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| Dr Jagdish Dua
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| Dr Matthew Dunn
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
Emerging research is investigating the use of licit (legal) performance enhancing supplements amongst exercising populations and athletes. Work is being undertaken to explore this amongst a range of groups, including secondary and tertiary education athletes and exercising populations.
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| Dr Peter Higgs
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical ResearchStatement of Interests:
Peter has a background in community development (BSW, UNSW 1988) and has worked with marginalised populations in Melbourne, Sydney, Vietnam, Indonesia and China. Peter completed his PhD with the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University after an MA in Asian and International Studies at Victoria University (2000) where he studied the footpath economy of street traders in Hanoi. Between 1996 and 2007 he was employed at the Burnet Institute where his field based research was been focussed on risk and ethnic Vietnamese heroin users. He is currently a NHMRC Post-doctoral fellow where his qualitative research will be focussed on understanding the protective factors (behavioural, structural and environmental) for hepatitis C transmission among a cohort of long term injectors in Melbourne.
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| Dr John Howard
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre - National Cannabis Prevention and Information CentreStatement of Interests:
John is a Senior Lecturer, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW and consults to WHO, UNICEF and UNESCAP. This has included work in India, the Philippines, South Africa, Egypt, Lao PDR, Viet Nam, China and Thailand on street youth/children, health of male adolescents and capacity-building for the community treatment of young drug users. His major clinical, teaching and research areas are: adolescent substance use and ‘street youth’ (in both developed and developing countries), comorbidity, depression and suicide in young people, working with marginalised youth, adolescent psychotherapy, same-sex attracted youth, HIV infection in adolescents, resilience, and treatment capacity building.
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| Dr Caitlin Hughes
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
Past research provided in-depth studies into the process of drug policy reform in Portugal and Australia and the applicability of public policy models of change. Current research is concerned with enhancing the capacity for effective drug policy in Australia through increasing understanding of current approaches, "what works" and modelling the likely effects of interventions.
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| Professor Lisa Maher
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical ResearchStatement of Interests:
I conduct ethnographic, epidemiological and clinical research on drug use and related harms and studies of behavioural and biomedical prevention interventions designed to prevent infectious diseases in vulnerable populations, with a focus on injecting drug users and female sex workers.
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| Ms Elizabeth Maloney
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
Elizabeth's research interests include suicide and self-harm behaviours; comorbidity of mental health and substance use problems; young people and the juvenile justice system; and pregnancy and child development.
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| Ms Kristy Martire
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
The relationship between licit and illicit drug use and crime is generally understood only at a superficial level. Collaborative work with researchers from Justice Health and the NSW Attorney Generals department is concerned with the intersection of drugs and crime as well as the impact of psychological, legislative and economic factors on offender desistance, community reintegration and drug/alcohol rehabilitation.
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| Dr Mark Montebello
School of PsychiatryStatement of Interests:
Mark Montebello is a Staff Specialist in Psychiatry at The Langton Centre and is in private practice at The Sydney Clinic. He is also a Conjoint Lecturer at the University of New South Wales in the School of Psychiatry and the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. His clinical and research interests include: cannabis dependency; illicit psychostimulants; and comorbidity between substance use and mental health problems.
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| Ms Sally Nathan
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Sally's career has been focused on giving voice to consumers and the community, in particular those who have been historically excluded from participation and decision-making in societal organisations and structures, including complex health systems. Sally is a social scientist who uses qualitative and quantitative methods in her research within a participatory framework where research participants are actively involved in the research process. Sally has theorised and empiricised consumer/community exclusion and participation in a number of areas, including health service decision-making and governance (the topic of her PhD due for completion in 2010), advocacy by the non-government sector, capacity building for health development, adolescent drug and alcohol treatment and refugee settlement. She has published papers relating to consumer and community participation, the use of evidence in policy-making, the advocacy role of the non-government sector and the workings of the health system, in peer-reviewed journals and consumer focused publications. Sally is first Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Linkage funded three-year grant: Social Cohesion through Football (2009-2011), a cohort impact study investigating the implementation of a sport for social development program over three years. Previous research student supervision: PhD: The role of peer educators in promoting quality use of medicines among seniors, 2008. ILPs: 1) Finding structure and fitting in: The experience of drug-dependent adolescents in a residential life management program, 2006. 2)An ethonographic study of Football in the Park: An initiative for refugee youth in the Western Suburbs 2008 - Community Development through Sport: Lessons from Football United’s ‘Football in the Park’, 2008 3) Developing a pilot outreach program for the disadvantaged population in Redfern/Waterloo: Scoping study for a student-assisted health clinic, 2009
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| Ms Nicola Newton
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
I am interested in developing effective prevention and treatment interventions to reduce substance use and related harms in adolescents. I have a specific focus on using innovative methods such as the internet to deliver health education.
