Matthew J. Spittal

Matthew is Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Centre for Mental Health. He established and leads the Mental Health Epidemiology Unit – a unit specialising in the design and analysis of studies in mental health, including randomised controlled trials, cohort studies, data linkage studies, case-control studies, sample surveys and meta-analyses.

Matthew has attracted over $35 million in research funding, including a prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowship and a Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship. He has published more than 270 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet Psychiatry, Lancet Public Health , the BMJ and the British Journal of Psychiatry. He is a member of the International Advisory Board for Lancet Psychiatry and Advisory Board member of eClinicalMedicine ( a new Lancet journal that publishes high-quality open-access research).