Associate ProfessorMatthew Sunderland

Dr Sunderland is an Associate Professor, Deupty Director of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Program Lead in Measurement and Methodology at the Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney. Dr Sunderland has focused his program of research on the application of sophisticated psychometric techniques to examine salient issues with the existing psychiatric classifications and measurement. This work has included some of the first studies to investigate the role of broad dimensional constructs of psychopathology and their relationship with clinically relevant factors, such as impairment, distress, suicidality, traumatic events, and treatment seeking. His research also seeks to develop instruments that efficiently assess mental and substance use disorders in a more valid and empirically grounded framework as well as tools for sophisticated data harmonisation methods. He has a strong research profile in the field of psychiatric epidemiology and has published extensively on comorbidity between mental and substance use disorders as well as examining trajectories of change in large-scale population-based samples. Dr Sunderland has authored over 190 peer-reviewed scientific publications and reports and has successfully obtained over $23 million in research funds as CI or AI.