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Associate Professor Louise Mewton is a public health researcher affiliated with the Matilda Centre at the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Medicine and Health. She also holds a visiting role at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, UNSW Sydney, and collaborates with the COSMIC Collaborators and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Her research focuses on alcohol use disorders across the lifespan, emphasizing their cognitive impacts in gestation, adolescence, and older adulthood. She leads projects on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) teacher resources, neurodevelopmental studies using ABCD Study data, and global dementia epidemiology via COSMIC cohort harmonization. Mewton has secured $16M in funding from NHMRC, NIH, and other bodies to support her work.
Her research interests include population neuroscience, comorbidity between mental health and substance use disorders, diagnostic models of psychopathology, and biostatistical methods. Key projects include a randomized controlled trial of an online alcohol intervention in older adults and a large-scale study on the general factor of psychopathology in adolescents. Mewton’s work also addresses pandemic mental health, particularly emotion regulation strategies during the 2020 pandemic year.
- Awards & Honours:
- 2024 Fulbright Scholar
- UNSW Scientia Career Development Fellowship (2019–2022)
- Young Tall Poppy Science Award (2017)
- Multiple national and international grants (e.g., NIH, NHMRC)
Grants and advising: Mewton leads the $16M-funded ‘Rethink My Drink’ trial targeting older adults and collaborates on global dementia initiatives. She advises research students like Nicholas HOY on transdiagnostic mental health models. Her grants include the Matilda Centre-UCSD Compact for adolescent health research and NIH-supported projects exploring alcohol-dementia links. She also contributed to the Climate Schools Combined Trial, a long-term prevention program.
Labs and teams: She is part of the Matilda Centre, Brain and Mind Centre, and COSMIC collaboration. Her work bridges clinical research, population health, and digital intervention design.
