Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs

Professor James Smith

Professor Smith has held senior executive roles in government and non-government contexts in urban and remote settings across the Northern Territory and is a member of the Prevention Centre’s Scientific Advisory Committee.
Dr Kylie Morphett

Dr Kylie Morphett is a member of the Collaboration for Enhanced Research Impact (CERI) Coordinating Group, representing the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame. Kylie completed her PhD in November 2016 and has since worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland School of Public Health. Prior to beginning …
Dr Driss Ait Ouakrim

Dr Driss Ait Ouakrim is a member of the Collaboration for Enhanced Research Impact (CERI) Coordinating Group representing the Centre for Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame. He is a research fellow and epidemiologist at the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne. He holds …
Dr Joshua Trigg

Dr Joshua Trigg is a member of the Collaboration for Enhanced Research Impact (CERI) Coordinating Group representing the Centre for Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame. He is a public health researcher and behavioural scientist with experience in psychological and population health research. His work focuses on health and occupational health risk factors, risk …
Dr Cheneal Puljević

Dr Cheneal Puljević is a member of our Communications Community of Practice. She is the Research Operations Manager for the Centre for Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame, and an ARC DECRA Fellow focusing on the drivers and deterrents of illicit tobacco. Her research to date has focused on smoking cessation among disadvantaged populations, …
Tegan Nuss

Ms Tegan Nuss is a Senior Research Officer at the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer at Cancer Council Victoria. She has experience working with population surveys and observational studies and evaluating social marketing campaigns aimed at preventing non-communicable diseases, including in the areas of diet and healthy weight, sun protection, and more recently, tobacco …
Claudia Gascoyne

Ms Claudia Gascoyne is a Senior Research Officer at the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer at Cancer Council Victoria. Her recent research has focused on understanding the barriers to and facilitators of smoking cessation. She also has experience conducting quantitative research to identify the drivers behind dietary behaviours, as well as experience evaluating mass …
Professor Sarah Durkin

Professor Durkin is Acting Director of the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer at Cancer Council Victoria, and an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at University of Melbourne. Over two decades, Sarah has established a research program which has been instrumental in shaping tobacco control and other cancer prevention campaigns …
Dr Ashleigh Haynes

Dr Ashleigh Haynes is the David Hill Research Fellow at the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer at Cancer Council Victoria and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at University of Melbourne. Using a range of methods including observational studies, content analysis, population surveys, and experiments, her research has investigated …
Professor Coral Gartner

Professor Coral Gartner is the Director of the Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame, one of the CREs that contributes to the Collaboration for Enhanced Research Impact. She is an international expert in tobacco control policy based at the School of Public Health, The University of Queensland. She is the country lead Investigator for …