Rate My Professor Rebecca McKetin

Professor Rebecca McKetin (BSc(Psychol)Hons, PhD) is a Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) in the Faculty of Medicine & Health at the University of New South Wales. She leads a program of research into stimulant use epidemiology and interventions, with a focus on methamphetamine use patterns, harms, and treatment. McKetin established the first international longitudinal treatment outcomes study for methamphetamine dependence, the Methamphetamine Treatment Evaluation Study (MATES), a three-year prospective cohort of 501 people, which demonstrated the effectiveness of community-based treatments. She has adapted indirect prevalence estimation methods to quantify dependent methamphetamine users in Australia and contributed to regional monitoring systems for methamphetamine and other drugs in the Asia Pacific. Her research has been pivotal in quantifying risks of psychosis, violence, and other mental health outcomes associated with methamphetamine use. Current projects include online psychological interventions such as Breaking the Ice and wadawanti, pharmacotherapy trials including the Tina Trial, N-ICE trial, and LiMA study for methamphetamine dependence, novel responses to methamphetamine use in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities through NIMAC, and the OASIS project developing a national data linkage platform to monitor illicit drug use, risks, and health outcomes.