Professor Petra Meier PhD (Manchester), MSc (Hertfordshire), Vordiplom (Heidelberg)

(Currently on Maternity Leave)

Section of Public Health
ScHARR
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield S1 4D

Office: Room 3027, 3rd Floor, Regent Court

Tel: (+44) (0) 114 222 0735
Fax: (+44) (0) 114 272 4095

email : p.meier@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

I studied psychology at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, before completing an MSc by Res in Child Health (University of Hertfordshire) and a PhD in Epidemiology & Health Sciences (University of Manchester).

I was a Lecturer in Psychology for two years after my doctorate, before joining the University of Sheffield in 2006 where I am now Professor of Public Health and Deputy Director of the Section of Public Health.

Research Interests

• Alcohol policies and their effectiveness, especially pricing, marketing and availability policies
• Determinants of substance use, misuse and addiction
• Substance misuse treatment evaluation and outcome
• Co-occurring mental health and substance misuse (dual diagnosis)
• Health inequalities

Teaching Interests

Course Director for the Europubhealth Erasmus Mundus Masters Programme.

I teach on the Research Methods module, run masterclasses on Substance Misuse for medical students and supervise MPH dissertations.

Professional Activities

I am an Assistant Editor of the journal Addiction and serve on the editorial board of Drugs: Education, Prevention, Policy. I regularly peer review for the major journals in my field and for grant-awarding bodies including the NIHR and ESRC.

Key Current Projects

• MRC: Interdisciplinary Alcohol policy effectiveness Research Programme (IARP), Nov 2010-Oct 2013, Principal Investigator. £1,100,000.
• CIHR: Alcohol price policy in Canada. Aug 2010-Jul 2014. Co-Investigator. CAN$ 450,000.
• NIHR: South Yorkshire CLAHRC Health Inequalities Strand. Co-investigator. 2009-13. £767,000.
• ESRC: MINA (Migration, Nutrition and Ageing across the lifecourse in Bangladeshi families: A transnational perspective) Jan 2009-Jan2011 Co-Investigator. £516,330.

Key Publications

• Schulte, S., Meier, P., Stirling, J.  (2011) Dual diagnosis clients' treatment satisfaction - a systematic review.  BMC Psychiatry 11, article no. 64.
• Meier, P.  (2011) Alcohol Marketing Research: The Need for a New Agenda.  Addiction 106(3):466-471.
• Meier, P. (2011)  Advertising research - calls for an even more ambitious agenda? Addiction 106(3):477-479.
• Meier, P.  (2011)  Small beer.  New Scientist 209(2797):22-23.
• Meier, P. (2010)  Polarized drinking patterns and alcohol deregulation.  NAT Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 27(5):383-408.
• Johnson M., Jackson, R., Guillaume, L., Meier, P., Goyder, E.  (2010)  Barriers and facilitators to implementing screening and brief intervention for alcohol misue:  a systematic review of qualitative evidence.  Journal of Public Health (Oxford) 17.
• Wilkins, L., Bissell, P., Meier P.  (2010)  Risky injecting practices associated with snowballing:  A qualitative study.  Drug and Alcohol Review 29(3):256-262.
• Barrowclough, C., Meier, P., Beardmore, R., Emsley R.  (2010) Predicting therapeutic alliance in clients with psychosis and substance misuse.  Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 198(5):373-377.
• Bogin, B., Thompson, J., Merrell, J., Meier, P., Heinrich, M., Garaj, V.  (2010)  Migration, nutrition and ageing across the lifecouse in Bangladeshi families:  A transitional perspective.  American Journal of Human Biology 22(2):248-248
• Meier, P.S., Brennan, A., Purshouse, P. (2010) Policy Options for Alcohol Price Regulation: The Importance of Modelling Population Heterogeneity. Addiction 105(3):383-393
• Purshouse, R., Meier, P., Brennan, A., Taylor, K., Rafia, R. (2010). Estimated effect of alcohol pricing policies on health epidemiological model. Lancet, 375(9723), 1355-64.
• Barrowclough, C., Meier, P., Beardmore, R., Elmsley, R. (2010). Predicting therapeutic alliance in clients with psychosis and substance misuse. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 198(5): 373-377.
• Schulte, S., Meier, P., Stirling, J., Berry, M. (2010). Dual diagnosis competency among addiction treatment staff: Training levels, training needs and the link to retention. European Addiction Research, 16:78-84.
• Meier, P., and Barrowclough, C. (2009) Mental health problems - are there or are they not a risk factor for dropout from drug treatment? A systematic review of the evidence. Drugs: Education, Prevention, Policy, 16(1): 7-38.
• Meier, P., Barrowclough, C. and Donmall, M. (2005) The role of the therapeutic alliance in the treatment of drug abuse: A critical review of the literature. Addiction 100, 304-316.