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Dr Tanya Caldwell BA (Melb), MPopHlth, PhD (ANU) Current Position: Research Fellow Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia Phone: +61 2 6125 7839 Fax: +61 2 6125 0740

Research Interests

• The co-occurrence of substance use and mental health problems
• Non-linear associations linking mental health (eg depression) and wellbeing with other measures (eg alcohol consumption)
• Ageing and mental health from a life course perspective
• Mental health literacy and service use
• Longitudinal research methods in epidemiology

Selected Recent Publications

Stansfeld SA, Clark C, Caldwell TM, Rodgers B, Power C (in press). Psychosocial work characteristics and anxiety and depressive disorders in mid-life: The effects of prior psychological distress. Occupational and Environmental Medicine (accepted January 2008). IF - 2.255.

Caldwell TM, Rodgers B, Clark C, Jefferis BJMH, Stansfeld SA, Power C. Lifecourse socioeconomic predictors of midlife drinking patterns, problems and abstention: Findings from the 1958 British Birth Cohort Study. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2008; 95, 269-278. IF – 3.213.

Stansfeld SA, Clark C, Rodgers B, Caldwell TM, Power C. Childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position and depressive and anxiety disorders in midlife. British Journal of Psychiatry. 2008; 192, 152-153. IF – 5.436.

Clark C, Rodgers B, Caldwell TM, Power C, Stansfeld SA. Childhood and adulthood psychological ill health as predictors of midlife affective and anxiety disorders: The 1958 British Birth Cohort. Archives of General Psychiatry. 2007; 64: 668-678. IF – 13.936.

Rodgers B , Windsor TD, Caldwell TM, Power C. Misclassification bias and moderate drinking. Addiction Research and Theory. 2007; 15, 29-33; CITATIONS – 1. IF – 0.929.

Caldwell TM, Rodgers B, Power C, Clark C & Stansfeld SA. Drinking histories of self identified lifetime abstainers and infrequent drinkers: Findings from the 1958 British Birth Cohort Study. Alcohol and Alcoholism. 2006; 41: 650-654. IF - 2.061.

Caldwell TM, Jorm AF, Knox S, Braddock D, Dear KBG, Britt H. General practice encounters for psychological problems in rural, remote and metropolitan areas in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 2004; 38: 774-780. IF - 1.900.

Caldwell TM, Jorm AF, Dear KBG. Suicide and mental health in rural, remote and metropolitan areas in Australia. Medical Journal of Australia 2004; 181: S10-S14. IF - 2.582; CITATIONS – 20.

Caldwell TM, Rodgers B, Jorm AF, Christensen H, Jacomb PA, Korten AE & Lynskey MT. Patterns of association between alcohol consumption and symptoms of depression and anxiety in young adults. Addiction. 2002; 97, 583-594. IF – 4.088.

Caldwell TM, Jorm AF. Mental health nurses’ beliefs about interventions for schizophrenia and depression: A comparison with psychiatrists and the public. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 2000; 34: 602-611. IF - 1.900.