Recent grants; Youth Group

(2012/14); Australian Research Council Linkage; “Addressing risk factors of overweight and obesity among adolescents in out-of-home care: The Healthy Eating and Active Living (HEAL) study”. Helen Skouteris; Marita P McCabe; Matthew D Fuller-Tyszkiewicz.

(2011/12);  Australian Research Council Linkage; “Deakin Family Options: engaging youth with high prevalence mental health problems using family based interventions.” A Lewis, JW Toumbourou, Dan Lubman.

2011/12; NHMRC Project Grant; “Investigating the relationships between cannabis and other drug use, mental health, early-life factors and life-course outcomes: integrative analyses of data from four Australasian cohort studies.” Richard Mattick (University of New South Wales), David Fergusson (University of Otago, Christchurch), Mohammad Hayatbakhsh (University of Queensland), John Horwood (University of Otago, Christchurch), George Patton (University of Melbourne), Professor John W Toumbourou, Louisa Degenhardt, Delyse Hutchinson and Dr Wendy Swift (University of New South Wales)

2010/14; Australian Research Council Linkage; “Strengthening community partnerships to promote adolescent school engagement and prevent problems such as alcohol misuse and violence.” John Toumbourou, George Patton, Sheryl Hemphill (Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute), Evie Leslie and Peter Kremer

(2010/2011); Alcoholism (National Institutes of Health), United States; “Environment-person Influences on the Development of Early Alcohol Use and Misuse”. Richard Catalano, Todd Herrenkohl, Michael Arthur, John W. Toumbourou, George Patton, Sheryl Hemphill, Lyndal Bond, Tracy Evans-Whipp, Dr Lyndal Thomas.