Charles Livingstone

Dr. Charles Livingstone is an Associate Professor at Monash University's School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, specializing in critical gambling studies, health policy, and social theory. He teaches health policy, sociology, and politics in the Bachelor of Health Sciences program while leading the Gambling and Social Determinants unit.

• Current roles:
  • WHO Expert Group on Gambling
  • Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling
• Research focus areas:
  • Electronic Gambling Machine regulation
  • Commercial determinants of health
  • Socioeconomic inequality in gambling harms

His work addresses gambling policy reform, stigma, and socioeconomic impacts through empirical studies and media engagement. Recent articles explore topics like gambling-machine design mechanisms, health equity for waste pickers, and neuroscience-policy intersections. He co-convenes the annual Dangerous Consumption colloquia since 2001.

• Scientific recognition: PHAA Sax Oration (2017)

As a peer reviewer for journals like The Lancet Public Health and Frontiers in Psychiatry, he contributes to academic discourse. His projects span from EGM harm prevention to comparative analyses of global gambling markets, with recent funding from the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation.