Dr Alexandra Martiniuk is a Senior Research Fellow in the Injury and Mental Health Divisions at The George Institute. She trained in Canada as an epidemiologist and has been in Australia for 5 years as Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney. Dr Martiniuk is currently a fellow of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Her primary research interests are in the psychosocial aspects of chronic disease (epilepsy, cancer) and injury in the Asia Pacific region. Her past research includes work into the burden of HIV/AIDS in Belize, epilepsy in Canada, and chronic diseases (cancer, cardiovascular disease) in Canada and the Asia Pacific region.
Past and current projects include work in and/or with colleagues from Asia (China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea), Belize, Canada, Honduras, the Middle East, New Zealand and the Solomon Islands. Dr Martiniuk currently facilitates problem-based learning sessions in the medical sciences program and is also a moderator for the online Injury Epidemiology, Prevention and Control course (see Education).
Dr Martiniuk’s current projects include research on DRIVE (a study of vehicle crashes in youth), SEISMIC (a study of the burden of epilepsy) and the Fletcher Challenge and New Zealand Blood Donors Cohort Studies. As well as continued work with the Solomon Islands, Canadian Epilepsy Alliance and Trillium Childhood Cancer Support Centre.
