Dr Jasmin Grigg
Senior Research Fellow, Clinical and Social Research Team, Turning Point and Monash
Overview
Dr Jasmin Grigg PhD MPH BPsych(Hons) is a Senior Research Fellow in Addiction Studies at Monash University (Eastern Health Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences) and Turning Point, Eastern Health.
Dr Grigg’s research focuses on developing new public health interventions to reduce alcohol and drug harms, with a particular emphasis on increasing awareness of the link between low-level alcohol consumption and cancers.
Working in close collaboration with consumer, community and government stakeholders, she uses co-design and hybrid effectiveness-implementation methodologies to develop and implement scalable, evidence-based interventions that reduce service gaps for people who are not accessing conventional alcohol and drug support.
Current projects
Dr Grigg leads Health4Her, a program of research integrating preventive health interventions within population-based breast screening. Leveraging this high-reach, inclusive platform, Health4Her engages a diverse group of women to address modifiable breast cancer risk factors, with a focus on increasing awareness of the link between alcohol and breast cancer risk. The intervention has been extensively co-designed with women attending breast screening services and service providers to support effective implementation.
Dr Grigg leads the evaluation of the statewide Driver Support Service, developed in partnership with Road Safety Victoria, Victoria Police and Turning Point. At roadside detection, drivers are offered an electronic referral (e-referral) to a novel, telephone-delivered intervention aimed at reducing re-offending during the period between detection and licence suspension – the only window without countermeasures or support for drivers, and when recidivism is highest.
She is also an Investigator on the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)-funded Ready2Change national trials, which evaluate the effectiveness of tailored telephone-delivered cognitive and behavioural interventions for alcohol and methamphetamine use disorders, designed to maximise treatment access and coverage.
Background
Dr Grigg also contributed to a National Centre for Clinical Research on Emerging Drugs (NCCRED)-funded co-design and implementation project that established a system to translate forensic data from police drug seizures into clinical alerts, enabling earlier and more targeted public health responses.
In her previous role at the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, she developed training tools with health professionals to improve their response to family violence in the community.
She also contributed to policy reform to improve the safety of women receiving inpatient treatment for severe mental illness, and developed sex-specific algorithms to assist clinical decision-making to balance effective psychiatric treatment while minimising the endocrine adverse effects of antipsychotic drugs.
Impact and sector engagement
Dr Grigg has led multiple projects that have directly informed government decision-making, health service delivery and client care. Her research has been commissioned by the Victorian Department of Health (including development of the Methamphetamine Treatment Guidelines), the Victorian Department of Transport and Planning, and the Victorian Mental Health Complaints Commissioner.
Contact details
You can contact Jasmin at [email protected]
More information
View Jasmin’s Monash University staff profile, or explore her work via Google Scholar.