Dr Lauren Fortington

Dr Lauren Fortington is an injury prevention and sports safety researcher at Edith Cowan University, WA. Lauren’s research aims to support active Australians to participate safely in sport, work and everyday activity. Current research is focused on injury surveillance in professional rugby, combat sport and defence force personnel as well as management and prevention of serious injury and fatalities in community sport including spinal cord injury, concussion, and sudden cardiac arrest. She is on the Editorial Board of Science and Medicine in Football and serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport and the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

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