Dr Richard Bade from UQ’s Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences spoke to The Guardian about research which detected new psychoactive drugs in Australian wastewater.
Associate Professor Abdullah Mamun from the UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health has received a combined $2.6 million in research funding from the NHMRC and the Research Council of Norway, through the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases.
Professor James Ward, Director of UQ's Poche Centre for Indigenous Health outlined wide-ranging benefits that would flow from decolonising harm reduction at the Harm Reduction International conference.
Selling nicotine vaping products in licenced shops with a strict age verification process will restrict youth access and help adult smokers quit, a University of Queensland drug expert has recommended.
Professor John Cairney from UQ’s School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences featured in a Health and Wellbeing Queensland article about the launch of the new centre.