National Addiction and Mental Health Surveillance Unit

The National Addiction and Mental Health Surveillance Unit (NAMHSU) aims to reduce the impact of addiction, self-harm, and mental ill health through the provision of surveillance data that is used to inform policy and interventions.

	Dr Rowan Ogeil is a Senior Research Fellow in the Eastern Health Clinical School in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and Strategic Lead of the NAMHSU at Turning Point, Eastern Health. Dr Ogeil's research employs translational methods across genetic, behavioural, and population levels. He has a particular interest in interactions between alcohol and other drug use and sleep and mental health outcomes, including shift work and circadian rhythm disturbances. Dr Ogeil currently collaborates with MARC researchers on several projects, including: Provision of national data on paramedic call outs to suicidal and self-harming events National Ambulance Surveillance System for Alcohol and Other Drug Misuse and Overdoes 2022-2025 Linking clinical and basic science discovery to find new treatments for alcohol use disorder
	Dr Ryan Baldwin is a Research fellow at the NAMHSU. Dr Baldwin currently works across a range of projects within NAMSHU, including data analysis and report writing and manuscript development. He has a research background in psychology, with a particular focus on alcohol policy, adolescent mental health, violence and adverse childhood experiences. Dr Baldwin currently collaborates with MARC researchers on projects such as From Richmond to Mallacoota: Are opioid harm reduction and treatment services provided in an equitable way in the Eastern region of Victoria?
	Dr Natasha Hall is currently a Research Fellow at Monash Health Economics Group and NAMHSU. Her research interests include health economics techniques such as cost of illness studies, economic evaluations, discrete choice experiments, and quality of life studies to understand and improve the mental health of Australians. She has a special interest in opioid use disorders. Dr Hall currently collaborates with MARC researchers on projects such as From Richmond to Mallacoota: Are opioid harm reduction and treatment services provided in an equitable way in the Eastern region of Victoria?
	Jessica Killian is a Research Fellow in the NAMHSU at Turning Point and an adjunct research fellow at Monash University. She currently works across a variety of projects across the NAMHSU team, and leads and contributes to tasks including data analysis, report writing, and development of research and conference papers.