Mental Health First Aid

Dr Shurong Lu, or Sharon, is an epidemiologist and biostatistician in mental health and chronic diseases. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for Mental Health within the University of Melbourne. Sharon’s research focuses on population mental health promotion, particularly for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and for people with chronic diseases. She has recently been working on the evaluation of the teen Mental Health First Aid program through an NHMRC-funded 5-year randomised controlled trial, namely the TeenAID trial.