Amanda Thijsen

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Amanda Thijsen

Senior Research Officer

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Amanda works on ways to improve the safety and experience of blood donation. She’s interested in combining insights from data, interviews, surveys, and trials to improve our management of adverse events and deferrals, like iron and fainting.

Amanda is pursuing a PhD in Public Health at the University of Sydney, examining how research evidence is translated into clinical practice. She loves working in an applied setting and being able to see the impact of research on improving donor safety.

Leadership
  • Reviewer for journals including Transfusion, Vox Sanguinis, Transfusion Medicine, and Social Science & Medicine.
  • Abstract reviewer for AABB conference submissions

Key publications

A rapid review of strategies to manage low iron levels in adults donating whole-blood: A focus on donor behaviour
Thijsen A, Gemelli CN, Hyde MK, Thorpe R, and Masser BM
2024
Transfusion Medicine
34:243
Researchers’ views on and practices of knowledge translation: an international survey of transfusion medicine researchers
Thijsen A, Masser B, Davison TE, and Williamson A
2024
Implementation Science Communications
5,9
Beyond fear: A longitudinal investigation of emotions and risk of a vasovagal reaction in first‐time whole‐blood donors
Thijsen A, Masser B, Davison TE, van Dongen A, Williams LA
2022
Transfusion
63(1):163-170
The vasovagal reaction experience among blood donors: A qualitative study of factors that affect donor return
Thijsen A, Thorpe R, Davison TE, Nguyen L, Masser B
2021
Social Science & Medicine
282:114142
Vasovagal reactions in blood donors: risks, prevention and management
Thijsen A, Masser B
2019
Transfus Med.
29 Suppl 1:13-22.