Brian Vandenberg
Research Fellow
Australian Gambling Research Centre
Dr Brian Vandenberg is a health economist and is a Research Fellow in the Australian Gambling Research Centre. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine at Monash University, a Member of the Monash Addiction Research Centre, and an Associate Editor of Addiction journal. His research interests include the social and economic determinants of gambling and alcohol and drug related harm, using quantitative and qualitative methods.
In addition to his background in research within universities, he is an experienced policy advisor and program manager in the alcohol and drugs field and other areas of public health within state and federal government departments and agencies, and within non-government organisations. He also contributes to university teaching in these fields and co-supervision of PhD candidates.
Qualifications
BA(Hons) (Monash), MPH (Melb), PhD (Monash)
Research by Brian Vandenberg
Gambling participation, experience of harm and community…
AGRC recently asked Australian adults about their participation in gambling, attitudes towards wagering advertising, how exposure to advertising influences their…
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Gambling participation and experience of harm in Australia
This snapshot explores how often Australians gamble, how much they spent, their risk of gambling harm, what products they spent gambling money on and how concerned…
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Community attitudes towards sports and race betting…
Overall, this snapshot finds that 69% of Australian adults think that sports and race betting advertising is too common. The snapshot explores the impact of such…
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