Professor Matthew Spittal

Head, Mental Health Epidemiology Unit, Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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Health & Medicine

Nervous nineties or nerves-of-steel nineties?

Cricketers, on the verge of scoring a century, are often described as being in the ‘nervous nineties’ – a new study uses data to sort fact from fiction

Health & Medicine

We are leaving people released from prison vulnerable

Research shows that people released from prison are more likely to be the victims of violence, especially those with a mental illness or substance use disorder