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Session 3D - Substance Use Epidemiology

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Track 4
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
11:25 AM - 12:35 PM
Waterfront 3

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In-Person only Session


Speaker

Dr Thomas Norman
Research Fellow
La Trobe University

People living with HIV who inject or have injected non-prescription drugs: evidence of substantial differences in health inequalities and experiences of clinical care

11:25 AM - 11:37 AM

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Thomas Norman is a Postdoctoral Researcher at La Trobe University's Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS), specialising in public health. He is currently working alongside community partners on the HIV Futures project — a longstanding study investigating health and wellbeing among people living with HIV across Australia.
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Mr Jared Brown
Manager, Toxicity Response, Epidemiology & Surveillance
NSW Ministry Of Health - Centre For Alcohol And Other Drugs

Poisonings from hydrocarbon inhalant misuse in Australia

11:37 AM - 11:41 AM

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Senior Poisons Specialist in Toxicovigilance at NSW Poisons Information Centre
Dr Rebecca Jenkinson
Senior Research Fellow
Australian Gambling Research Centre, Australian Institute of Family Studies

/''Intersections between gambling participation, alcohol and illicit substance use, mental ill-health and other harms among Australian males

11:41 AM - 11:53 AM

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Dr Rebecca Jenkinson is a Senior Research Fellow (Gambling, Alcohol and other Drugs) and Executive Manager of the Australian Gambling Research Centre. Rebecca also holds an Honorary Burnet Institute Fellow position and an Adjunct Lecturer position in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University.
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Ms Wing See Yuen
PhD Candidate
National Drug And Alcohol Research Centre

Age, period, and cohort effects on alcohol-related risky behaviours in Australia from 2001 to 2016

11:53 AM - 12:05 PM

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Wing is a Research Fellow at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, where she started as a Research Assistant in 2017. She recently completed her PhD, which examined trajectories of alcohol-related harm among young people.
Ms Therese Ryan
Senior Epidemiologist
NSW Ministry Of Health

Surveillance of kava-related emergency department presentations in NSW

12:05 PM - 12:09 PM

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Therese works in the Rapid Surveillance team, in the Centre of Epidemiology and Evidence at NSW Ministry of Health. Therese leads the drug and alcohol surveillance using emergency department program of work.
Dr Cheneal Puljevic
Senior Research Fellow
NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame, The University Of Queensland

From the Jungle to The Street: Country-level variation and demographic correlates of cocaine prices

12:09 PM - 12:21 PM

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Dr Cheneal Puljevic is the Research Operations Manager for the Centre for Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Services Research at The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on reducing harms related to substance use, primarily tobacco.
Dr Alice McEntee
Research Fellow
National Centre For Education And Training On Addiction (nceta)

Australian’s Alcohol Use is Decreasing but has Alcohol-related Absenteeism?

12:21 PM - 12:25 PM

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Alice is a Research Fellow at NCETA and has over 10 years’ experience in designing, conducting and evaluating research projects. Whilst at NCETA, Alice has been involved in various local, national and international research projects exploring alcohol and drug use, public health and workforce development issues.

Chair

Janni Leung
Research Fellow
National Centre For Youth Substance Use Research

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