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Dr Ellen Wessel is a Research Fellow at The University of Queensland's School of Public Health, with dual backgrounds in public health and criminology. She holds a PhD from UQ (2018) and has conducted extensive research on women's health, alcohol/drug use patterns, and policing interactions with substance users. Her work spans epidemiological studies, qualitative criminology, and policy evaluations.
Key affiliations include the Australian Women's and Girls' Health Research Centre and the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences. Current projects include the GELLES study on endometriosis and longitudinal health outcomes. She has supervised multiple research projects and authored over 20 peer-reviewed articles, focusing on stimulant use consequences, wastewater drug monitoring, and procedural justice in policing.
Her research identifies links between substance use and aggression, mental health disparities among stimulant users, and policing perceptions among drug users. She has contributed to community-based hepatitis C treatment programs and counter-violent extremism evaluations. Recent work combines wastewater data with festival surveys to assess drug use trends.
Dr Wessel is actively engaged in policy-oriented research, having produced reports on youth engagement programs, Muslim community integration, and drug harm mitigation strategies. She maintains an affiliate role with UQ's criminology teams while advancing interdisciplinary public health initiatives.
