Rate My Professor Eeva-Katri Kumpula

Dr. Eeva-Katri Kumpula is a Research Fellow at the National Poisons Centre, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Health Sciences Division, University of Otago. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy at the School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, with a thesis titled "Data Collected about Intentional Self-poisoning in New Zealand National Poisons Centre calls." Earlier in her career, she served as a Lecturer in the Division of Social Pharmacy at the University of Helsinki from March 2007 to March 2009. She also held affiliations with the Division of Social Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, where she earned MSc(Pharm) and MSc degrees.

Kumpula's research focuses on pharmacoepidemiology and toxicoepidemiology, including medication safety, self-harm, drug safety, and community pharmacy. Her work analyzes National Poisons Centre data to examine therapeutic drug exposures, household paracetamol stocks, naloxone use in emergency medical services, and pandemic-related enquiry patterns. Key publications are "A retrospective analysis of therapeutic drug exposures in New Zealand National Poisons Centre data 2018–2020" (Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2023), "Stocks of paracetamol products stored in urban New Zealand households: A cross-sectional study" (PLOS ONE, 2020), "Naloxone use by Aotearoa New Zealand emergency medical services, 2017-2021" (Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2023), "Enquiries to the New Zealand National Poisons Centre in response to the COVID-19 pandemic" (Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2021), "Specialist medical toxicologist consultations provided by the New Zealand National Poisons Centre, 2018-2020" (New Zealand Medical Journal, 2023), and "Paracetamol-associated knowledge, attitudes and practices of the New Zealand public: an online survey" (Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 2025). Previously a Postdoctoral Fellow, she led studies on paracetamol stockpiling during COVID-19 lockdowns. Her research has received over 200 citations.