Professor Philip Batterham
Professor
Co-Head, CMHR
BSc (Psych)(Hons) (UNSW), MPH (UCLA), PhD (ANU)
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About
Phil Batterham is a Professor and Co-Head of the Centre for Mental Health Research, in the College of Health and Medicine. He is a research leader in trialing and implementing prevention programs for mental health and suicidal behaviour, assessing mental health in the community, and reducing barriers to care. He has recevied three NHMRC fellowships and been a Chief Investigator on two NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence, seven NHMRC project grants (2 as CIA), one NHMRC CTCS cohort study (CIA), two NHMRC-EU Collaborative Research Grants (1 as CIA), three NHMRC Partnership Grants, MRFF Clinical Trials network, Wellcome Trust grant, EU-Horizon 2020 grant, and Australian Rotary Health Grant as PI (three more as CI).
Affiliations
Groups
Research interests
- Assessment and epidemiology of mental illness
- Suicide prevention
- Research methods
- Psychiatric rating scales
- E-mental health
- Implementation science
- Rural mental health
Projects
- Assessing mental health, Principal investigator
- Canberra Longitudinal Study, Principal investigator
- Epidemiology of suicidal behaviour, Principal investigator
- FitMindKit, Principal investigator
- ImpleMentAll, Principal investigator
- LifeTrack: Understanding Suicidal Transitions, Principal investigator
- Screening for suicidality and distress in young people, Principal investigator
- Sustainable Farms Initiative, Principal investigator
- The Helipad Trial: Brief online training to support workplace mental health , Principal investigator
- The Way Back Monitoring Evaluation, Principal investigator
- Interpersonal needs and mental health in adolescents, Supervisor
- Investigating Interventions for Postnatal Depression, Supervisor
- Mental health measures (self-reliance), Supervisor
- MindCast PodCast, Supervisor
- Protective pathways for preventing suicide, Supervisor
- Stigma and help seeking in adolescents, Supervisor
- ACT Asbestos Health Study, Researcher
- Attitudes to suicide, Researcher
- Beacon: Directory of evidence-based online programs, Researcher
- Co-Creating Safe Spaces, Researcher
- Development of a program to help parents better support the mental health needs of their children, Researcher
- Development of an online portal to support youth and parents, Researcher
- Disclosing suicidal ideation , Researcher
- Evaluation of the Thriving Minds program in ACT primary schools, Researcher
- iChill, Researcher
- LifeSpan: Integrated Suicide Prevention, Researcher
- PFAS Health Study, Researcher
- Silence is Deadly, Researcher
- Social fragmentation and mental disorders, Researcher
- Sources of Strength Australia, Researcher
- Uni Virtual Clinic, Researcher
Location
Room 1.17, Building 63