Katrina Champion

(she/her)
  • Associate Professor & Sydney Horizon Fellow, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use and School of Public Health, University of Sydney

Dr Katrina Champion is an Associate Professor at The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use and School of Public Health at the University of Sydney. She holds a Bachelor of Arts-Psychology(Hons)/Bachelor of Health and a PhD in Public Health and Community Medicine. She is Program Lead of Adolescent Risk Behaviours and Mental Health Research at the Matilda Centre and holds a prestigious Sydney Horizon Fellowship. Dr Champion works at the nexus of disease prevention and mental health, with a focus on the bidirectional relationships between poor mental health and unhealthy lifestyle. She develops, evaluates and disseminates digital interventions to improve both physical and mental health in adolescents.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Sydney Horizon Fellow, University of Sydney
  • 2026–present
    Associate Professor, University of Sydney
  • 2020–2025
    Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney
  • 2017–2022
    NHMRC Early Career Fellow, UNSW & University of Sydney

Education

  • 2016 
    UNSW Sydney, PhD
  • 2011 
    Macquarie University, Bachelor of Arts-Psychology(Hons)/Bachelor of Health

Contact Katrina for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision