Session 4C - ALCOHOL
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| Tuesday, November 14, 2023 |
| 4:05 PM - 5:35 PM |
| Riverbank 7 |
Speaker
Ms Michala Kowalski
Phd Candidate
Drug Policy Modelling Program, Sprc, Unsw Sydney
Reconstituting the set and setting of the urban pub after a lockdown
3:55 PM - 4:10 PMBiography
Michala Kowalski is a Scientia PhD candidate at UNSW Sydney’s Social Policy Research Centre.
Michala joined the Drug Policy Modelling Program as a research officer in 2017 and is a member of
the Global Cannabis Cultivation Research Consortium. Research interests include drug and alcohol
policy, technological innovations, and harm reduction.
Ms Rachel Visontay
Phd Candidate
The University Of Sydney
Alcohol consumption and risk for type 2 diabetes: Enhancing causal inference with a Mendelian Randomisation approach
4:10 PM - 4:25 PMBiography
Rachel Visontay is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use at the University of Sydney. Her research aims to provide a greater understanding of alcohol–long-term health relationships by using a range of sophisticated methods that promote causal inference from observational data.
Ms Georgina Lau
PhD Candidate
Monash University
One-year health outcomes of survivors after alcohol-related major trauma
4:25 PM - 4:40 PMBiography
Georgina Lau is a Westpac Future Leader Scholar and PhD candidate at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. Her PhD research focuses on measuring and preventing alcohol and other drug-related injury events.
Dr Cassandra Wright
Senior Research Fellow
Menzies
Key priorities for alcohol harm reduction in the Northern Territory: findings from a forum of health, social welfare, policy and justice professionals
4:40 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Dr Cassandra Wright is Senior Research Fellow and program lead of Alcohol and other Drugs at Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin.
Mr Filip Djordjevic
Phd Candidate
La Trobe University
Community Engagement in the Alcohol Licensing Processes of Two UK Cities: A Comparative Case Study
4:45 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
Filip is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, where he is researching how communities engage in alcohol licensing processes in Australia and the UK. He is also a research assistant at the Burnet Institute, where he researches injecting drug use.
Dr Anne-Marie Laslett
NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow
La Trobe University
Alcohol’s harm to others in 2021 and 2008: do correlates of harm change and do differences in survey and secondary data sets align?
5:00 PM - 5:15 PMBiography
Anne-Marie Laslett is Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at La Trobe University. She directs the Range and Magnitude of Alcohol’s Harm to Others project at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research. For twenty years she's undertaken alcohol and other drug research, focusing on alcohol’s harms to children and families.
Miss Tianhui Ke
Research Assistant
Burnet Institute
A longitudinal study of the changes in alcohol consumption and its predictors among adults in Victoria during the COVID-19 pandemic
5:15 PM - 5:20 PMBiography
Tianhui Ke is an early career research assistant at the Burnet Institute, working on the data analysis of COVID-19 related studies.
Dr Siobhan O'Dean
Postdoctoral Research Associate
The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, The University of Sydney
The association between initial symptoms of alcohol use disorder and progression to diagnosis: findings from a prospective cohort study
5:20 PM - 5:35 PMBiography
Dr Siobhan O'Dean is a postdoctoral researcher at The Matilda Centre, University of Sydney. She works across a range of projects including investigating the development of alcohol use disorders in young adults, and in statistical evaluation of multiple large scale school-based substance use prevention programs.
Chairperson
Jacqueline Bowden
Director
National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction
