Rate My Professor Coral Gartner

Professor Coral Gartner is a Professor of Public Health in the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland, Faculty of Medicine, where she holds the position of Director of Research and Professorial Research Fellow. She earned a Bachelor of Applied Science, Bachelor (Honours), and Doctor of Philosophy in environmental epidemiology from Queensland University of Technology. Professor Gartner joined the University of Queensland in 2006 following undergraduate qualifications in environmental health. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship focused on tobacco control policy and held a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Career Development Fellowship from 2014 to 2018. Her career includes appointments as an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame, Chair of the Interdisciplinary Tobacco Endgame Research Network, and country lead investigator for Australia in the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project. She also serves as Co-Investigator on the SewAUs Wastewater Epidemiology Project and Regional Editor for Australasia for the BMJ journal Tobacco Control, having previously been a senior editor from 2012 to 2018. Additionally, she is the immediate Past President of the Oceania Chapter of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.

Professor Gartner's research specializations encompass tobacco control policy, electronic nicotine delivery systems, tobacco endgame strategies, harm reduction, smoking cessation interventions, and wastewater epidemiology for substance use monitoring. Her multidisciplinary approaches include cohort studies, clinical trials, policy analyses, simulation modelling, and mixed methods research, aimed at developing evidence-based policies to end the cigarette epidemic while addressing equity and unintended impacts. She has authored over 300 academic works, including key publications such as 'Assessment of Swedish snus for tobacco harm reduction: an epidemiological modelling study' (The Lancet, 2007), 'Gateway or common liability? A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies of adolescent e-cigarette use and future smoking initiation' (Addiction, 2021), and 'Refining the estimation of illicit drug consumptions from wastewater analysis: co-analysis of prescription pharmaceuticals and uncertainty assessment' (Water Research, 2011). In 2019, she led the development of UQ's flagship cross-faculty postgraduate programs in Environmental Health Sciences. Her influence extends to expert witness testimonies, government submissions, and grants including multiple NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence and ARC Future Fellowships.