Professor Anne Kavanagh, BMBS PhD FAFPHM
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Background
Professor Anne Kavanagh is a medically trained epidemiologist who is well-known for her work on cancer screening programs and social epidemiology.
In 2001 Professor Kavanagh was awarded a prestigious VicHealth Senior Research Fellowship for the topic "The importance of place in health inequalities". Her work is featured extensively in national and international media and she has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences and seminars.
One of the key foci of Professor Kavanagh’s research program is gender and health inequalities. In 2006 she convened the First Australian Conference on Gender and Health Inequalities. She co-edited the special issue of the Australian Journal of Social Issues on papers arising from the conference.
Professor Kavanagh has received $8 million dollars in competitive grant funding including $2.4 million as co-investigator on a prestigious NHMRC Capacity Building Grant, The Australian Health Inequities Program.
She is the Principal Investigator on a number large projects including: the Victorian Lifestyle and Neighbourhood Environments Study; a project funded by the National Heart Foundation, ‘Environment predictors of biomarkers in the AusDiab study’ and an NHMRC funded project ‘Evaluation of the efficacy of the Australian mammographic screening program’.
She has extensive research collaborations within The Melbourne School of Population Health and The University of Melbourne. She also collaborates with researchers from other Australian and overseas universities including Flinders University of South Australia, Queensland University of Technology, University of Tasmania, International Diabetes Institute and Queensland Monash, Deakin and Harvard Universities.
Research interests
- Gender and social and economic inequalities and heath
- Built environment and health particularly diet, physical activity and obesity
- Evaluation of breast cancer screening programs
- Mammographic density and the performance of screening mammography
- Gender, work and health
Publications (since 2003)
Kelaher M, Cawson J, Miller J, Kavanagh AM, Dunt D, Studdert D. Use of breast cancer screening and treatment services by Australian women aged 25 to 44 years following Kylie Minogue’s cancer diagnosis. International Journal of Epidemiology (accepted May 2008)
Kamphuis CB, Giskes K, Kavanagh AM, Thornton LE, Thomas LR, van Lenthe F, Mackenbach J, Turrell G. Area variation in recreational cycling in Melbourne: a compositional or contextual effect? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. (Accepted January 2008)
Kavanagh AM and Bentley RJ. Walking: A gender issue? Australian Journal of Social Issues. 2008;43(1):45-64.
Bentley RJ and Kavanagh AM. Gender equity and women’s contraceptive use. Australian Journal of Social Issues. 2008;43(1):65-80
Bentley R, Kavanagh AM, Subramanian SV, Turrell G. Area disadvantage, socio-economic position and cancer mortality in Australia. Cancer Causes Control. 2008;19(2):183-93
O’Dwyer L, Baum F, Kavanagh AM, MacDougall C. Do area based interventions to reduce health inequalities work? A systematic review of the evidence. Critical Public Health. 2007 17(4): 317-335.
Nickson C and Kavanagh AM. The feasibility of routinely collecting detailed information about menopausal history and Hormone Therapy use from women participating in an organised breast cancer screening program. Australasian Epidemiologist (peer-reviewed section) 2007; 14(2): 18-21
Turrell G, Kavanagh AM, Draper G, Subramanian SV. Do places affect the probability of death in Australia? A multilevel study of area-level disadvantage, individual-level socioeconomic position, and all-cause mortality, 1998-2000. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2007; 61:13-19
Kavanagh AM, Bentley R, Turrell G, Broom DB & Subramanian SV. Does gender modify associations between social capital and self-rated health?. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2006:60 490-495.
Kavanagh AM, Turrell G & Subramanian SV. Does area based social capital matter for the health of Australians: A multilevel analysis. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2006: Jun;35(3):607-13
Turrell G, Kavanagh AM & Subramanian SV. Area variation in mortality in Tasmania ( Australia): the contributions of socioeconomic disadvantage, social capital and geographic remoteness. Health and Place 2006;12(3):291-305
Kavanagh AM, Goller J, King T, Jolley D, Crawford D & Turrell G. Urban area disadvantage and physical activity: a multilevel study in Melbourne, Australia. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2005 Nov 59(11):934-40.
King T, Kavanagh AM, Jolley D, Turrell G & Crawford D. Weight and place: a multilevel cross-sectional survey of area-level social disadvantage and overweight/obesity in Australia. Int J Obes (Lond). 2006: 30(2):281-7
Kavanagh AM, Davidson N, Jolley D, Heuzenroeder L, Evans J, Gertig D & Amos A. Determinants of false positive recall in an Australian mammographic screening program. Breast. 2006 Aug;15(4):510-8
Turrell G & Kavanagh AM. Socio-economic pathways to diet: Modelling the association between socio-economic position and food-purchasing behaviour. Public Health Nutrition. 2006 May;9(3):375-83.
McNair R, Kavanagh AM, Agius P & Tong B. The mental health status of young and mid-age non-heterosexual Australian women. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 2005;29(3): 265-71
Fletcher AS, Erbas B, Kavanagh AM, Hart S, Rodger A & Gertig DM. Use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and survival following breast cancer diagnosis. The Breast. 2005;14(3): 192-200
Kavanagh AM, Cawson J, Byrnes G, Giles GG, Marr G, Tong B, Gertig G & Hooper J. Hormone replacement therapy, mammographic density and the sensitivity of mammography. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 2005;14:160-64
Erbas B, Amos A, Kavanagh AM, Fletcher A & Gertig D. Should older women continue mammographic screening? Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 2004; 13(10):1569-73
Adams K, Kavanagh AM & Guthrie J. The ascertainment and reporting of Indigenous status at BreastScreen Victoria. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 2004;28(2):124-7
Hillier L, DeVisser R, Kavanagh AM & McNair, R. The association between licit and illicit drug use and sexuality in young women. Medical Journal of Australia. 2003;179(6): 326-7
Gertig DM, Erbas B, Fletcher A, Amos A & Kavanagh AM. Hormone replacement therapy, breast tumour size and grade in a mammographic screening program. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 2003;80(3): 267-73
Cawson JN, Malara F, Kavnagh AM, Hill P, Balasubramanium G & Henderson M. Fourteen-gauge needle core biopsy of mammographically evident radial scars: Is excision necessary? Cancer. 2003;97:345-51