Dr Jude Ball

Dr Jude Ball joined the Department of Public Health (University of Otago, New Zealand) in November 2014 as a senior research fellow in the ASPIRE 2025 tobacco control research group. She has a background in critical psychology, health promotion and applied research. Jude completed a PhD in 2019 exploring the drivers of long-term trends in adolescent risk behaviour, in particular smoking, cannabis use, binge drinking and sexual behaviour. Her research focuses on the impact of the changing social context on youth trends, and the inter-relationships between smoking and other risk behaviours in young people. She is a member of the Adolescent Health Research Group, the team behind the Youth 2000 series, and is a long-term active member of the Public Health Association.

Institutional webpage: https://www.otago.ac.nz/wellington/departments/publichealth/staff/otago112833.html