Our Research Units

• Commercial Determinants of Health

  The commercial determinants of health (CDoH) are the ways in which businesses influence health and equity (for better and for worse – we look largely at the latter). Our teaching and research aim to expose and challenge harmful CDoH, while equipping health and other professions with the tools, resources and knowledge to advance a world in which people and the planet are prioritised over profits.

• Equity and Mental Health

  Our group conducts research to co-design, implement and evaluate population mental health interventions with the aim of improving outcomes, prevention, early intervention, access to care, and equity in mental health. Lived-experience, stakeholder engagement, and policy advocacy inform everything we do.

• Psychedelics Research and Therapeutics

  The Psychedelic Research and Therapeutics Unit is a multidisciplinary research group investigating the potential therapeutic use of psychedelic compounds as innovative mental health treatments.

• Reproductive Justice

  The term “reproductive justice” was coined in the United States in 1994 by twelve black women “to build a politics that will change our lives and inevitably end our oppression.” (Ross, 2017). This loosely defined movement responded to the limitations of an individually focused reproductive choice approach by marrying it with the principles of social justice. In Australia, the challenge of reproductive justice is to ensure that all people have the rights to, and are practically able to, maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, have equitable access to quality assisted reproductive treatment and prenatal screening, and give birth to and parent children in a safe and healthy environment. Our team engages in collaborative research on these topics.