Following the enormous success in 2017 of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Falling Down: Problematic Substance Use in Later Life, NCETA and its partners, Middlesex University (UK) and Matua Raki (NZ) are running the course again in 2018.
NCETA’s Professor Ann Roche and Roger Nicholas, along with other key stakeholders were invited to attend a full day meeting on 1 June 2018 convened by the Australian Government Department of Health’s Health Products Regulation Group.
Building on NCETA’s work exploring AOD use in rural and remote communities in Australia, Professor Ann Roche was invited to present a paper at the 2108 Australian and New Zealand Addiction Conference on Monday 28 May.
A world first eHealth program launched at UNSW Sydney, and led by Professor Maree Teesson AC, aims to help thousands of young Australian high school children reduce their chance of developing chronic diseases, including heart disease and mental health disorders, by preventing and modifying lifestyle risk behaviours that commonly emerge in adolescence.
A new collaboration between the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) and the Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP) will create exciting opportunities for inter-faculty partnerships between the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW Sydney.
Researchers from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at UNSW Sydney are reaching out to young people who participated in a landmark 2012 trial to assess the long-term impact of school-based drug and alcohol prevention programs.
As part of the Australian Indigenous AOD Knowledge Centre’s ongoing webinar series, NCETA’s Associate Professor Ken Pidd will present a webinar on drug testing on 9 May 2018.
