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Chief Investigators

Professor Coral Gartner

Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame

School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Australia

Professor Billie Bonevski

Deputy Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame

Head of Public Health at the College of Medicine and Public Health and FHMRI Director and Dean (Research), Flinders University, Australia

Professor Tony Blakely

Professorial Research Fellow, Head of Population Interventions Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Professor Richard Edwards

Professor of Public Health, Co-Director of ASPIRE Aotearoa, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

Professor Raymond Lovett

Mayi Kuwayu Study Director, National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Australia

Professor Matthew Rimmer

Professor, Intellectual Property and Innovation Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Professor Ron Borland

Professor of Psychology, School of Psychological Sciences and Honorary Professor, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia

Professor Geoffrey Fong

Professor of Psychology and Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo and Senior Investigator at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada

Professor Michael Farrell

Director of the National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre, The University of New South Wales, Australia

Chair of the Australian National Advisory Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ANACAD)

Associate Professor Natalie Walker

Program Lead-Addictions, National Institute for Health Innovation, and Director of the Centre for Addiction Research, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Associate Investigators

Professor David Thomas

Head of Wellbeing and Preventable Chronic Diseases Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Australia

Associate Professor Gary Chan

Research Fellow, National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, The University of Queensland, Australia

Dr Natalie Carvalho

Senior Research Fellow, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Dr Michelle Scollo

Senior Policy Adviser on Tobacco, Cancer Council Victoria, Australia

Associate Professor Cathy Segan

Behavioural Scientist, Quit Victoria; Honorary Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Professor Janet Hoek

Co-Director of ASPIRE Aotearoa, The University of Otago, New Zealand

Professor David Hammond

Professor and CIHR Applied Chair in Public Health, School of Public Health & Health Systems, The University of Waterloo, Canada

Adjunct Professor Amanda Baker

Adjunct Professor, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia

Associate Professor Andrew Waa

Co-Director of ASPIRE Aotearoa, Eru Pōmare Māori Health Research Centre Department of Public Health, the University of Otago, New Zealand

Professor Adrian Dunlop

Director and Addiction Medicine Senior Staff Specialist, Drug & Alcohol Clinical Services, Hunter New England Local Health District, NSW; Conjoint Professor, University of Newcastle, Australia

Professional Staff

Jo Macri

Research Program Manager, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Dr Julia Groening

Senior Administration Officer, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Alice Holland

Research Administration Officer, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Affiliates

Dr Kylie Morphett

Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Australia

Dr Cheneal Puljevic

ARC DECRA Fellow, The University of Queensland, Australia

Associate Professor Marita Hefler

Principal Research Fellow, Menzies School of Health Research, Australia

Associate Professor Raglan Maddox

Senior Fellow, National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research, Australian National University, Australia

Dr Joshua Trigg

Research Fellow, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Australia

Dr Ashleigh Guillaumier

Senior Research Fellow in Public Health, College of Medicine & Public Health, Flinders University, Australia

Associate Professor Henry Marshall

Research Fellow, Thoracic Research Centre, The University of Queensland; Thoracic Physician at The Prince Charles Hospital, Australia

Dr Dolly Baliunas

Senior Lecturer in Public Health, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Dr Driss Ait Ouakrim

Research Fellow, Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Associate Professor Sheleigh Lawler

Research Fellow, Cancer Prevention Research Centre, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Australia

Associate Professor Kathryn Steadman

Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, The University of Queensland, Australia

Dr Daniel Erku

Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Health Economics, Griffith University, Australia

Dr Tim Wilson

Research Fellow, Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Mr Michael Le Grande

Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Associate Professor Michelle Kennedy

NHMRC ECR Fellow, Thurru Indigenous Health Unit, the University of Newcastle, Australia

Professor Dan Siskind

Psychiatrist and NHRMC Emerging Lead Fellow, Princess Alexandra Hospital/ The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Dr Janni Leung

NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, The University of Queensland, Australia

Dr Emily Stockings

NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia

Dr Daniel Stjepanovic

Research Fellow, National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, The University of Queensland, Australia

Dr Janine Nip

Public Health Research Fellow, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

Dr Kristen McCarter

Lecturer, School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Australia

Dr Alys Havard

Senior Research Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre & School of Population Health, UNSW, Sydney, Australia

Dr Md Arifuzzaman Khan

Senior Epidemiologist and Allied Health Researcher, Queensland Health

Dr Christina Heris

Research Fellow, National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research, Australian National University, Australia

Dr Michael King

Lecturer, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith University, Australia

Dr Jane Rich

Research Academic, School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, Australia

Dr Jude Ball

Senior Research Fellow, University of Otago, New Zealand

Dr Heewon Kang

Visiting Academic Fellow/Scholar, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Australia and Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

Associate Professor Hua Yong

Faculty of Health, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

Professor Chris Bullen

Professor of Public Health, National Institute for Health Innovation, School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Dr Samuel Brookfield

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Australia

Professor Steve Kisely

Professor of Psychiatry, Princess Alexandra Hospital / The University of Queensland, Australia

Jenny Peek

Clinical Research Nurse and Clinical Trials Manager, Thoracic Research Centre, The University of Queensland; The Prince Charles Hospital

Dr Al Asyary

Lecturer/Deputy Head for Bachelor of Environmental Health Program, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia

Dr Carmen Lim

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland, Australia

Dr Ratika Kumar

Senior Research Fellow, School of Dentistry, The University of Queensland; Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Southern Cross University, Australia

Associate Professor Bernadette Richards

Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Professionalism, Academy for Medical Education, The University of Queensland, Australia

Dr Lavender Otieno

Research Assistant, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Australia

Dr Radha Ivory

Senior Lecturer, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland

Dr Alice Sykes

Public Health Registrar, Queensland Health, Australia

Postgraduate Students

Hollie Bendotti

PhD Student, The University of Queensland, Australia

Tianze Sun

PhD Student, The University of Queensland, Australia

Ara Cho

PhD Student, The University of Queensland, Australia

Andrew Perusco

PhD Student, Australian National University, Australia

Sally Plever

PhD Student, The University of Queensland, Australia

Tess Rooney

PhD Student, The University of Queensland, Australia

David Sellars

PhD Student, The University of Queensland, Australia

Nathan Aust

PhD Student, The University of Queensland, Australia

Sarah Perkes

Occupational Therapist and PhD Student, the University of Newcastle, Australia

Giang Vu

PhD Student, The University of Queensland, Australia

Nathan Harrison

PhD Student, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

Samantha Howe

PhD Student, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Germaine Lai

PhD Student, The University of Queensland, Australia

Ruth Canty

PhD Student, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia

Zhou Yu

PhD student, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia

Frankie Berardi

PhD Student, The University of Queensland, Australia

Isabel Meciar

PhD student and Research Assistant, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia