Dr Liana Luzzi

Dr Liana Luzzi
 Position Grant-Funded Researcher (C)
 Org Unit Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health
 Email liana.luzzi@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone +61 8 8313 4049
 Location Floor/Room Level Four ,  44-60 Rundle Mall - Rundle Mall Plaza ,   North Terrace

  • Biography/ Background

    Liana Luzzi is a Research Fellow in the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health (ARCPOH) at the University of Adelaide. Liana is also Director of the Dental Statistics and Research Unit (DSRU), a collaborating unit of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). She received her BSc(Ma.&Comp.Sc.) in 1995, BSc(Ma.&Comp.Sc )(Honours in Statistics) in 1996 and a PhD in 2005 from the University of Adelaide. Liana has been involved in dental health services research and in analysing data relating to oral health and access to dental care. She has worked on a range of projects involving both cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of service use such as research examining public dental service utilisation in South Australia. Areas of interest include use of dental health services, access to dental care, factors influencing dental expenditure and dentist job satisfaction.

  • Qualifications
    • PhD, University of Adelaide
    • BSc(Ma.&Comp.Sc.), University of Adelaide
    • BSc(Ma.&Comp.Sc.)(Hons), University of Adelaide

  • Awards & Achievements

    • Australian Dental Journal: Award of Excellence for most outstanding scientific paper (2011)
    • National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Public Health Postgraduate Research Scholarship (2001-2003)

  • Teaching Interests

    • Evidence-Based Dentistry

  • Research Funding

    • 2005
      Australian Dental Research Foundation (ADRF) Inc. Grant to support a study entitled: "Job satisfaction survey of the oral health labour force in Australia". Principal investigator: Luzzi L, Associate investigator: Spencer AJ
    • 2010 - 2012
      NHMRC New Investigator Project Grant ID No. 627222. Prevention and control of caries in older adults in residential aged care. CIA: Tan H, CIB: Luzzi L, AI1: Spender AJ, AI2: Pradhan A
    • 2010
      The Australian Association of Gerontology - RM Gibson Scientific Research Fund. A pilot study on prevention of caries in older adults in residential aged care. Tan H, Luzzi L, Spencer AJ
    • 2011 - 2014
      NHMRC Project Grant ID No. 1011589. Intergenerational change in oral health in Australia. CIA: Harford J, CIB: Luzzi L, CIC: Tan H, CID: Mejia G, CIE: Roberts-Thomson KF, CIF: Spencer AJ.

  • Publications

    Luzzi L, Spencer AJ, Jones K, Teusner DN. Job satisfaction of registered dental practitioners. Australian Dental Journal 2005 Sep; 50(3):179-85.

    Brennan DS, Luzzi L, Roberts-Thomson KF. Dental service patterns among private and public patients. BMC Health Services Research 2008 Jan 3; 8(1):1 [Epub ahead of print]

    Luzzi L, Spencer AJ. Factors influencing the use of public dental services: an application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour. BMC Health Services Research. 2008 Apr 30;8:93.

    Roberts-Thomson KF, Luzzi L, Brennan DS. Social inequality in use of dental services: relief of pain and extractions. Australian New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 2008 Oct;32(5):444-9.

    Luzzi L, Spencer AJ. Public dental service utilization among adults in South Australia. Australian Dental Journal 2009 Jun;54(2):154-60.

    Luzzi L, Jones K, Spencer AJ, Roberts-Thomson KF. Association of urgent dental care with subjective oral health indicators and psychosocial impact. Community Dent Health. 2009 Jun;26(2):77-83

    Luzzi L, Spencer AJ, Jones K, Roberts-Thomson KF. Predicting relative need for urgent dental care. Community Dent Health. 2009 Sep;26(3):162-9.

    Luzzi L, Spencer AJ. Job satisfaction of the oral health labour force in Australia (published abstract S34). ADRF Special Research Supplement, Supplement to Australian Dental Journal. 2009 Dec;54(4):S1-S163

    Luzzi L, Spencer AJ. Job satisfaction of the oral health labour force in Australia. Aust Dent J. 2011 Mar;56(1):23-32.

    Roberts-Thomson K, Luzzi L, Stewart J. Families and their use of dental services. Aust Dent J. 2012 Mar;57(1):103-8.

    Brennan D, Do L, Harford J, Luzzi L, Marveggio S, Roberts-Thomson KF, White A. Preface. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 40(Suppl. 2):iv.

    Chrisopoulos S, Luzzi L, Brennan DS. Trends in dental visiting avoidance due to cost in Australia, 1994 to 2010: an age period-cohort analysis. BMC Health Serv Res. 2013 Oct 3;13:381

    Luzzi L, Chrisopoulos S, Brennan DS. Decline in usually visiting the dentist for a problem in Australia, 1994 to 2010: an age-period-cohort analysis. Comm Dent and Oral Epi. 2014 Aug;42(4):349-357

    Armfield JM, Mohan H, Luzzi L, Chrisopoulos S. Dental anxiety screening practices and self-reported training needs among Australian dentists. Aust Dent J. 2014 Dec; 59:464-472

    Luzzi L, Harford J. Financial burden of dental care among Australian children. Australian Dental Journal 2014 Jun;59(2):268-72

    Lalloo R, Jamieson LM, Ha D, Ellershaw AE, Luzzi L. Does fluoride in the water close the dental caries gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children in Australia? Australian Dental Journal 2014 (accepted 12 October 2014) (e-pub ahead of print): doi: 10.1111/adj.12239.

