Associate Professor Kylie Lee

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Kylie Lee has a longstanding track record as a researcher in the challenging field of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australian alcohol and other drug use. Her community- or Indigenous service-led research ensures immediate benefit to those involved. She is CI on current NHMRC grants totalling more than $10.2m – three Project grants, an Ideas grant (as CIA), Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases grant and a Centre of Research Excellence (Indigenous Health and Alcohol).

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Conigrave, J., Lee, K., S., Dobbins, T., Wilson, S., Padarian, J., Ivers, R., G., Morley, K., Haber, P., Vnuk, J., Marshall, K. and Conigrave, K. (2024). No improvement in AUDIT-C screening and brief intervention rates among wait-list controls following support of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services: evidence from a cluster randomised trial. BMC Health Services Research, 24, (1). doi:10.1186/s12913-024-11214-6 [RJ2185] View web page

Conigrave, J., Wilson, S., Conigrave, K., Perry, J., Hayman, N., Chikritzhs, T., N., Wilson, D., Zheng, C., Weatherall, T. and Lee, K., S. (2024). Countering stereotypes: Exploring the characteristics of Aboriginal Australians who do not drink alcohol in a community representative sample. Drug and Alcohol Review. doi:10.1111/dar.13907 [RJ2184] View web page

Dzidowska, M., Lee, K., S., Conigrave, J., Wilson, S., Hayman, N., Ivers, R., G., Vnuk, J., Haber, P. and Conigrave, K. (2024). Supporting alcohol brief interventions and pharmacotherapy provision in Australian First Nations primary care: exploratory analysis of a cluster randomised trial. BMC Primary Care, 25, (1). doi:10.1186/s12875-024-02598-9 [RJ2201] View web page

Lee, K., S., Conigrave, J., Dale, E., Conigrave, K., Dzidowska, M., Reynolds, T., Wilson, S., Perry, J., Manton, D., Lee, A., Hayman, N. and Zheng, C. (2024). Acceptability and quality of the ‘Grog Survey App’ brief intervention: Helping Aboriginal Australians reflect on their drinking using a digital health tool. Drug and Alcohol Review. doi:10.1111/dar.13964 [RJ2204] View web page

Weatherall, T., Conigrave, J., Lee, K., S., Vnuk, J., Ivers, R., G., Hayman, N., Wilson, S., Gray, D. and Conigrave, K. (2024). Alcohol screening in 22 Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations: clinical context and who is screened. Drug and Alcohol Review. doi:10.1111/dar.13851 [RJ2145] View web page

Amanual Getnet, M., Kennedy, M., Eftekhari, P., Lee, K., S., Penney, U., Segan, C., J., Jackson, M., A., Jennings, K. and Gillian Sandra, G. (2023). Using the Behaviour Change Wheel and modified Delphi method to identify behavioural change techniques for improving adherence to smoking cessation medications. BMC Public Health, 23, (1), pp. 1362. doi:10.1186/s12889-023-16278-3 [RJ2085] View web page

Conigrave, J., Devine, E., K., Lee, K., S., Dobbins, T., Vnuk, J., Hayman, N. and Conigrave, K. (2023). Unintended consequences: Alcohol screening at urban Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services was suppressed during COVID-19 lockdowns. Drug and Alcohol Review. doi:10.1111/dar.13761 [RJ2118] View web page

Lee, K., S., Conigrave, J., Wilson, S., Perry, J., Hayman, N., Chikritzhs, T., N., Room, R., Weatherall, T., Zheng, C. and Conigrave, K. (2023). Deeper understandings of patterns of drinking among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: Informing policy and practice. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. doi:10.1002/hpja.696 [RJ2028] View web page

Lee, K., S., Wilson, S., Stearne, A., Hayman, N., Conigrave, J., Doyle, M., F., Bullen, L., Weatherall, T., James, D., B., Reynolds, T., Perry, J. and Conigrave, K. (2023). Walking side-by-side: supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians to lead the way in alcohol research. Drug and Alcohol Review, 42, (2), pp. 241-247. doi:10.1111/dar.13523 [RJ1835] View web page

