Cath Chapman | Research projects & activities

(She/her)

NHMRC Leadership Fellow (L1)

Faculty of Medicine and Health

National Health & Medical Research Council /MRFF funded

Health4Life Parents & Teens: a co-designed and scalable eHealth intervention to reduce modifiable cancer risk factors among socio-economically disadvantaged adolescents
Gender-informed prevention of mental and substance use problems: addressing a changing global landscape in adolescence and beyond. NHMRC L1 Investigator Grant.
The NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Prevention of Mental Health and Substance use (2025-2030; PREMISE Next Generation)
The NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Prevention and Early Intervention of Mental Health and Substance use (2019-2024; PREMISE CRE)
Healthy, wealthy and wise: The long-term effectiveness of an online universal program to prevent substance use and mental health problems among Australian youth.
Pathways to prevention: The effectiveness of universal and selective prevention in altering developmental pathways to alcohol and cannabis related harms in young adults.
Strong and Deadly Futures: A cluster randomised controlled trial of a computerised school-based alcohol and drug prevention program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.

Philanthropy Funded

Expand the OurFutures Vaping Prevention Program to address pre-teen vaping. The Bushell Foundation
Upscaling of the Climate Schools health and wellbeing courses; Paul Ramsay Foundation
The Healthy Lifestyles program: An innovative online primary and secondary prevention intervention.Paul Ramsay Foundation

Australian Government Department of Health funded

Cracks in the Ice: An online toolkit to provide evidence-based information about methamphetamine
The development, testing and launch of a culturally appropriate online toolkit to provide evidence- based information about methamphetamines for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
An online intervention and support package for families/friends supporting loved ones using methamphetamine
An online intervention and support package for families/friends supporting loved ones using alcohol/other drugs
Climate Schools Plus: An Integrated online intervention for students and parents to prevent alcohol and cannabis harms among adolescents
Positive Choices to prevent alcohol and drug-related harms among young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
Positive Choices: Future-proofing and dissemination of online evidence-based substance use prevention resources for teachers, parents and students

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Advancing our understanding of general psychopathology among young people: Optimising prevention targets and timing
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The development of mental health and substance use problems in adolescence: examining the role of early risk-taking behaviours.
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The Longitudinal Relationship Between Financial Hardship and Mental Health
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Understanding the neurobiological and psychosocial mechanisms of trauma and PTSD in women

ProfessorCath Chapman