    Kempster, C, Luzzi L, Roberts-Thomson K. Australian dentists: characteristics of those who employ or are willing to employ oral health therapists. Aust Dent J. 2015 Jun;60(2):154-62

    Peres MA, Luzzi L, Peres KG, Sabbah W, Antunes JL, Do LG. Income-related inequalities in inadequate dentition over time in Australia, Brazil and USA. Comm Dent and Oral Epi. 2015 Jun;43(3):217-25

    Lalloo R, Jamieson LM, Ha D, Luzzi L. Inequalities in tooth decay in Australian children by neighbourhood characteristics and Indigenous status. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 2016;27(1A):161-177.

    Ha DH, Do LG, Luzzi L, Mejia GC, Jamieson LM. Changes in Area-level Socioeconomic Status and Oral Health of Indigenous Australian Children. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2016;27(1A):110-124.

    Jamieson LM, Brennan DS, Peres M, Luzzi L, Miller C, Bowden J, McCaffrey N. Having fewer than 21 teeth associated with poorer general health among South Australians. J Public Health Dent. 2017 Jun;77(3):216-224. doi: 10.1111/jphd.12200. Epub 2017 Feb 13.

    Peres M, Luzzi L. Oral Health Inequalities in Australia. Special issue on "Oral Health Inequalities and Health Systems in Asia Pacific". Nature India, 2 February 2017, S12-S13 {doi:10.1038/nindia.2017.25 Published online 17 March 2017)

    Hariyani, Ninuk; Spencer, John; Luzzi, Liana; Do, Loc. Root Caries Experience among Australians Adults Gerodontology (GER-16-OA-1909.R2) Accepted 7 April 2017.

    Armfield JM, Crego A, Schuch HS, Luzzi L. The role of cognitions in short-term temporal changes in dental fear among Australian adults. J Public Health Dent. Dec;78(1):32-40. doi: 10.1111/jphd.12232. Epub 2017 Aug 3

    Nair R, Ishaque S, John Spencer, Luzzi L, Do LG. Critical review of the validity of patient satisfaction questionnaires pertaining to oral-health care. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. Aug;46(4):369-375. doi: 10.1111/cdoe.12377. Epub 2018 Mar 30

    Hariyani N, Setyowati D, Spencer AJ, Luzzi L, Do LG. Root caries incidence and increment in the population - A systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression of longitudinal studies. J Dent. 2018 Oct;77:1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jdent.2018.06.013. Epub 2018 Jun 21. Review.

    Hariyani N, Spencer AJ, Luzzi L, Do LG. Root surface caries among older Australians. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2018 Dec;46(6):535-544. doi: 10.1111/cdoe.12386. Epub 2018 Jul 4.

    Nair R, Do LG, Luzzi L, Brennan D, Roberts-Thomson KF, Spencer AJ. Psychometric properties of the Child Oral-care Performance Assessment Scale. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2019 Oct;47(5):424-430. doi: 10.1111/cdoe.12476. Epub 2019 May 30.

    Peres KG, Luzzi L, Harford J, Peres MA. Socioeconomic gradients in toothache experience among Australian adults: A time trend analysis from 1994 to 2013. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2019 Aug;47(4):324-332. doi: 10.1111/cdoe.12461. Epub 2019 May 2.

    Hariyani N, Spencer AJ, Luzzi L, Harford J, Tan H, Mejia G, Roberts-Thomson K, Do LG. The prevalence and severity of root surface caries across Australian generations. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2019 Oct;47(5):398-406. doi: 10.1111/cdoe.12459. Epub 2019 Jul 4.

    Nair R, Luzzi L, Jamieson LM, Spencer AJ, Hanna KMB, Do LG. Private dental care benefits non-Indigenous children more than Indigenous children. JDR Clin Trans Res. 2019 Oct 29:2380084419886869. doi: 10.1177/2380084419886869. [Epub ahead of print]

    Brennan DS, Chrisopoulos S, Luzzi L, Teusner DN. Dental services provided by dentists in Australia. Aust Dent J. 2020 Mar;65(1):90-95. doi: 10.1111/adj.12741. Epub 2019 Dec 23.

    Song YoungHa, Luzzi Liana, Brennan David S. Trust in dentist‐patient relationships: mapping the relevant concepts. European Journal of Oral Sciences. First published 10 March 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/eos.12686

    Song YoungHa, Luzzi Liana, Chrisopoulos S, Brennan David S. Dentist-patient relationships and oral health impact in Australian adults. Accepted 17/3/2020 in Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology.

     

     

  • Professional Associations

    • International Association for Dental Research (IADR)
      (IADR specialist interest groups: Health Services Research and Oral Health Research)

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