TSANZ President Award

Associate Professor Hamish Graham is a paediatrician, clinician-scientist, and leader in oxygen service delivery in low-resource settings globally. He works at the Centre for International Child Health, MCRI, University of Melbourne, and the Royal Children’s Hospital, is a Visiting Consultant at University College Hospital Ibadan, Nigeria, and Co-Chaired the Lancet Global Health Commission on Medical Oxygen.

Hamish is passionate about improving care for children in low- and middle-income countries, with a special interest in respiratory support for children and neonates, access to pulse oximetry and oxygen, and systems of care for children with acute and chronic conditions. Hamish works with collaborators in Australia, Nigeria, Uganda, Afghanistan, Lao PDR, and Cambodia, and has been supported by RCH Foundation, NHMRC, BMGF, Grand Challenges Canada, and others. Hamish has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and consulted for the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, the Asian Development Bank, and other global health agencies.

Hamish is honoured to be recognised by TSANZ and continues to inspire others towards a vision of health equity.

A/Prof Stockings (BPsyc Hons I, PhD) is an NHMRC Fellow and Deputy Director of Research & Strategy at the Matilda Centre, University of Sydney. She is Program Lead of Smoking, Vaping and Mental Health, where she leads an internationally renowned program of research on vaping trends, emerging harms and designs and evaluates vaping resources.

A/Prof Stockings is one of Australia’s preeminent vaping and tobacco experts. She has 16 years’ experience co-designing and evaluating behavioural programs for smoking cessation and vaping prevention ($16.9M career funding, $11.1M as CI; 6 RCTs, > 7000 participants).  She has published 84 peer-reviewed papers and is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (9464 citations, Top 1% Cited Globally). She is a co-chief investigator of the OurFutures Vaping prevention program – the first RCT-evaluated vaping prevention program in Australia – and is an expert advisor on tobacco control and vaping prevention to the WHO, the UN and to the NSW and Federal Government.

Her work has had translational impact, resulting in legislative and policy change and program implementation in Australia and internationally. Most recently, the OurFutures Vaping prevention program was endorsed by the Commonwealth Department of Health to be rolled out to all secondary schools nationally, reaching 1,141 schools and 278,256 students and their schools at the time of writing.

Professor Nicola Newton is the Director of Prevention Research at the Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use at the University of Sydney, where she leads an internationally renowned program of research to advance the prevention of substance use and mental disorders. She is also a co-Director of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence – PREMISE (Prevention and Early Intervention in Mental Illness and Substance Use) Next Generation, and Vice President of the Alliance for the Prevention of Mental Disorders. Prof Newton holds a Bachelor of Psychology (Hons Class 1) from Macquarie University (2005) and a PhD from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, at UNSW (2009).

Prof Newton is a national and international authority on school-based substance use prevention, having led some of the largest and longest trials of substance use prevention in schools (10 RCTs; >290 schools; >26K students) and commercialising the first effective eHealth prevention programs for substance use in schools (reaching >1K schools). Prof Newton has authored >230 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals (>7,500 citations), 12 book chapters, >50 reports and 27 educational resources. She is an Assistant Editor for the journals Drug & Alcohol Review and Addiction. She has secured >$51 million as a Chief Investigator in competitive research funding for clinical trials and translation (>$8.5M CIA) and is currently leading grants from the NHMRC, MRFF, Movember Foundation, and the Aust Govt Dept Health. Prof Newton advises state and federal health and education departments on substance use and vaping prevention.