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Associate ProfessorMatthew Sunderland

Principal Research Fellow

Faculty of Medicine and Health

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  • Principal Research Fellow
    Faculty of Medicine and Health

RESEARCH INTERESTs

  • Psychiatric epidemiology
  • Comorbid mental and substance use disorders
  • Classification
  • Latent variable models of psychopathology
  • Applied statistical methods
  • Assessment/measurement
  • Data harmonisation

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Enduring risks, everyday stressors: Mapping the interaction of stable anddynamic factors in depression and suicidality in young people
    Society for Mental Health Research1 Jul 2025
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    PRevention of Mental Illness and Substance usE (PREMISE) Next Generation: New Targets, New Interventions
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Feb 2025
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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:
    • Sunderland M
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    Standing on the shoulders of giants: harmonising 40 years of data to revolutionise Australias response to increases in psychological distress
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2024
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    Mapping the Neurobiological Risks and Consequences of Alcohol Use in Adolescence and Across the Lifespan
    National Institutes of Health (USA)20 Sep 2023 - 30 Apr 2028
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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
    People funded by this grant:
    • McBride N,
    • Mihalopoulos C,
    • Sunderland M,
    • Teesson M,
    • Newton N
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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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    The LifeTrack Project: Population-based longitudinal cohort study to understand suicidal transitions
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Sep 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Batterham P,
    • Shand F,
    • Sunderland M,
    • Borschmann R
  • GRANT
    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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    The SuperLearner project: Fast-tracking our understanding of risk and protective factors for mental and substance use disorders
    Australian Rotary Health1 Jan 2020
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    Online alcohol prevention for older adults: adapting an effective and scalable solution
    DVC Research1 Jul 2019
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    Evaluation of Alternative Delivery Model of Good Sports
    Alcohol and Drug Foundation (ADF)1 Jan 2019
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    Climate School Project Healthy lifestyles upscale
    Paul Ramsay Foundation1 Jan 2018
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  • GRANT
    Increasing engagement with online psychosocial programs to improve mental health in the community
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Sunderland M,
    • Batterham P
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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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    A dimensional-spectrum model of mental disorders: developing new assessments to improve the diagnostic validity of multiple mental disorders (opens in a new tab)⁠
    National Health and Medical Research Council1 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Sunderland M
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    Development and population-based validation of hierarchical adaptive mental health screeners (opens in a new tab)⁠
    National Health and Medical Research Council1 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Batterham P,
    • Calear A,
    • Sunderland M,
    • Carragher N
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    Diagnosing major depression in older Australian adults: Is there evidence for age-related bias? (opens in a new tab)⁠
    National Health and Medical Research Council1 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    • Sunderland M,
    • Batterham P,
    • Carragher N
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