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Dr Rowan P. Ogeil is a Senior Research Fellow (Level C) at the Eastern Health Clinical School within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University, and Strategic Lead of the National Addiction and Mental Health Surveillance Unit (NAMHSU) at Turning Point, Eastern Health. His research spans addiction, substance use, sleep, circadian rhythms, and population mental health surveillance.
Rowan holds a PhD in Psychology from Monash University (2012) and has been awarded prestigious fellowships including the NHMRC Peter Doherty Biomedical Fellowship and the Australia-Harvard Fellowship, which enabled him to serve as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is a Deputy Editor of Drug and Alcohol Review, the Asia-Pacific's leading multidisciplinary journal in substance use research.
His research focuses on translational methods across genetic, behavioural, and population levels, with a particular interest in the interactions between alcohol and other drug use and sleep and mental health outcomes, including shift work and circadian rhythm disturbances. His recent work leverages ambulance and helpline data to monitor substance-related harms in real time, particularly during the pandemic. He has published over 100 articles, cited over 1,700 times, and secured more than $10 million in research funding from NHMRC, ARC, and the Commonwealth Department of Health.
His recent publications reveal a strong trend toward population-level surveillance of substance use harms, integration of sleep science with addiction research, and the use of real-world data to inform public health policy. The studies employ epidemiological, behavioural, and psychological methodologies to understand risk factors, service utilization, and interventions.
- Peter Doherty Biomedical Fellowship (NHMRC)
- Australia-Harvard Fellowship
Rowan actively supervises Honours, Master’s, and Doctoral students and is involved in teaching as Unit Coordinator for the Master of Addictive Behaviours (M6014) at Monash. He has received significant research grants, including from NHMRC, ARC, and the Commonwealth Department of Health. He leads multiple active projects such as the National Ambulance Surveillance System for Alcohol and Other Drugs and research on equitable opioid harm reduction services.
He is Program Chair of the Emerging Research Leaders Program, a member of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee at Eastern Health Clinical School, and represents Turning Point on Alcohol Change Vic. He has delivered sleep workshops for the AOD workforce, developed a low-literacy healthy sleep tool used across Eastern Health, and contributed to public education through the SleepHub podcast and CSIRO’s STEM Professionals in Schools Program.
