A/Prof Rebecca McKetin

9 November 2021

A/Prof McKetin is Australia’s foremost expert on methamphetamine use, having received a Young Tall Poppy Science Award for her research in this field. Her major achievements including establishing the world’s first methamphetamine treatment outcome study, leading research into the emergence of crystalline methamphetamine use in Australia and developing and evaluating the world’s first online intervention for psychostimulant use.

Research interests

Stimulant use, methamphetamine use and harms, methamphetamine psychosis, epidemiology, service coverage and barriers to care.

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