Dr Elizabeth Barr

Senior Research Fellow

Qualifications:

PhD, Monash University, 2009; Master of Public Health, University of New South Wales, 2003; Graduate Diploma in Podiatry, La Trobe University, 1996; Bachelor of Podiatry, La Trobe University, 1993.

Approved level of HDR supervision at Charles Darwin University:

PhD

Location:

Melbourne

Biography:

Elizabeth is Head of the Diabetes Epidemiology Group within the DIABETES across the LIFECOURSE: Northern Australian Partnership led by Professor Louise Maple-Brown, and is the Team Leader on the follow-up of the Pregnancy And Neonatal Diabetes Outcomes in Remote Australia (PANDORA) study. Elizabeth established and leads a national consortium of researchers, government and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community stakeholders to improve heart disease risk assessment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples - the Cardiovascular Risk in Indigenous People (CRISP) study. Elizabeth is committed to improving the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, and has provided research leadership on diabetes, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and kidney disease.

Elizabeth’s PhD research program on the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab) at Monash University and Baker Institute highlighted the CVD and mortality risk of not only diabetes but also of intermediately elevated blood glucose. Findings placed hyperglycaemia on the national public health agenda, providing an important rationale for developing diabetes prevention programs across the country. Elizabeth’s PhD work also contributed to large international consortiums: The Emerging Risk Factor Collaboration, headed by a group at Cambridge University; and specifically as a means of validating the Globorisk international CVD risk score.

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Research Themes
  1. Barr, E. L. M., Zimmet, P. Z., Welborn, T. A., Jolley, D., Magliano, D. J., Dunstan, D. W., Cameron, A. J., Dwyer, T., Taylor, H. R., Tonkin, A. M., Wong, T. Y., McNeil, J., & Shaw, J. E. (2007). Risk of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in individuals with diabetes mellitus, impaired fasting glucose, and impaired glucose tolerance: the Australian Diabetes, Obesity, and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab). Circulation, 116(2), 151–157. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.685628
  2. Magliano, D. J., Barr, E. L. M., Zimmet, P. Z., Cameron, A. J., Dunstan, D. W., Colagiuri, S., Jolley, D., Owen, N., Phillips, P., Tapp, R. J., Welborn, T. A., & Shaw, J. E. (2008). Glucose indices, health behaviors, and incidence of diabetes in Australia: the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study. Diabetes care, 31(2), 267–272.
  3. Barr, E. L. M., Boyko, E. J., Zimmet, P. Z., Wolfe, R., Tonkin, A. M., & Shaw, J. E. (2009). Continuous relationships between non-diabetic hyperglycaemia and both cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality: the Australian Diabetes, Obesity, and Lifestyle (AusDiab) study. Diabetologia, 52(3), 415–424.
  4. Dunstan, D. W., Barr, E. L. M., Healy, G. N., Salmon, J., Shaw, J. E., Balkau, B., Magliano, D. J., Cameron, A. J., Zimmet, P. Z., & Owen, N. (2010). Television viewing time and mortality: the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab). Circulation, 121(3), 384–391. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.894824https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-008-1246-yhttps://doi.org/10.2337/dc07-0912
  5. Barr, E. L. M., Cunningham, J., Tatipata, S., Dunbar, T., Kangaharan, N., Guthridge, S., Li, S. Q., Condon, J. R., Shaw, J. E., O'Dea, K., & Maple-Brown, L. J. (2017). Associations of mortality and cardiovascular disease risks with diabetes and albuminuria in urban Indigenous Australians: the DRUID follow-up study. Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association, 34(7), 946–957. https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.13360
  6. Longmore, D. K., Barr, E. L. M., Lee, I. L., Barzi, F., Kirkwood, M., Whitbread, C., Hampton, V., Graham, S., Van Dokkum, P., Connors, C., Boyle, J. A., Catalano, P., Brown, A., O'Dea, K., Oats, J., McIntyre, H. D., Shaw, J. E., Maple-Brown, L. J., & PANDORA study research team (2019). Maternal body mass index, excess gestational weight gain, and diabetes are positively associated with neonatal adiposity in the Pregnancy and Neonatal Diabetes Outcomes in Remote Australia (PANDORA) study. Pediatric obesity, 14(4), e12490. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.12490
  7. Magliano, D., Islam, R., Barr, E. L. M., Gregg, E., Pavkov, M., & Harding, J. et al. (2019). Trends in incidence of total or type 2 diabetes: systematic review. BMJ, l5003. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l5003
  8. Barr, E. L. M., Barzi, F., Hughes, J. T., Jerums, G., Hoy, W. E., O'Dea, K., Jones, G., Lawton, P. D., Brown, A., Thomas, M., Ekinci, E. I., Sinha, A., Cass, A., MacIsaac, R. J., & Maple-Brown, L. J. (2018). High Baseline Levels of Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor 1 Are Associated With Progression of Kidney Disease in Indigenous Australians With Diabetes: The eGFR Follow-up Study. Diabetes care, 41(4), 739–747. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc17-1919
  9. Barr, E. L. M., Barzi, F., Rohit, A., Cunningham, J., Tatipata, S., & McDermott, R. et al. (2020). Performance of cardiovascular risk prediction equations in Indigenous Australians. Heart, 106(16), 1252-1260. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2019-315889
  10. Longmore, D. K., Barr, E. L. M., Wilson, A. N., Barzi, F., Kirkwood, M., Simmonds, A., Lee, I. L., Hawthorne, E., Van Dokkum, P., Connors, C., Boyle, J. A., Zimmet, P., O'Dea, K., Oats, J., McIntyre, H. D., Brown, A., Shaw, J. E., & Maple-Brown, L. J. (2020). Associations of gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes during pregnancy with breastfeeding at hospital discharge and up to 6 months: the PANDORA study. Diabetologia, 63(12), 2571–2581. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-020-05271-9
  1. Jessica Mauboy sings out to end Indigenous diabetes and heart disease epidemic

    Jessica Mauboy sings out to end Indigenous diabetes and heart disease epidemic

    Date

    Singer Jessica Mauboy is calling for Darwin-based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to complete a quick survey as part of the Diabetes and Related Conditions in Urban Indigenous People in the Darwin Region (DRUID) study, a ground-breaking diabetes and heart disease study.

  2. Media Alert | Health experts in Darwin to discuss diabetes in pregnancy

    Media Alert | Health experts in Darwin to discuss diabetes in pregnancy

    Date

    Menzies - Diabetes across the Lifecourse: Northern Australia Partnership – Annual Educational Symposium on Friday, 27 September.