Alicia Montgomerie

Grant-Funded Researcher (B)

School of Public Health

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Alicia Montgomerie is a senior research associate in the School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, South Australia, as a part of the BetterStart Child Health and Development research group. Alicia is an epidemiologist who specialises in manipulating and analysing large population-based linked administrative data. Over the last 5 years, Alicia has worked as lead analyst on the Better Evidence Better Outcomes Link Data (BEBOLD) platform, one of the most comprehensive population-based linked administrative research databases in Australia, that spans data from health, education, justice, child protection, homelessness, and welfare. She currently works with the South Australian and Victorian governments using linked administrative data to generate evidence to support the reform of the child and family systems.

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Alicia works as a research associate in the School of Public Health, University of Adelaide as a part of the BetterStart Child Health and Development research group led by Professor John Lynch. She works on the Better Evidence Better Outcomes Linked Data (BEBOLD) platform, one of the most comprehensive population-based linked administrative research databases in Australia. Her research focuses on investigating children that come in contact with the child protection system and trying to identify children early that are at risk of maltreatment. As well as exploring their health, developmental, academic and behavioural outcomes by linking to other administrative datasets.

For more information about BetterStart and BEBOLD please click here

BetterStart Child Health and Development Research Group Student Projects
For information on available projects please view the following booklet: School of Public Health Student Projects

Appointments

Date Position Institution name
2016 - ongoing Research Associate University of Adelaide
2012 - 2016 Research Associate University of Adelaide
Language Competencies

Language Competency
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
Education

Date Institution name Country Title
University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Health Sciences
University of Adelaide Australia Masters of Public Health

Date	Position	Institution name
2016 - ongoing	Research Associate	University of Adelaide
2012 - 2016	Research Associate	University of Adelaide

Language	Competency
English	Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
	University of Adelaide	Australia	Bachelor of Health Sciences
	University of Adelaide	Australia	Masters of Public Health

Journals

Year	Citation
2024	Abdul Rahim, R., Pilkington, R., D'Onise, K., Montgomerie, A., & Lynch, J. (2024). Counting culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) children in Australian health research: Does it matter how we count?. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 100129. DOI
2024	Malvaso, C., Magann, M., Ribeiro Santiago, P. H., Montgomerie, A., Delfabbro, P., Day, A., . . . Lynch, J. (2024). Early versus late contact with the youth justice system: opportunities for prevention and diversion. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 36(1), 16-41. DOI Scopus1
2023	Judd, J., Pilkington, R., Malvaso, C., Procter, A., Montgomerie, A., Anderson, J., . . . Chittleborough, C. (2023). Mental health-related hospitalisations among adolescents with previous child protection contact from birth to age 11. DOI
2023	Abdul Rahim, R., Pilkington, R., Procter, A. M., Montgomerie, A., Mittinty, M. N., D'Onise, K., & Lynch, J. (2023). Child protection contact among children of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds: A South Australian linked data study. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 59(4), 644-652. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2023	Goddard, J., Montgomerie, A., Gialamas, A., Haag, D., Anderson, J., & Lynch, J. (2023). Excess hospital burden amongst young people in contact with homelessness services in South Australia - a prospective linked data study. Journal of Adolescent Health, 73(3), 519-526. DOI
2022	Malvaso, C., Montgomerie, A., Pilkington, R. M., Baker, E., & Lynch, J. W. (2022). Examining the intersection of child protection and public housing: development, health and justice outcomes using linked administrative data. BMJ Open, 12(6), 1-7. DOI Scopus4 WoS2 Europe PMC1
2022	Procter, A. M., Chittleborough, C. R., Pilkington, R. M., Pearson, O., Montgomerie, A., & Lynch, J. W. (2022). The Hospital Burden Associated With Intergenerational Contact With the Welfare System in Australia. JAMA Network Open, 5(8), 1-14. DOI Scopus3 WoS1 Europe PMC3
2021	Procter, A., Chittleborough, C., Pilkington, R., Pearson, O., Montgomerie, A., & Lynch, J. (2021). The hospital burden of intergenerational contact with the welfare system:<i>A whole-of-population liked data study</i>. DOI
2021	Procter, A. M., Gialamas, A., Pilkington, R. M., Montgomerie, A., Chittleborough, C. R., Smithers, L. G., & Lynch, J. W. (2021). Characteristics of paediatric frequent presenters at emergency departments: a whole-of-population study. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 57(1), 64-72. DOI Scopus4 WoS3 Europe PMC3
2020	Malvaso, C., Pilkington, R., Montgomerie, A., Delfabbro, P., & Lynch, J. (2020). A public health approach to preventing child maltreatment: an intelligent information infrastructure to help us know what works. Child Abuse and Neglect, 106, 104466-1-104466-9. DOI Scopus6 WoS2 Europe PMC1
2018	Taylor, A., Dal Grande, E., Fateh-Moghadam, P., Montgomerie, A., Battisti, L., Barrie, H., . . . Campostrini, S. (2018). Comparison of health and risk factors of older, working-age Australians, Italians and Italian-born migrants to Australia, with data from an Italian (PASSI), and an Australian (SAMSS) risk factor surveillance system. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 20(5), 1190-1196. DOI Scopus3 WoS2 Europe PMC3
2017	Stockley, C. S., Taylor, A. W., Montgomerie, A., & Dal Grande, E. (2017). Changes in wine consumption are influenced most by health: results from a population survey of South Australians in 2013. International Journal of Wine Research, 9(1), 13-22. DOI Scopus7
2016	Taylor, A., Pilkington, R., Montgomerie, A., & Feist, H. (2016). The role of business size in assessing the uptake of health promoting workplace initiatives in Australia. BMC Public Health, 16(1), 1-8. DOI Scopus38 WoS34 Europe PMC21
2015	Taylor, A., Shi, Z., Montgomerie, A., Dal Grande, E., & Campostrini, S. (2015). The use of a chronic disease and risk factor surveillance system to determine the age, period and cohort effects on the prevalence of obesity and diabetes in South Australian adults - 2003-2013. PLoS ONE, 10(4), e0125233-1-e0125233-11. DOI Scopus9 WoS8 Europe PMC7
2014	Montgomerie, A., Chittleborough, C., & Taylor, A. (2014). Physical inactivity and incidence of obesity among South Australian adults. PLoS One, 9(11), e112693-1-e112693-7. DOI Scopus11 WoS12 Europe PMC6
2013	Tideman, P., Taylor, A., Janus, E., Philpot, B., Clark, R., Peach, E., . . . Dunbar, J. (2013). A comparison of Australian rural and metropolitan cardiovascular risk and mortality: the Greater Green Triangle and North West Adelaide population surveys. BMJ Open, 3(8), 1-10. DOI Scopus14 WoS17 Europe PMC7

