, Social amplification of risk: news and media and the emergence of a "Cancer Cluster" narrative in Australia, Language and the Scientific Imagination, 28/7/08 to 2/8/2008, Language Centre, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 1-13.

Stebbing, M.S., Burley, M.B., Steers, N., 2009, Strategies to improve recruitment and retention in a rural community health service: enhancing student placments and Inteprofessional learning (IPL), 2009 General Practice & Primary Health Care Research Conference, 15-17 July 2009, Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, Canberra, p. 81.

Priestly, B.G., Stebbing, M.S., 2008, Risk perception and risk communication: Is nanotechnology at the crossroads in Australia?, Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 25 February to 29 February 2008, IEEE Publishing Company, Melbourne Australia, pp. 238-240.

Other

Stebbing, M.S., Carey, M.G., Sinclair, M.I., Sim, M.R., 2011, Water insecurity and health and wellbeing in rural Victorian towns, Water insecurity and health and wellbeing in rural Victorian towns, PHAA 41st Annual Conference, Brisbane.

Activities

Other committees
2010 - 2011
Gippsland Health Promotion Task Ggroup
Gippsland Health Promotion Research and Action Group
Gippsland Health Services Partnership
2011 - 2011
Second Gippsland Health Promotion Organising Committee
Gippsland Health Services Partnership

Professional engagement
2010 - 2011
Enabling Technologies - Public Awareness & Community Engagement
Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research

Professional organisation memberships
2009 - 2011
member
Member - Victorian Branch Committee
Public Health Association of Australia