Associate ProfessorKatrina Champion

Sydney Horizon Fellow (Associate Professor) Sydney School of Public Health

Faculty of Medicine and Health

  • Sydney Horizon Fellow (Associate Professor) Sydney School of Public Health
    Faculty of Medicine and Health

RESEARCH INTERESTs

  • Digital interventions to improve the physical and mental health of Australians
  • Relation ship between health risk behaviours and mental health
  • Preventing risk behaviours in young people (including substance use, smoking/vaping, poor diet, physical inactivity, sleep and screen time)
  • Clustering of risk behaviours and multiple health behaviour change
  • Development of eHealth interventions
  • Substance use prevention and drug education

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    No more victims: Building healthy relationships and preventing intimate partner and sexual violence through a novel, scalable school-based intervention
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)1 Apr 2025 - 31 Mar 2027
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    Near-miss MCR Funding
    Faculty of Medicine and Health1 Jan 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Champion K
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    FMH Start-up Scheme
    Faculty of Medicine and Health1 Jan 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Champion K
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    Health4Life Parents & Teens: a co-designed and scalable eHealth intervention to reduce modifiable cancer risk factors among socio-economically disadvantaged adolescents
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2027
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    Rewarding Research 2024
    Faculty of Medicine and Health1 Jan 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Champion K
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    A cluster randomised controlled trial of a novel and scalable eHealth intervention to prevent e-cigarette use among adolescents: The OurFutures Vaping Program
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jul 2023 - 31 Dec 2028
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    A new scalable eHealth approach to prevent e-cigarette use among adolescents: The OurFutures Vaping program
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2026
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    Adolescent-led transformation of preventive and public health research using citizen science
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2026
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    Enhancing engagement with eHealth approaches to prevent cardiovascular disease among adolescents: The Triple E Project
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)1 Jun 2022 - 30 Jun 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Rickwood D,
    • Teesson M,
    • Kay-Lambkin F,
    • Spring B,
    • Newton N
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    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
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2019
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    Climate School Project Healthy lifestyles upscale
    Paul Ramsay Foundation1 Jan 2018
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    Cracks in the Ice Community Toolkit: Phase 3
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)1 Jan 2018
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    Positive Choices - An Integrated online intervention for students and parents to prevent alcohol and cannabis harms among adolescents. Phase 3: Evaluation
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)1 Jan 2018
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    Positive Choices - Positive Choices to prevent alcohol and drug-related harms among young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders: User testing and expansion
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)1 Jan 2018
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    A multiple health behaviour approach to prevent common and emerging risk factors for chronic disease: development and evaluation of a novel online intervention for Australian adolescents
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jun 2017 - 31 Dec 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Champion K
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    Cracks in the ice - Development of resources to prevent methamphetamine ice related harms in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population Phase 2
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)1 Jan 2017
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    Healthy Lifestyles An innovative implementation model for online interventions to prevent common and emerging risk factors for chronic disease in young Australians
    Paul Ramsay Foundation1 Jan 2017
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    Pathways to prevention: The effectiveness of universal and selective prevention in altering developmental pathways to alcohol and cannabis related harms in young adults
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2019
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    Positive Choices - to prevent alcohol and drug-related harms among young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders: Development and Implementation
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)1 Jan 2017
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    Positive Choices: An integrated online intervention for students and parents to prevent alcohol and cannabis harms among adolescents (Climate Schools Plus)
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)1 Jul 2016
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    Cracks in the Ice - community toolkit: Phase 2
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)1 Jan 2016
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