Our work aims to maximise the health of Australians by providing evidence to support high-quality decision-making on e-cigarettes for the Australian context.

Pharmacoepidemiological research is integrated in work on variation in care and absolute CVD risk assessment and management.

The population health consequences of smoking vary between and within countries; our previous work indicates substantial underestimation of smoking-mortality harms in Australia.

Current recommended preventive treatment with blood pressure- and lipid-lowering medications can more than halve the risk of future CVD events. However, our findings showed that >70% of those at high CVD risk in Australia are not receiving such therapies

This partnership project with the Heart Foundation of Australia, Consumer Health Forum and NSW Health’s Agency for Clinical Innovation aims to quantify and prioritise targets for intervention across the spectrum of CVD risk factors, incidence, care and outcomes according to socioeconomic, rural/urban residence, Indigenous and mental health status.