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Katrina Champion

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Senior Research Fellow & Sydney Horizon Fellow, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use and School of Public Health, University of Sydney

Dr Katrina Champion is a Senior Research Fellow at The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use and School of Public Health at the University of Sydney. She holds a Bachelor of Arts-Psychology(Hons)/Bachelor of Health and a PhD in Public Health and Community Medicine. She is Program Lead of Healthy Lifestyles Research at the Matilda Centre and holds a prestigious Sydney Horizon Fellowship. Dr Champion works at the nexus of disease prevention and mental health, with a focus on the bidirectional relationships between poor mental health and unhealthy lifestyle. She develops, evaluates and disseminates digital interventions to improve both physical and mental health in adolescents.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Sydney Horizon Fellow, University of Sydney
  • 2020–present
    Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney
  • 2017–2022
    NHMRC Early Career Fellow, UNSW & University of Sydney

Education

  • 2016 
    UNSW Sydney, PhD
  • 2011 
    Macquarie University, Bachelor of Arts-Psychology(Hons)/Bachelor of Health