Book Chapters

Year	Citation
2023	Pilkington, R., Malvaso, C., Montgomerie, A., Falster, K., Chittleborough, C., Pearson, O., . . . Lynch, J. (2023). How will we obtain High-Quality Evidence to Inform Youth Crime Prevention and Reduction?. In Frontiers in Developmental and Life-Course Criminology: Methodological Innovation and Social Benefit (pp. 20-33). Routledge. DOI

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
2021	Chittleborough, C., Brown, T., Schuch, H., Kalamkarian, A., Pilkington, R., Montgomerie, A., . . . Lynch, J. (2021). Thriving in adversity: positive child development despite early disadvantage in a whole-of-population data linkage study. In INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY Vol. 50 (pp. 1 page). OXFORD UNIV PRESS. DOI
2021	Chittleborough, C., Schuch, H., Pilkington, R., Montgomerie, A., Grant, J., Petersen, J., & Lynch, J. (2021). Considering child maltreatment in social inequalities of educational achievement: a whole-of-population data linkage study. In INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY Vol. 50 (pp. 48). OXFORD UNIV PRESS. DOI
2018	Montgomerie, A., Pilkington, R., Chittleborough, C., Petersen, J., & Lynch, J. (2018). Young maternal age as a predictor of children’s experience of out of home care. In XXII Congress of International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) Abstract Book (pp. 315). Prague, Czech Republic.

Report for External Bodies

Year	Citation
2017	Montgomerie, A., Pilkington, R. M., & Lynch, J. (2017). Does an extra year of preschool matter? A research brief for the SA Department of the Premier and Cabinet and the SA Department for Education and Child Development..
2017	Pilkington, R., Grant, J., Chittleborough, C., Gialamas, A., Montgomerie, A., & Lynch, J. (2017). Child Protection in South Australia.
2017	Gialamas, A., Montgomerie, A., Pilkington, R., & Lynch, J. (2017). Risk Factors for Child Protection Notification Under Age One: SA Birthing Hospitals 2010-2013.
2010	Montgomerie, A. M., Tideman, P., Taylor, A. W., Janus, E., Philpot, B., Tirimacco, R., . . . Dunbar, J. (2010). An epidemiological analysis of risk factors: Rural versus metropolitan – are there differences?. Population Research & Outcome Studies Unit – SA Health, Adelaide; and Greater Green Triangle, University Department of Rural Health, Flinders University and Deakin University.

Competitive Research Funding

State Competitive Schemes

Date	Project/No.	Investigators	Funding Body	Amount
2020	Young parents and child protection: the intergenerational story	Chittleborough C, Pilkington R, Montgomerie A, Grant J, Beall J, Lynch J.	Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation	AUD 96,571

Practical facilitator
Date	Course
2017	PUB HLTH 7106 - Epidemiological Research Methods
2017 - 2019	PUB HLTH 1001 - Health and Illness in Populations

Guest lecturer
Date	Course
2019	PUB HLTH 7075 - Introduction to Epidemiology (Masters of Public Health)

Other Supervision Activities

Date	Role	Research Topic	Location	Program	Supervision Type	Student Load	Student Name
2022 - ongoing	Co-Supervisor	The intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment, and health and developmental outcomes for children	The University of Adelaide	Masters of Public Health	Master	Part Time	Meredith Forsyth
2021 - 2021	Co-Supervisor	The need for early intervention: costs associated with children with a prenatal child protection report transitioning into out-of-home care: population based linked data study	The University of Adelaide	Honours in Public Health	Honours	Full Time	Ben Karnon
2021 - 2021	Principal Supervisor	Burden of emergency department presentations and hospitalisations amongst young people experiencing or at risk of homelessness in South Australia – a whole of population data linkage study	The University of Adelaide	Honours in Public Health	Honours	Full Time	Joshua Goddard
2019 - ongoing	Co-Supervisor	The causal effect of early life socio-economic disadvantage and child maltreatment on children’s development outcomes at school entry: A flexible mediation analysi	The Univesity of Adelaide	Master of Public Health	Master	Full Time	Luke Collier

Committee Memberships

Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
2012 - 2014	Member	South Australian Physical Activity survey advisory committee	SA Health	Australia
2009 - 2012	Member	South Australia Gestational Diabetes Recall Register advisory committee	SA Health	Australia

Position: Grant-Funded Researcher (B)
Phone: 83130604
Email: alicia.montgomerie@adelaide.edu.au
Campus: North Terrace
Building: Rundle Mall Plaza, floor 4
Org Unit: Public Health

Alicia Montgomerie

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