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Louise Birrell

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Researcher at The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney

Dr Louise Birrell is a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow within the Matilda Centre at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the prevention of mental and substance use disorders, with a focus on using digital technologies to change the way we prevent and disseminate evidence-based prevention for youth. She has extensive experience running school-based RCTs of substance use and mental health prevention programs and developing ehealth programs. She led the co-design of two mHealth mobile apps.

Interested in youth mental health and prevention of mental and substance use problems.

Experience

  • –present
    Researcher in mental health and substance use prevention, University of Sydney

Education

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    Macquarie University, Bachelor of Psychology (Hons)
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    Macquarie University, Bachelor of Social Science
  • 2017 
    The University of New South Wales, Doctor of Philosophy