# Allison Milner

Allison Joy Milner (1 May 1983 Melbourne, Australia - 12 August 2019 Melbourne, Australia) was a social epidemiologist specializing in workplace mental health. Milner was Deputy Head of the Disability and Health Unit at the Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health (MSPGH) at the University of Melbourne.

## Education

* Milner attended the Brisbane Girls' Grammar School, subsequently undertook her undergraduate study at the Griffith University, Queensland, studying a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours).
* Following this, Milner achieved a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) at Griffith University within the Australian Institute of Suicide Research and Prevention Department, in the field of Globalisation and Suicide.
* Post PhD, Allison did her Masters Degree in Epidemiology at the University of Melbourne.

## Career

In 2012, Milner started her role as a postdoctoral research at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. Milner continued this role for multiple years, before her employment at Deakin University between 2015 and 2016. Milner was co-Chair of the Suicide and the Workplace Special Interest Group for the International Association for Suicide Prevention, and In 2015, Milner also become the National Academic Director at MATES in Construction. She then returned to the University of Melbourne, however as a Senior Lecturer in 2016 before her promotion in 2018, with Milner becoming an Associate Professor. As of 2017, Allison received a State Government awarded fellowship, in the pursuit of tackling high incidence of suicide amongst working men. During her career, she was a monumental figure in establishing mentorship programs for early career researchers at multiple universities including Deakin University and the University of Melbourne as well as the Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health (CRE-DH).
In 2019 at the age of 36, Milner was killed by a falling elm tree in Princes Park.
The University of Melbourne and the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences established the Allison Milner Early Career Research Fellowship to honour Milners legacy. The fellowship supports early-career researchers working in the area of public health and health equity.

## Awards

* 2014 AIPS Tall Poppy Award
* 2017 Griffith Health Outstanding Alumni Award for Outstanding Higher Degree Research Health Alumnus of the Year (Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention-AISRAP)
* 2019 Posthumous recipient of the 2019 Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship

## Publications

Milner has published over 150 papers in the areas of psychosocial behaviors, mental health and suicide
* Jennifer L Ervin; Allison Milner; Anne M Kavanagh; Tania L King (7 January 2021). "The double burden of poverty and marital loss on the mental health of older Australian women; a longitudinal regression analysis using 17 annual waves of the HILDA cohort". Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. doi:10.1007/S00127-020-02019-Z. ISSN 0933-7954. PMID 33415407. Wikidata Q104796558.
* Andrew Page; Sandro Sperandei; Matthew J Spittal; Allison Milner; Jane Pirkis (11 September 2020). "The impact of transitions from employment to retirement on suicidal behaviour among older aged Australians". Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. doi:10.1007/S00127-020-01947-0. ISSN 0933-7954. PMID 32915244. Wikidata Q99354110.
* Kylie King; Briony Dow; Louise Keogh; Peter Feldman; Allison Milner; David Pierce; Richard Chenhall; Marisa Schlichthorst (1 September 2020). ""Is Life Worth Living?": The Role of Masculinity in the Way Men Aged Over 80 Talk About Living, Dying, and Suicide". American Journal of Men's Health. 14 (5): 1557988320966540. doi:10.1177/1557988320966540. ISSN 1557-9883. PMC 7607797. PMID 33118444. Wikidata Q101055451.