Rate My Professor Shanthi Ameratunga

Shanthi Neranjana Ameratunga is an Honorary Professor at the University of Auckland. She holds a personal chair in Epidemiology and previously served as a full professor in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. Ameratunga earned her PhD from the University of Auckland in 2005 with a thesis titled Disability following car crashes: an epidemiological investigation, supervised by Robyn Norton and Rod Jackson. A paediatrician and public health physician by training, her research focuses on injury and trauma outcomes, disability, child and youth health, health and transport equity, and health services research.

Ameratunga has contributed to major projects including the Traffic Related Injury in the Pacific (TRIP) Study, national youth health surveys (Youth2000 and Youth’07), YourCall mobile phone intervention for reducing alcohol-related harm among trauma patients, and the ADAPT/MEMO trial for depression prevention in young people. She served on the WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission “A future for the world’s children?” in 2020. In 2013, she received the Injury Prevention Network Te Manaia national leadership award. Ameratunga has supervised numerous postgraduate students, coordinated the Global Health module for over 1000 students, and authored more than 170 publications including journal articles, book chapters, and monographs. Her verified professional email is s.ameratunga@auckland.ac.nz.