- Researcher, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
Dr Louise Birrell is a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow within the Matilda Centre at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the prevention of mental and substance use disorders, with a focus on using digital technologies to change the way we prevent and disseminate evidence-based prevention for youth. She has extensive experience running school-based RCTs of substance use and mental health prevention programs and developing ehealth programs. She led the co-design of two mHealth mobile apps.
Interested in youth mental health and prevention of mental and substance use problems.
Experience
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–presentResearcher in mental health and substance use prevention, University of Sydney
Education
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Macquarie University, Bachelor of Psychology (Hons)
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Macquarie University, Bachelor of Social Science
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2017The University of New South Wales, Doctor of Philosophy
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- Location: The University of Sydney
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