Dr Bianca Albanese
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Appointments
Senior Research Fellow, NeuRAKey Research Areas
A/Prof Julie Brown’s (BSc PhD) background in policy development and her research strength is providing translatable injury prevention outcomes. She uses laboratory and field-based studies, as well as data analysis, to investigate injury mechanisms, and the factors important to injury outcome. Since joining NeuRA in 2005, her research focus has been on reducing injury among child occupants, and more recently elderly occupants and other users of the rear seat in motor vehicles.
2025 Mar
Are child and teenage occupants appropriately restrained while travelling in rideshare vehicles?
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2025.101987
2025 Mar
Behind the wheel: Examining the long-term effects of a safe transport education program on driving patterns in older adults
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101978
2024, 24 Dec
Changes in child restraint practices in Shenzhen, China three years after the enactment of local legislation: two population-based cross-sectional surveys
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ip-2024-045469
2024 Dec
Global, regional, and national burden of injuries, and burden attributable to injuries risk factors, 1990 to 2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease study 2019
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2024.06.011
2024 Dec
Purchasing choices of older drivers on advanced vehicle technologies: A discrete choice experiment
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2024.09.003
2024 Nov
How will physical activity change in an autonomous future?
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101924
2024, 26 Sep
User-driven instructions reduce errors in child restraint use: a randomised controlled trial in Sydney, Australia
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2023-045213
2024 Aug
Evaluation of the effectiveness of three different interventions on older driver safety over a 12-month period: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087137
2024, 15 Apr
The effects of postural support padding modifications to child restraints for children with disability on crash protection
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2024.2334400
2024 Apr
Public support for proposed government policies to optimise the social benefits of autonomous vehicles
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2024.02.016
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