Lianne Parkin is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in public health and the safety of medicines.

[1] PhD titled Risk factors for venous thromboembolism at the University of Otago, supervised by Charlotte Paul and David Skegg.

[4][5] Parkin has researched the association between blood clots and flying, finding that long-distance flights did increase the risk of pulmonary embolism but that dying from the condition was still rare.

[6] She and her research group have also investigated the link between the cholesterol-lowering drugs statins and the muscle disease rhabdomyolysis,[7][8] and noted an increased risk of the kidney condition interstitial nephritis from the use of proton-pump inhibitors.

[13] In 2010, Parkin and collaborators Patricia Priest and Sheila Williams won an Ig Nobel Prize for demonstrating that, on icy footpaths in wintertime, people slip and fall less often if they wear socks on the outside of their shoes.