Meharg, D., P., Naanyu, V., Rambaldini, B., Clarke, M., J., Lacey, C., Jebasingh, F., Lopez-Jaramillo, P., Gould, G., S., Aceves, B., Alison, J., A., Chaiton, M., Chen, J., Gonzalez-Salazar, F., Goodyear-Smith, F., Gwynne, K., G., Lee, K., S., MacKay, D., Maple-Brown, L., Mishara, B., L., Nigenda, G., Ramani-Chander, A., Sherwood, S., G., Thomas, N., Thrift, A., G. and Anderson, M. (2023). The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases researchers’ statement on non-communicable disease research with Indigenous peoples. The Lancet Global Health, 11, (3), pp. e324 - e326. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00039-6 [RJ2023] View web page

Purcell-Khodr, G., Conigrave, J., Lee, K., S., Vnuk, J. and Conigrave, K. (2023). Low rates of prescribing alcohol relapse prevention medicines in Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services. Drug and Alcohol Review. doi:10.1111/dar.13708 [RJ2075] View web page

Scholin, L., Lee, K., S., London, L., Pearson, M., Otieno, F., Weerasinghe, M., Konradsen, F., Eddleston, M. and Sorensen, J., B. (2023). The role of alcohol use in pesticide suicide and self-harm: a scoping review. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. doi:10.1007/s00127-023-02526-9 [RJ2079] View web page

Sorensen, J., B., Lee, K., S., Dawson, A., Dawson, A., Senarathna, L., Pushpakumara, J., P., Rajapakse, T., Konradsen, F., Glozier, N., Conigrave, K., Siriwardhana, P. and Hansen, D. (2023). Evaluating the programme and behavior change theories of a community alcohol education intervention in rural Sri Lanka: a study protocol. Global Health Action, 16, (1). doi:10.1080/16549716.2023.2273625 [RJ2127] View web page

Welch, S., Moles, R., Viardot, A., Deweerd, P., Scott, D. and Lee, K., S. (2023). Connecting the Dots of Care: A pilot study linking Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples with diabetes care in hospital, using hospital pharmacists. Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 12. doi:10.1016/j.rcsop.2023.100351 [RJ2123] View web page

Conigrave, J., Lee, K., S., Haber, P., Vnuk, J., Doyle, M., F. and Conigrave, K. (2022). More than three times as many Indigenous Australian clients at risk from drinking could be supported if clinicians used AUDIT-C instead of unstructured assessments. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 17, (1). doi:10.1186/s13722-022-00306-5 [RJ1883] View web page

Conigrave, J., Wilson, S., Conigrave, K., Chikritzhs, T., N., Hayman, N., Dawson, A., Ali, R., L., Perry, J., Fitts, M., Degenhardt, L., Doyle, M., F., Egert, S., Slade, T., Ezard, N., Dzidowska, M. and Lee, K., S. (2022). 'The Drug Survey App': a protocol for developing and validating an interactive population survey tool for drug use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 17. doi:10.1186/s13722-022-00298-2 [RJ1889] View web page

Dzidowska, M., Lee, K., S., Conigrave, J., Dobbins, T., Hummerston, B., Wilson, S., Haber, P., Gray, D. and Conigrave, K. (2022). Support for Aboriginal health services in reducing harms from alcohol: 2-year service provision outcomes in a cluster randomized trial. Addiction, 117, pp. 796-803. doi:10.1111/add.15712 [RJ1795] View web page

Dzidowska, M., Raubenheimer, J., E., Dobbins, T., Lee, K., S., Hayman, N., Vnuk, J., Haber, P. and Conigrave, K. (2022). Effects of service-wide support on regularity of alcohol screening of clients in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Services: a cluster randomised trial. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 17, (1). doi:10.1186/s13722-022-00294-6 [RJ1863] View web page

Fitts, M., Burchill, R., Wilson, S., Palk, G., R., Clough, A., R., Conigrave, K., Slade, T., Shakeshaft, A., P. and Lee, K., S. (2022). Drink driving among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: What has been done and where to next? Drug and Alcohol Review, 41, (6), pp. 1412-1417. doi:10.1111/dar.13418 [RJ1840] View web page

