Sue Cotton

Professor Sue Cotton is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Monash University, specializing in mental health research with a focus on youth mental health, psychosis intervention, and health economics. She has led or contributed to over 86 research outputs since 2005, including influential studies on suicide risk assessment and cost-effectiveness analyses of mental health interventions. Her recent work includes a 2024 project on early intervention in bipolar disorder and collaborations on digital health tools for youth mental health. She actively supervises PhD students and maintains international research collaborations.

Key research areas include:

• Development of clinical assessment tools for suicidal ideation
• Evaluation of health economic models in mental health service delivery
• Optimization of first-episode psychosis treatment through online social therapies
• Application of clustering algorithms to identify patient subgroups in mental health studies

Her work bridges clinical practice and computational methods, with significant contributions to public health policy through evidence-based research.