Joanna completed her Bachelor of Psychological Science in 2020 at the University of Queensland. She completed her honours thesis with the Lives Lived Well research group, exploring pain and psychotic like experiences in young people who use cannabis and the impacts of poor mental health and childhood trauma. Her research interests include AOD harm reduction and youth mental health.
MIXMAX is the largest active cohort study of people who use drugs in Australia. It combines 2 pre-existing studies: SuperMIX and VMAX.
The Drugs Trends Program includes the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) and the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS).
The VMAX cohort study follows 850 people who use methamphetamine recruited from metropolitan Melbourne and 3 regions of rural Victoria.