Lee, K., S., Bullen, L., Zheng, C., Dawson, A., Munro, A. and Conigrave, K. (2022). Beliefs and attitudes of drug and alcohol clinicians when considering referral of Aboriginal clients to involuntary drug and alcohol treatment: A qualitative study. Drug and Alcohol Review. doi:10.1111/dar.13549 [RJ1945] View web page

Stapinski, L., Routledge, K., Snijder, M., Doyle, M., F., Champion, K., E., Chapman, C., Ward, J., Baumgart, A., Lee, K., S., Teesson, M. and Newton, N., C. (2022). A Web-Based Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Program (Strong & Deadly Futures) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander School Students: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols. doi:10.2196/34530 [RJ1860] View web page

Stearne, A., Lee, K., S., Allsop, S., Shakeshaft, A., P. and Wright, M. (2022). First Nations Australians’ experiences of current alcohol policy in Central Australia: evidence of self-determination? BMC International Journal for Equity in Health, 21, (1). doi:10.1186/s12939-022-01719-z [RJ1881] View web page

Stearne, A., Lee, K., S., Allsop, S., Shakeshaft, A., P. and Wright, M. (2022). First Nations Australians’ self-determination in health and alcohol policy development: a Delphi Study. BMC Health Research Policy and Systems, 20, (1). doi:10.1186/s12961-022-00813-6 [RJ1758] View web page

Stearne, A., Lee, K., S., Allsop, S., Shakeshaft, A., P. and Wright, M. (2022). Self-determination by First Nations Australians in alcohol policy: lessons from Mbantua/Alice Springs (Northern Territory, Australia). International Journal of Drug Policy, 108, pp. 103822. doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103822 [RJ1882] View web page

Conigrave, J., Bradshaw, E., Conigrave, K., Ryan, R., M., Wilson, S., Perry, J., Doyle, M., F. and Lee, K., S. (2021). Alcohol consumption and dependence is linked to the extent that people experience need satisfaction while drinking alcohol in two Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 16, (1). doi:10.1186/s13722-021-00231-z [RJ1708] View web page

Conigrave, J., Conigrave, K., Wilson, S. and Lee, K., S. (2021). Indigenous Australian drinking risk: Comparing risk categorisations based on recall of recent drinking occasions to AUDIT-C screening in a representative sample. Drug and Alcohol Review. doi:10.1111/dar.13403 [RJ1846] View web page

Doug, J., B., Lee, K., S., Dronavalli, M., Courtney, R., J., Conigrave, K. and Shakeshaft, A., P. (2021). Predictors of length of treatment, discharge reason, and re-admission to Aboriginal alcohol and other drug residential rehabilitation services in New South Wales, Australia. Drug and Alcohol Review. doi:10.1111/dar.13388 [RJ1817] View web page

Freeburn, B., Loggins, S., Lee, K., S. and Conigrave, K. (2021). Coming of age: 21 years of providing opioid substitution treatment within an Aboriginal community-controlled primary health service. Drug and Alcohol Review. doi:10.1111/dar.13345 [RJ1762] View web page

Weatherall, T., Conigrave, J., Conigrave, K., Perry, J., Wilson, S., Room, R., Chikritzhs, T., N. and Lee, K., S. (2021). Alcohol dependence in a community sample of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: harms, getting help and awareness of local treatments. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 16, (1). doi:10.1186/s13722-021-00274-2 [RJ1825] View web page

Weatherall, T., Conigrave, J., Conigrave, K., Perry, J., Wilson, S., Room, R., Fitts, M., Hayman, N. and Lee, K., S. (2021). Prevalence and correlates of alcohol dependence in an Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representative sample: Using the Grog Survey App. Drug and Alcohol Review. doi:10.1111/dar.13292 [RJ1714] View web page

Zheng, C., Conigrave, J., Conigrave, K., Wilson, S., Perry, J., Chikritzhs, T., N., Fitts, M. and Lee, K., S. (2021). Patterns of drinking in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as self-reported on the Grog Survey App: A representative urban and remote sample. Drug and Alcohol Review. doi:10.1111/dar.13333 [RJ1752] View web page

