March 2024

An exploration of substance use and other contributing factors to Indigenous incarceration and identification of supports needed to reduce (re)offending – PhD Project

PhD research investigates contributing factors to Indigenous incarceration, supports needed to help reduce (re)offending, and what incarcerated First Nations Peoples themselves see as solutions.

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June 2018

Determinants of prenatal alcohol exposure among Aboriginal women in the Pilbara: Developing a statistically validated model of prenatal alcohol consumption for evidence based intervention development (PhD project)

This research aims to understand what drives decisions to consume alcohol during pregnancy among Aboriginal women.

June 2018

Opioid Agonist Treatment and Safety (OATS) Study

This project will use linked administrative data to understand risk for mortality and other adverse outcomes during and after opioid agonist treatment (OAT).

June 2018

Preventing alcohol-related harms: using comparative policy analysis to study the effects and development of local government alcohol policy

Regulating the availability of alcohol is one of the most effective ways to reduce harm from alcohol consumption, and local governments have a significant role.

May 2018

Promoting responsible drinking practices to drinkers to reduce the risk of alcohol-related harm

The World Health Organization lists alcohol as one of the three primary causes of poor health in the world.

May 2018

Alcohol's harm to others: Multinational cultural contexts and policy implications

This project will be the first to assess the types, severity, and individual and contextual correlates of harms from others’ heavy drinking in a wide range of societies with greatly varying drinking cultures and policies.

May 2018

The supply of pharmaceutical drugs for non-medical use in Australia

This is the PhD project of Ms Shann Hulme.

May 2018

Comparing apples and oranges: investigating the utility of indexes as a measure of drug policy

This is the PhD project of Vivienne Moxham-Hall (supervised by Professor Alison Ritter and Dr Caitlin Hughes) investigating the utility of indexes

March 2018

Climate Schools Plus (CSP) Study

This study will investigate the first online alcohol and substance use prevention program targeted at both students and their parents.

March 2018

Improving workplace safety and worker wellbeing by reducing AOD-related risk and harm

AOD use has a negative impact on workplaces and may result in accidents, injuries, reduced productivity, abstenteesim, poor work relationships and

March 2018

Quantifying the social and economic costs of tobacco in Australia

NDRI researchers will be collaborating with others to update the social and economic costs of smoking in Australia.

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