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| Dr Melissa Norberg
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
Dr Melissa Norberg's research interests focus on investigating the mechanisms underlying the development, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety and substance use disorders from a behavioural perspective. Furthermore, she is interested in studying factors that diminish a person’s quality of life. Identifying such factors will facilitate Dr Norberg's long-term goals of developing treatment interventions that improve both symptoms and quality of life.
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| Dr Ju-Lee Oei
School of Women's and Children's HealthStatement of Interests:
Clinical and epidemiological research regarding neonatal outcomes especially for: 1. the use of oxygen in neonatal research 2. the effects of maternal drugs of dependency on the neonate.
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| Dr Andrew Pethebridge
School of PsychiatryStatement of Interests:
Within Psychiatry I am interested in the interactions between mental illness and substance use, policies relating to impaired doctors and psychiatric illness in the treatment of Hepatitis C infection. I am significantly involved in registrar teaching.
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| Professor Caroline Rae
Prince of Wales Medical Research InstituteStatement of Interests:
I use interdisciplinary approaches to understand how the biochemistry of the brain underlies brain function, and vice versa. A range of (mostly) collaborative projects crosses basic and more applied research, centred around the use of magnetic resonance technology both in vivo and in vitro.
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| Associate Professor Nicolas Rasmussen
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
I study the history and sociology of drug development, and of both medical and nonmedical drug use (with a special interest in stimulants). Also ethical and policy matters related to the pharmaceutical industry's role in clinical research. Also history of biomedical sciences including endocrinology, cell and molecular biology, pharmacology, psychopharmacology.
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| ![Show details for [<FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"><b>]Associate Professor Anthony Shakeshaft[</b><br>    <i>Nationa](/icons/expand.gif) Associate Professor Anthony Shakeshaft
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
Principal research interests are in evidence-based medicine, community-wide interventions, use of computers in health settings, especially general practice, and the evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions in reducing alcohol and other drug abuse. Previous work has involved the use of patient driven computers for anxiety and depression in Primary Care, in both the U.K. and Canada. Currently, his major project is aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of a community-wide intervention strategy to reduce alcohol-related harm in rural communities in NSW, funded by the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation.
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| Dr Tim Slade
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
In the field of psychiatry the classification of psychiatric disorders, particularly the broad question regarding the categorical versus dimensional status of psychiatric disorders, is of interest. Novel and innovative statistical methods for examining the continuity of psychopathology are being used. Research interests also centre around the use of community (epidemiological) and clinical data to inform unresolved issues in the classification of psychiatric disorders.
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| Dr Catherine Spooner
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
Collaborative social research in the Asia Pacific region relating to HIV. Particular interest in social determinants of health, injecting drug use and youth.
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| Dr Wendy Swift
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
Current research interests and projects include patterns and consequences of cannabis use and dependence, cannabis potency and the Australian cannabis market and the development of interventions to prevent or treat cannabis related problems. Additional interest is substance use among women and older Australians, including polypharmacy, and public health approaches to substance use use.
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| Dr Stephanie Taplin
National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreStatement of Interests:
Dr Stephanie Taplin's research interests are currently centred around her research on child protection and parental substance misuse. She has broader interests in prevention and early intervention, with a background in illicit drug research, criminology and public health.
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| Dr Lorraine Yap
School of Public Health and Community MedicineStatement of Interests:
• Applied social research relevant to reproductive health, STIs, and HIV/AIDS interventions, particularly among drug users, commercial sex workers, prisoners, indigenous populations. • Appraisal, design, monitoring and evaluation of health and population projects/programs, with special reference to sexual health, including HIV/AIDS. • Experience in needle and condom social marketing, and peer and health education and promotion in developing countries. • Participatory approaches to monitoring of performance and impact, and project evaluation.
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