DrLauren Gardner

Dr Lauren Gardner is a Senior Research Fellow and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow within the Matilda Centre at the University of Sydney. As Program Lead of School-Based Health Interventions, Lauren has expertise in the development, evaluation, and translation of digital preventive interventions to enhance adolescent health and wellbeing. Most recently, this includes leading the development of the OurFutures Vaping program, and its evaluation in the world's largest randomised controlled trial of a school-based digital intervention to prevent vaping (40 schools, >5,000 students). Lauren also leads implementation research to drive large scale dissemination of the OurFutures health and wellbeing programs into schools both nationally and internationally.