A/Professor. Statistician and Epidemiologist at the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, University of Queensland

Joined January 2011
StatsNotebook Beta now available – FREE and OPEN SOURCE. statsnotebook.io -Graphical and notebook interface for R -DataViz -Causal inference - IPTW -Regression/ Mixed model/ GLM -Multiple imputation Feedbacks greatly appreciated! #rstat #rstats @ssaqld @StatSocAus
Thank you to International Medicine in Addiction #IMiA2025sydney for the kind invitation 🙏 I had many insightful conversations and was truly honoured to share our #NCYSUR team’s findings on the public health impacts of cannabis legalisation. 🌍💡
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Our new commentary in @NTR_Journal highlights the multichannel marketing of oral nicotine pouches. While less harmful than cigarettes, addiction risks for youth remain. @TattanBirch ✮⋆˙ doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntae188
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Tobacco buyers' price-minimising behaviours may be influenced by industry pricing tactics and may exacerbate health inequalities and dilute the effects of tobacco tax increases. Read the review by @Ara_JCho @Cwernlim @TianzeSun @GaryCKChan @CoralGartner buff.ly/4fhbABB
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our last day at #ISSDP2024 with our work looking at what type of exposure to e-cigarette ads is associated with future use ! @NCYSUR
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Giang Vu presents on how social norms and societal approval towards HTPs impacts both cigarette and HTP use at ISSDP 2024 conference @gigivu9 #ISSDP2024
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Gary Chan retweeted
#UQ research suggests a new diagnosis should be added to the official world diseases list to better identify people with gaming disorders. @UQHealth @ncysur_epi @UQPsych 📖brnw.ch/21wKJhD
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We’re in Montréal ! Come check out the poster presentations by NCYSUR PhD students @gigivu9 (#256) and @DanielleDawsonM (#211) at #CCPD24 #NIDA today 📌
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While a lot of profit stands to be made from alcohol and liquor licensing fees, Brienna Rutherford + that Gary Chung Kai Chan (@UQ_news) write that we can’t ignore the harm it poses to young people. theconversation.com/young-pe…
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Got my 2nd @NHMRC Investigator Grant. Continuing my team's 100% rate with @NHMRC No surprise - I have a great team @TianzeSun @jannileung, Dan Stjepanovic & mentors Wayne Hall, John Saunders, Jason Connor @NCYSUR 😁😁😁 @UQHealth @UQPsych @CREtobacco
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Thanks for joining us at @NCYSUR symposium on #YOUTH #addiction ! 🙏🙏🙏 Recordings to keynotes by @DavidHammondPhD @KeithNHumphreys @vale_addiction, Prof. John Saunders, Emeritus Prof. Wayne Hall, and Dr. Jill Halladay will be online soon! @UQHealth @UQPsych
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Join us TODAY to hear the latest research in youth addiciton! @UQHealth @UQPsych @APSADConf @APSAD_DAR @vale_addiction @DavidHammondPhD @CREtobacco @TianzeSun 👇👇👇👇👇
Want to hear the latest research in youth addiction? Join our hybrid @NCYSUR symposium! 🗓️1 Mar, 9-5pm AEST 👇👇👇 Free registration bit.ly/48ydslK @UQ_News @UQHealth @UQPsych @CREtobacco @APSADConf
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Want to hear the latest research in youth addiction? Join our hybrid @NCYSUR symposium! 🗓️1 Mar, 9-5pm AEST 👇👇👇 Free registration bit.ly/48ydslK @UQ_News @UQHealth @UQPsych @CREtobacco @APSADConf
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We’re launching a special issue on Young people, mental health and substance use At @advancesDD Please consider submitting & help us spread the word! emeraldgrouppublishing.com/c… Open till 31 July 2024 @GillBedi @alex_guerin13 @jannileung @GaryCKChan @TianzeSun @DrStockings – at Melbourne, Victoria
👇Call for papers! Special issue on Young people’s perspectives on mental health and substance misuse emeraldgrouppublishing.com/c… guest edited Dr Chye Toole-Anstey and Emily Deans please re-tweet and share @SArunogiri @PeterJKelly14 @lkeevers @drmimfox @AlankaarSharma @sarjomaclean
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Gary Chan retweeted
🗓️Save the date for APSAD Canberra 2024 Being held on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country Wed 30 Oct to Sat 2 Nov with the theme Inclusion... Innovation... Progress. Abstracts and scholarships open 26 Feb Super Early Bird registrations open 14 March apsadconference.com.au
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Thanks to a team of wonderful colleagues at @NCYSUR, we have another grant success! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Will work with colleagues @TheMatilda_USyd, @Griffith_Uni and @UWaterloo to prevent youth vaping using #GenerativeAI @UQHealth @UQ_News @UQPsych
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Want to hear the latest research in youth addiction? Join our hybrid @NCYSUR symposium! 🗓️1 Mar, 9-5pm AEST 👇👇👇 Free registration bit.ly/48ydslK @UQ_News @UQHealth @UQPsych @CREtobacco @APSADConf
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Greater perceived exposure to product marketing reduced tobacco danger perceptions which increased the odds of being a mostly occasional e-cigarette & cigarette user & polytobacco user. bit.ly/3HaAymt @TianzeSun @Brie_Rutherford @benjohnson235 @CoralGartner @GaryCKChan
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Another NHMRC success from my team! My PhD student @benjohnsonGT is awarded a NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship for his PhD project on the non-medical use of prescription stimulant. @NCYSUR @ncysur_epi @UQHealth @UQPsych @UQ_News
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