Dr Belinda Lloyd leads the Population Health Research Program at Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre. 

Dr Belinda Lloyd has worked in government and academic settings in Queensland, where she has coordinated and supervised numerous research projects incorporating quantitative and qualitative design, and involving large data collections, analysis and interpretation. 

Dr Lloyd developed a research program examining pharmaceutical drug misuse, using data from routine statewide population monitoring. The aim of the program was to better inform prevention, treatment and drug-use trends in the field of pharmaceutical drug use, misuse and its treatment. 

The study resulted in the publication of statewide data relating to pharmaceutical use, and also pharmacotherapy treatment and she has presented on this study at numerous national and international conferences. 

Dr Lloyd has a PhD in epidemiology, utilising large-scale longitudinal data. She is a regular presenter at national and international conferences on epidemiological research relating to alcohol and other drugs.

• Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs use within and across populations
• gambling prevalence and correlates
• methods development utilising population level administrative data
• socioeconomic determinants of health
• marginalisation in health-care delivery
• mental health, longitudinal and life course health research

Turning Point Projects

• Earlier Identification of Drug Harms Project (EIDHP)
• Alcohol & drug-related ambulance attendances
• Mapping of alcohol and drug-related events attended by ambulance
• Victorian alcohol statistics series
• Victorian drug statistics handbook
• Estimating the mortality of drug treatment clients in Victoria: A feasibility study
• Examination of alcohol cirrhosis trends over time
• Drug and alcohol-related ambulance and hospital data linkage project
• Drinking cultures and social occasions: Alcohol harms in the context of major public holidays, sporting and cultural events
• Data Collection System Analysis
• Alcohol and Interpersonal Violence in Victoria: Trends over time

• Lloyd, B. (2009). Alcohol and Interpersonal Violence in Victoria: Trends over Time. Melbourne: Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre.
• Lloyd, B., & Livingston, M. (2009). Measures of drug and alcohol prevention, use and harm: Data collection system analysis. Melbourne, Australia: Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre.
• Nielsen, S., & Lloyd, B. (2009). Benzodiazepines: Misuse, treatment and Surveillance. Of Substance, 7(3), 12-13.
• Livingston, M., Matthews, S., Barratt, M. J., Lloyd, B., & Room, R. (2010). Diverging trends in alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm in Victoria. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 34(4), 368-373.
• Lloyd, B., Matthews, S., Livingston, M., & Jayasekara, H. (In press). Drinking cultures and social occasions: Alcohol harms in the context of major public holidays, sporting and cultural events. Melbourne: Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre.

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