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Overview

Stuart A. Kinner is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has contributed extensively to research at the intersection of public health, criminal justice, and social issues. Their work covers multiple fields including Medicine, Social Sciences, and Health Professions, with a focus on general health professions, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, epidemiology, and emergency medicine.

The research topics addressed by Kinner broadly include homelessness and social issues, criminal justice and corrections analysis, emergency and acute care studies, migration, health and trauma, child abuse and trauma, opioid use disorder treatment, and suicide and self-harm studies.

Kinner's recent papers include:

  • "Prisons and custodial settings are part of a comprehensive response to COVID-19" (2020), The Lancet Public Health
  • "The health of adolescents in detention: a global scoping review" (2020), The Lancet Public Health
  • "Global Prison Health Care Governance and Health Equity: A Critical Lack of Evidence" (2020), American Journal of Public Health
  • "Risk of overdose-related death for people with a history of incarceration" (2020), Addiction
  • "Health determinants of adolescent criminalisation" (2020), The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Frequent co-authors in Kinner's work include Rohan Borschmann, Jesse T Young, Matthew J. Spittal, David B. Preen, and Claire Keen. This collaboration indicates a network of researchers focused on overlapping themes in health and justice.

Publication venues where Kinner has frequently contributed include the International Journal for Population Data Science, The Lancet Public Health, Addiction, Health & Justice, and the Australian Health Review. These venues reflect Kinner's engagement with interdisciplinary approaches that combine health data, policy, and social dimensions.

Best Publications

  • Global burden of HIV, viral hepatitis, and tuberculosis in prisoners and detainees.

    Kate Dolan;Andrea L Wirtz;Babak Moazen;Martial Ndeffo-mbah

  • Progress in adolescent health and wellbeing: tracking 12 headline indicators for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016

    Peter S Azzopardi;Stephen J C Hearps;Kate L Francis;Elissa C Kennedy;Elissa C Kennedy

  • Prisons and Custodial Settings Are Part of a Comprehensive Response to COVID-19

    Stuart A Kinner;Jesse T Young;Kathryn Snow;Louise Southalan

  • Understanding and Improving the Health of People Who Experience Incarceration: An Overview and Synthesis.

    Stuart A Kinner;Jesse T Young;Jesse T Young;Jesse T Young

  • Do paternal arrest and imprisonment lead to child behaviour problems and substance use? A longitudinal analysis

    Stuart A. Kinner;Rosa Alati;Jake M. Najman;Gail M. Williams

  • The epidemiology of methamphetamine use and harm in Australia

    Louisa Degenhardt;Amanda Roxburgh;Emma Black;Raimondo Bruno

  • Incidence and risk factors for non-fatal overdose among a cohort of recently incarcerated illicit drug users

    Stuart A. Kinner;M. J. Milloy;M. J. Milloy;Evan Wood;Evan Wood;Jiezhi Qi

  • A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials of Interventions to Improve the Health of Persons During Imprisonment and in the Year After Release

    Fiona G. Kouyoumdjian;Kathryn E. McIsaac;Jessica Liauw;Samantha Green

  • Self-Harm among Young People Detained in the Youth Justice System in Sri Lanka.

    Lushan V. Hettiarachchi;Stuart A. Kinner;Holly Tibble;Rohan Borschmann

  • The health of adolescents in detention: a global scoping review.

    Rohan Borschmann;Emilia Janca;Annie Carter;Melissa Willoughby

  • Australian Trends in Ecstasy and Related Drug Markets 2007: Findings from the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS)

    M Dunn;L Degenhardt;G Campbell;J George

  • Systematic review of record linkage studies of mortality in ex-prisoners: why (good) methods matter

    Stuart A. Kinner;Simon Forsyth;Gail Williams

  • The Case for Improving the Health of Ex-Prisoners.

    Stuart A. Kinner;Emily A. Wang

  • Early Predictors of Adult Drinking: A Birth Cohort Study

    Rosa Alati;Jake M. Najman;Stuart A. Kinner;Abdullah A. Mamun

  • Prevalence of mental illness among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Queensland prisons

    Edward B Heffernan;Kimina C Andersen;Abhilash Dev;Stuart A Kinner;Stuart A Kinner

  • Health-related factors predict return to custody in a large cohort of ex-prisoners: new approaches to predicting re-incarceration

    Emma G Thomas;Matthew J Spittal;Faye S Taxman;Stuart A Kinner;Stuart A Kinner;Stuart A Kinner

  • Attitudes Towards Seclusion and Restraint in Mental Health Settings: Findings From a Large, Community-Based Survey of Consumers, Carers and Mental Health Professionals

    Stuart A. Kinner;C. Harvey;B. Hamilton;L. Brophy

  • Outcomes of the Victorian Safewards trial in 13 wards: Impact on seclusion rates and fidelity measurement

    Justine Fletcher;Mathew Spittal;Lisa Brophy;Lisa Brophy;Holly Tibble

  • Global Prison Health Care Governance and Health Equity: A Critical Lack of Evidence.

    Katherine E McLeod;Amanda Butler;Jesse T Young;Louise Southalan

  • Trends in morphine prescriptions, illicit morphine use and associated harms among regular injecting drug users in Australia

    Louisa Degenhardt;Emma Black;Courtney Breen;Raimondo Bruno

  • Gender differences in the relationships between alcohol, tobacco and mental health in patients attending an emergency department.

    Rosa Alati;Stuart Kinner;Jake M. Najman;Greg Fowler

  • Australian Drug Trends 2007: Findings from the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS)

    Emma Black;Amanda Roxburgh;Louisa Degenhardt;Raimondo Bruno

  • ASystematicReviewofRandomizedControlledTrialsof InterventionstoImprovetheHealthofPersonsDuring ImprisonmentandintheYearAfterRelease

    Fiona G. Kouyoumdjian;Kathryn E. McIsaac;Jessica Liauw;Samantha Green

Frequent Co-Authors

Rohan Borschmann
Rohan Borschmann University of Melbourne
Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt University of New South Wales
Mark Stoove
Mark Stoove Burnet Institute
Matthew J Spittal
Matthew J Spittal University of Melbourne
Rosa Alati
Rosa Alati Curtin University
Raimondo Bruno
Raimondo Bruno University of Tasmania
Nicholas Lennox
Nicholas Lennox University of Queensland
Tony Butler
Tony Butler University of New South Wales
Paul Moran
Paul Moran University of Bristol
Gail M. Williams
Gail M. Williams University of Queensland

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