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Associate ProfessorJo-An Occhipinti

NHMRC Leadership Fellow

Faculty of Medicine and Health

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  • NHMRC Leadership Fellow
    Faculty of Medicine and Health

Research projects & supervision summary

Selected grants:
  • 2025 - NHMRC Investigator Grant - Generation Mental Wealth: A new paradigm for fostering youth mental health (2026-2030) - $2,818,905 - Principal Investigator
  • 2023 - MRFF Million Minds Grant - Right here, right now. What are the social determinants and protective factors for mental illness, suicide ideation and self-harm in young Australians and what are the best bets for prevention - $941, 626 (CIs: Jo Robinson, Louise La Sala, Jo-An Occhipinti, Alison Calear, Michelle Torok, Caroline Gao, Kate Filia, Olivia Kirtley, Katherine McGill, Ian Hickie, Jane Pirkis)
  • 2022 - NHMRC Partnership Grant - Can an aftercare service reduce suicide risk in young people? An effectiveness-implementation evaluation- $2,451,638(CIs: Jo Robinson, Katrina Witt, Dzenana Kartal, Patrick McGorry, Jo-An Occhipinti, Catherine Mihalopoulos, Jane Pirkis, Andrew Chanen, Adam Skinner, Isabel Zbukvic)
  • 2020 - BHP Foundation Philanthropic Research Grant - 'Right care, first time, where you live': a next generation approach to deliver nationally co-ordinated and regionally-implemented mental health care systems for young Australians - $12,835,968 (CIs: Ian Hickie, Jo-An Occhipinti, Yun Ju Christine Song).
  • 2020 - MRFF Applied Artificial Intelligence Research in Health, Australian Government Department of Health - Explainable machine learning to improve youth mental health care- $3,107,627 (CIs: Frank Iorfino, Ian Hickie, Sally Cripps, Jo-An Atkinson, Ante Prodan, Adam Skinner, Nick Ho, Tracey Davenport, Roman Marchant).
  • 2019 - Fondation Botnar Grant -Delivering an integrated decision analysis, monitoring & evaluation infrastructure to support more effective and responsive child and youth mental health systems in Bogota, Colombia-CHF 1,404,564 (CIs: Jo-An Occhipinti (née Atkinson), Ian Hickie, Adam Skinner, Paulo Goncalves, Nate Osgood, Ante Prodan, Laura Ospina-Pinillos, Salvador Camacho, Florence Secula, Sandro Sperandei).
  • 2019 - NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence for reducing suicidal thoughts and behaviours in young people presenting for health care - $2,495,765.50 (CIs: Ian Hickie, Patrick McGorry, Jo Robinson, Andrew Chanen, Andrew Page, Jo-An Occhipinti (née Atkinson), Elizabeth Scott, Simon Judkins, Niels Buus)
  • 2019 -National Suicide Prevention Research Fund Grant -The relationship between social media and suicide clusters - $640,660 -(CIs: Jane Pirkis, Jo Robinson, Madelyn Gould, Andrew Page, Jo-An Occhipinti (née Atkinson), Matthew Spittal, Lay San Too, Karina Witt, Mark Sinyor, Benedikt Till, Ante Prodan, Nathaniel Osgood).
  • 2018 - Building a compelling case for prevention - Phase II - $750,000 Commissioned by the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre (CIs: Jo-An Occhipinti (née Atkinson), Danielle Currie, Jacqui Davison, Paul Crossland,Jaithri Ananthapavan,Steven Begg).
  • 2018 - Dynamic simulation modelling to support strategic planning for suicide prevention - $278,809 (CIs: Jo-An Occhipinti (née Atkinson), Adam Skinner, Ian Hickie, Frank Iorfino, Tracey Davenport, Kenny Lawson).
  • 2018 - MRFF: Harnessing big data and dynamic simulation modelling to tackle child and adolescent overweight and obesity and associated unsustainable healthcare expenditure in Australia - $905,000 - Medical Research Futures Fund, Commonwealth Department of Health(CIs: Andrew Wilson, Jo-An Occhipinti (née Atkinson), Louise Baur; CIs: Louise Freebairn, Geoff McDonnell, Alison Hayes, Ante Prodan, Nate Osgood).
  • 2017 - Developmental evaluation of the place-based suicide prevention trials - $440,000 - Victorian Department of Health and Human Services (CIs: Anne Redman, Graham Meadows, Jane Pirkis, Andrew Page, Sallie Newel, Jo Robinson, Jo-An Occhipinti (née Atkinson), Anna Williamson, Peter Fernando, Sonia Wutzke, Frances Shawyer, Vrinda Edan, Joanne Enticott).
  • 2017 - Evaluation of National Suicide Prevention Trial - $1,995,300 - Commonwealth Department of Health. (CIs: Jane Pirkis,Jo-An Occhipinti (née Atkinson), Bridget Bassilios, Philip Burgess, Greg Carter, Adele Cox, Dianne Currier, Annette Erlangsen, Jane Gunn, Meredith Harris, Kairi Kõlves, Kylie King, Karolina Krysinska, Andrew Page, Andrea Phelps, Jo Robinson, Marisa Schlichthorst, Matthew Spittal).

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • PROJECT
    The icare Labour Market Scenarios (TiLMS): implications for workers compensation in NSW 2025 – 2045
    Insurance and Care NSW2025 - 2026
    Project leaders:
    Collaborators:
    The icare Labour Market Scenarios (TiLMS): implications for workers compensation in NSW 2025 – 2045.icare - $250K (CIs: John Buchanan, Jo Occhipinti, Hossein Hosseini, Troy Henderson)
  • PROJECT
    Right care, first time, where you live
    BHP Foundation2020 - 2026
    Project leaders:
    Collaborators:
    ‘Right care, first time, where you live’: a next generation approach to deliver nationally co-ordinated and regionally-implemented mental health care systems for young Australians.BHP Foundation Philanthropic Research Grant - $12.8M (CIs: Ian Hickie, Jo-An Occhipinti, Yun (Christine) Song).
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  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Exploring diverse stakeholder voices to bend the curve of mental ill-health in young people: A Participatory Action Research and Empowerment Evaluation Study
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    System Dynamics Modelling for Public Health: An Application in Childhood Obesity
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The economics of targeting systemic drivers of mental health using dynamic simulation modelling