Past Research

Dr Nicole Reilly has worked in the field of perinatal mental health for over 15 years. She is dedicated to better understanding the impact of preventive and early intervention programs on mental health outcomes for women and families, to evaluating the value of national health reform at population-based levels, and to supporting the translation of high quality research into the best models of service delivery.

She is an author on over 30 peer-reviewed publications and two book chapters in her chosen field, and is a named investigator on projects totaling over $3 million dollars in competitive national and international research funding.

I am a psychiatric epidemiologist specialising in lifestyle approaches for the prevention of mental illness. My PhD, awarded in 2016, evaluated the mental health outcomes of a secondary school-based nutrition and physical activity intervention for adolescents

Dr Louise Birrell is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use at Sydney University. Louise has extensive experience designing and testing mental health and substance use prevention programs with adolescents. She is committed to better understanding the impact of common mental health and substance use problems at this critical life stage and passionate about designing innovative prevention strategies to enable young people to overcome mental health problems.

She has authored over 10 peer-reviewed publications, one book chapter and is a named investigator on projects totalling over $9 million dollars in competitive research funding. She regularly presents at national and international conferences in the field of youth mental health.

Dr Prior is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Prevention and Early Intervention in Mental Illness and Substance Use Centre of Research Excellence (PREMISE), at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the co-occurrence of mental health and substance use disorders. She has helped design and coordinate two clinical trials of novel interventions for these comorbid disorders; most recently an online early intervention for young people who drink to cope with anxiety.

It is Katrina’s aspiration to become a leading researcher in the development, evaluation and dissemination of innovative prevention and early intervention programs for co-occurring anxiety and alcohol use problems.