Lee, K., S., Fitts, M., Conigrave, J., Zheng, C., Perry, J., Wilson, S., Ah Chee, D., Bond, S., Weetra, K., Chikritzhs, T., N., Slade, T. and Conigrave, K. (2020). Recruiting a representative sample of urban South Australian Aboriginal adults for a survey on alcohol consumption. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 20. doi:10.1186/s12874-020-01067-y [RJ1669] View web page

Harrison, K., Lee, K., S., Dobbins, T., Wilson, S., Hayman, N., Ivers, R., Haber, P., Conigrave, J., Johnson, D., Hummerston, B., Gray, D. and Conigrave, K. (2019). Supporting Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services to deliver alcohol care: Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 9, (11). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030909 [RJ1567] View web page

Lee, K., S., Conigrave, J., Al Ansari, M., Wilson, S., Perry, J., Zheng, C., Freeburn, B., Room, R., Callinan, S., Hayman, N., Chikritzhs, T., N., Slade, T., Gray, D. and Conigrave, K. (2019). Acceptability and feasibility of a computer-based application to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians describe their alcohol consumption. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse. doi:10.1080/15332640.2019.1579144 [RJ1507] View web page

Lee, K., S., Conigrave, J., Callinan, S., Wilson, S., Room, R., Perry, J., Slade, T., Chikritzhs, T., N., Hayman, N., Weatherall, T., Leggat, G., Gray, D. and Conigrave, K. (2019). Asking about the last four drinking occasions on a tablet computer as a way to record alcohol consumption in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: a validation. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 14, (1). doi:10.1186/s13722-019-0148-2 [RJ1506] View web page

Lee, K., S., Conigrave, J., Wilson, S., Perry, J., Callinan, S., Room, R., Chikritzhs, T., N., Slade, T., Hayman, N., Leggat, G. and Conigrave, K. (2019). Short screening tools for risky drinking in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: modified AUDIT-C and a new approach. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 14. doi:10.1186/s13722-019-0152-6 [RJ1671] View web page

Lee, K., S., Conigrave, J., Wilson, S., Perry, J., Hayman, N., Zheng, C., Al Ansari, M., Doyle, M., F., Room, R., Callinan, S., Chikritzhs, T., N., Slade, T. and Conigrave, K. (2019). Patterns of drinking in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as self-reported on the Grog Survey App: a stratified sample. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 19. doi:10.1186/s12911-019-0879-8 [RJ1672] View web page

Lee, K., S., Wilson, S., Perry, J., Room, R., Callinan, S., Assan, R., Hayman, N., Chikritzhs, T., N., Gray, D., Wilkes, E., T., Jack, P. and Conigrave, K. (2018). Developing a tablet computer based application ('App') to measure self-reported alcohol consumption in Indigenous Australians. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 18, (8). doi:10.1186/s12911-018-0583-0 [RJ1381] View web page

Brett, J., Lee, K., S., Gray, D., Wilson, S., Freeburn, B., Harrison, K. and Conigrave, K. (2016). Mind the gap: What is the difference between alcohol treatment need and access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians? Drug and Alcohol Review, 35, (4), pp. 456-460. doi:10.1111/dar.12313 [RJ1121] View web page

Lee, K., S., Chikritzhs, T., N., Wilson, S., Wilkes, E., T., Gray, D., Room, R. and Conigrave, K. (2014). Better methods to collect self-reported alcohol and other drug use data from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Drug and Alcohol Review, 33, pp. 482-490. doi:10.1111/dar.12159 [RJ993] View web page

Dzidowska, M., Lee, K., S., Conigrave, J., Dobbins, T., Hummerston, B., Wilson, S., Haber, P., Gray, D. and Conigrave, K. (2000). Support for Aboriginal health services in their work on reducing harms from alcohol: 2-year service provision outcomes in a cluster randomized trial. Addiction, 39, (6), pp. 646-655. doi:10.1111/dar.13085 [RJ1706] View web page

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