About
Oonagh Macken is an Academic Casual (Lecturer) in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences and the Hearing Research Centre. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and focuses on multifactorial risk factors for hearing loss, public health surveys, and epidemiological methods.
Her research interests include hearing loss mechanisms, systematic reviews, and population-based studies. Recent work emphasizes ototoxicity, preventive medicine, and cross-sectional analyses of eye/ear health linkages. She co-authored two 2024 papers: one on adult hearing loss risk factors using topic modeling and another on the Australian Eye and Ear Health Survey protocol.
Awards/Grants: None explicitly mentioned in texts.
Advising: No students listed.
Teams: Active in the Hearing Research Centre and collaborative projects with epidemiology cohorts.
