Dr Coral Gartner

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Research Interests

Tobacco smoking remains Australia's leading preventable cause of premature mortality. While substantial progress has been made in reducing Australia's smoking prevalence, the decline is slow. This research aims to identify and assess the potential impact of new tobacco control strategies to accelerate the decline in smoking prevalence.

Research Projects

Projects include:

  • Modelling the impact of a nicotine vaccine used to prevent smoking initiation.
  • Projections of future smoking prevalence.
  • Evaluating potential harm reduction options for tobacco smokers.
  • Assessing the impact of neuroscience research on smokers' understanding of tobacco addiction, quitting self-efficacy and cessation behaviour.
  • Monitoring community illicit drug use via wastewater analysis of drug target residues.

Key publications

Gartner C., Hall W., Vos T., Bertram M., Wallace A., Lim S. Assessment of Swedish snus for tobacco harm reduction: an epidemiological modelling study. Lancet 2007; 369(9578): 2010-4.

Gartner C., Hall W., Chapman S., Freeman B. The PLoS Medicine Debate: Should the health community promote smokeless tobacco (snus) as a harm reduction measure? PLoS Medicine 2007; 4(7): e185.

Gartner C., Barendregt J., Hall W. Multiple genetic tests for susceptibility to smoking do not outperform simple family history. Addiction 2009; 104(1): 118-26.

Hall W., Gartner C., Carter A. The genetics of nicotine addiction liability: ethical and social policy implications. Addiction 2008; 103 (3): 350-9.

Contact details and email

Dr Coral Gartner

NHMRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Addiction Neuroethics, UQCCR

The University of Queensland

Room 707, Building 71/918, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Site, Herston Qld 4029 Australia

T: +61 7 3346 5472| Fax: +61 7 3346 5598 | Email: c.gartner@uq.edu.au

Funding acknowledgement

National Health and Medical Research Council

Technique Expertise

Epidemiological Modelling

Collaborations

Assoc Prof Jan Barendregt (School of Population Health, The University of Queensland)

Assoc Prof Jochen Mueller (EnTox, The University of Queensland)

Dr Christoph Ort (Advanced Wastewater Management Centre, The University of Queensland)

Prof Ron Borland (VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria)