Dr. Kypros Kypri

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University of Newcastle
Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
School of Medicine & Public Health
National Health & Medical Council Research Fellow / Senior Research FellowAppointed: 2004
University of Otago
Department of Preventive & Social Medicine
Injury Prevention Research Unit
Research Associate
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Mailing Address

School of Medicine & Public Health
University of Newcastle
Callaghan, NSW 2308
Australia

Contact Information

Phone: +61249138231
Fax: +61249138148
kypros.kypri@newcastle.edu.au

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of Otago, Public Health, 2003.
BA (Hons 1), University of Otago, Psychology, 1998.

Expertise and Research Interests

I am a behavioural scientist interested in the evaluation of interventions to reduce unhealthy alcohol use and other risk behaviours. I have expertise in a range of areas:

1. The design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials of behaviour change interventions;

2. Quasi-experimental evaluations of policy interventions;

3. Web-based survey methods.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Injury Prevention.

Additional Terms:

Alcohol, E-Health, Methodology, Policy.

Memberships

Research Society on Alcoholism

Honors and Awards

2009, Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence, University of Newcastle
2009, Dan Anderson Research Award, Hazelden Foundation, Butler Center for Research, Addiction
2006-2007, Gladys Brawn Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Newcastle, Australia
2006, Giordis Postdoctoral Research Award, Research Society on Alcoholism (USA)
2006, IVO Award (Addiction Research Institute Rotterdam), The Netherlands
2004, Early Career Investigator Award, Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and Drugs
2004, Young Investigator Award, International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcohol
2000-2002, Health Research Council of New Zealand Postgraduate Scholarship, Injury Prevention Research Unit
2000, John Dobson Memorial Scholarship, National Addiction Centre (New Zealand)
2000, John O'Hagen Prize, National Addiction Centre (New Zealand)
1999, Postgraduate Scholarship, Harold Richardson Trust
1998, Kippenberger Memorial Postgraduate Scholarship, Returned Servicemen's Association

Previous Positions

1998-2004, Research Fellow, University of Otago, Injury Prevention Research Unit

Funding Received

  • Australian Research Council - Discovery Project Grant: Experimental studies of the effects of the research process on participant behaviour, $178,000, 2010 to 2012.
  • Australian Research Council - Discovery Project Grant: Can parents teach their children to drink alcohol responsibly? Or, is one drop a drop too many?, $760,000, 2010 to 2014.
  • Alcohol Education & Rehabilitation Foundation - Innovative Project Grant: Sources of alcohol for teenage binge drinking, $19,165, 2010 to 2011.
  • Alcohol Education & Rehabilitation Foundation - Innovative Project Grant: Modification and piloting of a web-based electronic screening and brief intervention (e-SBI) to reduce unhealthy drinking among hospital outpatients, $12,391, 2010 to 2011.
  • National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) - Australia: Reducing the injury and disease burden attributable to alcohol: methodological, aetiological and intervention studies, $370,000, 2009 to 2012.
  • Lottery Health Research Grant (NZ): Alcohol outlet accessibility, area deprivation, and adult drinking patterns, $21,464, 2009 to 2010.
  • Scientific Visits to Europe Program: Investigation of performance biases in clinical trials of health behaviour interventions, $9,500, 2009 to 2010.
  • Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand: National trial of proactive web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention for university students, $392,892 [Contract], 2009 to 2011.
  • National Drug Policy Discretionary Fund: Evaluation of the Campus Watch community intervention, $72,300, 2008 to 2009.
  • Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand: Gender and Alcohol: an International Study, $35,000, 2008 to 2009.
  • Hunter Medical Research Institute: Liquor industry sponsorship at Australian universities, $18,882, 2006 to 2007.
  • University of Otago Research Grant: Gender, drinking patterns and alcohol-related harm, $50,000, 2006 to 2007.
  • Maurice and Phyllis Paykal Trust: Alcohol industry sponsorship of sport: Estimates of prevalence and association with drinking levels, $8,500, 2006 to 2007.
  • Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation: Web-based alcohol and tobacco intervention, $314,000, 2006 to 2008.
  • Dunedin School of Medicine Distinguished Researcher Fund: Geospatial aspects of alcohol-related harm in New Zealand, $150,000, 2005 to 2007.
  • Health Research Council of NZ and Alcohol Advisory Council of NZ: Modifiable environmental determinants of hazardous drinking, $932,000, 2004 to 2007.
  • National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: Evaluation of the 1999 reduction in the New Zealand drinking age, $253,000, 2004 to 2006.
  • National Heart Foundation of New Zealand: Computerised assessment and personalised feedback to enhance preventive healthcare, $15,000, 2003 to 2003.
  • Health Research Council of NZ and Alcohol Advisory Council of NZ: Hazardous Drinking Project, $576,000, 2001 to 2004.
  • Health Research Council of NZ and Alcohol Advisory Council of NZ: Early intervention for young hazardous drinkers: Preliminary investigations, $12,000, 2000 to 2000.
  • Dean's Bequest Fund, Dunedin School of Medicine: Tertiary student drinking behaviours and attitudes toward alcohol, $5,000, 2000 to 2001.

Publications

  • Moss AC, Dyer KR, Albery IP, Allsop S, Kypri K, Erskine J, Mackintosh D (Feb 2010) Alcohol pharmacokinetics, decision making and folk wisdom: A reply to Moxnes and Jensen (2009)., Drug and alcohol dependence Abstract
  • Kypri K, Langley JD, Connor J (Jan 2010) ALCOHOL IN OUR LIVES: A once-in-a generation opportunity for liquor law reform in New Zealand., Drug and alcohol review, 29 (1), 1-4 Abstract
  • McGee R, Williams S, Kypri K (Jan 2010) College students' readiness to reduce binge drinking: Criterion validity of a brief measure., Drug and alcohol dependence Abstract
  • Kypri K, O'Brien K, Miller P (Dec 2009) Time for precautionary action on alcohol industry funding of sporting bodies., Addiction (Abingdon, England), 104 (12), 1949-50 Abstract
  • Hay GC, Whigham PA, Kypri K, Langley JD (Dec 2009) Neighbourhood deprivation and access to alcohol outlets: A national study., Health & place, 15 (4), 1086-93 Abstract
  • Paschall MJ, Grube JW, Kypri K (Nov 2009) Alcohol control policies and alcohol consumption by youth: a multi-national study., Addiction (Abingdon, England), 104 (11), 1849-55 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Hallett J, Howat P, McManus A, Maycock B, Bowe S, Horton NJ (Sep 2009) Randomized controlled trial of proactive web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention for university students., Archives of internal medicine, 169 (16), 1508-14 Abstract
  • McCambridge J, Kypri K, Attia J, Elbourne D (Jul 2009) Re: Promoting regular mammography screening I. A systematic assessment of validity in a randomized trial., Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 101 (14), 1029-30; author repl Abstract
  • Miller PG, Kypri K, Chikritzhs TN, Skov SJ, Rubin G (Jun 2009) Health experts reject industry-backed funding for alcohol research., The Medical journal of Australia, 190 (12), 713; discussion 714 Abstract
  • Wolfenden L, Kypri K, Freund M, Hodder R (Jun 2009) Obtaining active parental consent for school-based research: a guide for researchers., Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, 33 (3), 270-5 Abstract
  • Hay G, Kypri K, Whigham P, Langley J (Jun 2009) Potential biases due to geocoding error in spatial analyses of official data., Health & place, 15 (2), 562-7 Abstract
  • Foxcroft DR, Kypri K, Simonite V (May 2009) Bayes' Theorem to estimate population prevalence from Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) scores., Addiction (Abingdon, England) Abstract
  • Kypri K, Davie G, Langley J, Voas R, Begg D (May 2009) The Utility of Routinely Collected Data in Evaluating Important Policy Changes: The New Zealand Alcohol Purchasing Age Limit Example., American journal of public health Abstract
  • McCambridge J, Kypri K, Elbourne DR (May 2009) A surgical safety checklist., The New England journal of medicine, 360 (22), 2373-4; author reply Abstract
  • Miller P, Kypri K (May 2009) Why we will not accept funding from Drinkwise., Drug and alcohol review, 28 (3), 324-6 Abstract
  • Chikritzhs TN, Dietze PM, Allsop SJ, Daube MM, Hall WD, Kypri K (Mar 2009) The "alcopops" tax: heading in the right direction., The Medical journal of Australia, 190 (6), 294-5 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Paschall MJ, Langley J, Baxter J, Cashell-Smith M, Bourdeau B (Feb 2009) Drinking and alcohol-related harm among New Zealand university students: findings from a national Web-based survey., Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research, 33 (2), 307-14 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Lee N (Jan 2009) New technologies in the prevention and treatment of substance use problems., Drug and alcohol review, 28 (1), 1-2 Abstract
  • Hallett J, Maycock B, Kypri K, Howat P, McManus A (Jan 2009) Development of a Web-based alcohol intervention for university students: processes and challenges., Drug and alcohol review, 28 (1), 31-9 Abstract
  • O'Brien KS, Kypri K (Dec 2008) Alcohol industry sponsorship and hazardous drinking among sportspeople., Addiction (Abingdon, England), 103 (12), 1961-6 Abstract
  • O'Brien KS, Hunter J, Kypri K, Ali A (Nov 2008) Gender equality in university sportspeople's drinking., Drug and alcohol review, 27 (6), 659-65 Abstract
  • Cousins K, Kypri K (Sep 2008) Alcohol advertising in the New Zealand university student press., Drug and alcohol review, 27 (5), 566-9 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Bell ML, Hay GC, Baxter J (Jul 2008) Alcohol outlet density and university student drinking: a national study., Addiction (Abingdon, England), 103 (7), 1131-8 Abstract
  • Langley J, Kypri K, Cryer C, Davie G (Mar 2008) Assessing the validity of potential alcohol-related non-fatal injury indicators., Addiction (Abingdon, England), 103 (3), 397-404 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Langley JD, Saunders JB, Cashell-Smith ML, Herbison P (Mar 2008) Randomized controlled trial of web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention in primary care., Archives of internal medicine, 168 (5), 530-6 Abstract
  • O'Brien KS, Hunter J, Kypri K, Ali A (Mar 2008) Gender equality in university sportspeople's drinking., Drug and alcohol review, 1-7 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Paschall MJ, Maclennan B, Langley JD (Nov 2007) Intoxication by drinking location: a web-based diary study in a New Zealand university community., Addictive behaviors, 32 (11), 2586-96 Abstract
  • Cashell-Smith ML, Connor JL, Kypri K (Nov 2007) Harmful effects of alcohol on sexual behaviour in a New Zealand university community., Drug and alcohol review, 26 (6), 645-51 Abstract
  • Karam E, Kypri K, Salamoun M (May 2007) Alcohol use among college students: an international perspective., Current opinion in psychiatry, 20 (3), 213-21 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Langley JD, Saunders JB, Cashell-Smith ML (Jan 2007) Assessment may conceal therapeutic benefit: findings from a randomized controlled trial for hazardous drinking., Addiction (Abingdon, England), 102 (1), 62-70 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Dean JI, Stojanovski E (Jan 2007) Parent attitudes on the supply of alcohol to minors., Drug and alcohol review, 26 (1), 41-7 Abstract
  • Kypri K, McManus A, Howat PM, Maycock BR, Hallett JD, Chikritzhs TN (2007) Ingredient and nutrition information labelling of alcoholic beverages: do consumers want it?, The Medical journal of Australia, 187 (11-12), 669 Abstract
  • Kypri K (2007) Methodological issues in alcohol screening and brief intervention research., Substance abuse : official publication of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse, 28 (3), 31-42 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Cunningham JA (2007) Self-help interventions for problem drinking, In P Watkins & G Clum, editors, Handbook of Self-Help Therapies, New York, Lawrence Erlbaum (bookchapter)
  • Paschall MJ, Kypri K, Saltz RF (Sep 2006) Friday class and heavy alcohol use in a sample of New Zealand college students., Journal of studies on alcohol, 67 (5), 764-9 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Donaldson A, Johnstone E (May 2006) The physical inactivity matrix: lessons from the classification of physical inactivity interventions., Journal of science and medicine in sport / Sports Medicine Australia, 9 (1-2), 98-102 Abstract
  • Langley J, Kypri K (Apr 2006) Politics can be deadly., Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, 12 (2), 69-70 Abstract
  • Cunningham JA, Selby PL, Kypri K, Humphreys KN (Mar 2006) Access to the Internet among drinkers, smokers and illicit drug users: is it a barrier to the provision of interventions on the World Wide Web?, Medical informatics and the Internet in medicine, 31 (1), 53-8 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Voas RB, Langley JD, Stephenson SC, Begg DJ, Tippetts AS, Davie GS (Jan 2006) Minimum purchasing age for alcohol and traffic crash injuries among 15- to 19-year-olds in New Zealand., American journal of public health, 96 (1), 126-31 Abstract
  • Langley J, Kypri K (2006) Regarding New Zealand Medical Association's position on the minimum purchase age for alcohol., The New Zealand medical journal, 119 (1234), U1994; author reply Abstract
  • Cunningham JA, Humphreys K, Kypri K, van Mierlo T (2006) Formative evaluation and three-month follow-up of an online personalized assessment feedback intervention for problem drinkers., Journal of medical Internet research, 8 (2), e5 Abstract
  • Langley J, Kypri K (2006) More on alcohol and youth. Has the NZMA demonstrated that it is not a credible source of advice to Parliament?, The New Zealand medical journal, 119 (1238), U2091 Abstract
  • McAnally H, Kypri K (2006) Alcohol and road safety behaviour, In I Kandel , J Merrick & L Sher, editors, Adolescence and alcohol: An international perspective, London, Freund (bookchapter)
  • Kypri K, Stephenson S, Langley J, Cashell-Smith M, Saunders J, Russell D (Oct 2005) Computerised screening for hazardous drinking in primary care., The New Zealand medical journal, 118 (1224), U1703 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Stephenson S (Sep 2005) Drink-driving and perceptions of legally permissible alcohol use., Traffic injury prevention, 6 (3), 219-24 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Cronin M, Wright CS (May 2005) Do university students drink more hazardously than their non-student peers?, Addiction (Abingdon, England), 100 (5), 713-4 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Sitharthan T, Cunningham JA, Kavanagh DJ, Dean JI (May 2005) Innovative approaches to intervention for problem drinking., Current opinion in psychiatry, 18 (3), 229-34 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Langley J, Stephenson S (2005) Episode-centred analysis of drinking to intoxication in university students., Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire), 40 (5), 447-52 Abstract
  • Kypri K, McAnally HM (2005) Randomized controlled trial of a web-based primary care intervention for multiple health risk behaviors., Preventive medicine, 41 (3-4), 761-6 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Dean J, Kirby S, Harris J, Kake T (Jan 2005) 'Think before you buy under-18s drink': evaluation of a community alcohol intervention., Drug and alcohol review, 24 (1), 13-20 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Saunders JB, Williams SM, McGee RO, Langley JD, Cashell-Smith ML, Gallagher SJ (Nov 2004) Web-based screening and brief intervention for hazardous drinking: a double-blind randomized controlled trial., Addiction (Abingdon, England), 99 (11), 1410-7 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Gallagher SJ, Cashell-Smith ML (Oct 2004) An internet-based survey method for college student drinking research., Drug and alcohol dependence, 76 (1), 45-53 Abstract
  • Mcgee R, Kypri K (Aug 2004) Alcohol-related problems experienced by university students in New Zealand., Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, 28 (4), 321-3 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Stephenson S, Langley J (Apr 2004) Assessment of nonresponse bias in an internet survey of alcohol use., Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research, 28 (4), 630-4 Abstract
  • Hunter JA, Kypri K, Stokell NM, Boyes M, O'Brien KS, McMenamin KE (Mar 2004) Social identity, self-evaluation and in-group bias: the relative importance of particular domains of self-esteem to the in-group., The British journal of social psychology / the British Psychological Society, 43 (Pt 1), 59-81 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Baxter J (Mar 2004) Smoking in a New Zealand university student sample., The New Zealand medical journal, 117 (1190), U794 Abstract
  • Saunders JB, Kypri K, Walters ST, Laforge RG, Larimer ME (Feb 2004) Approaches to brief intervention for hazardous drinking in young people., Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research, 28 (2), 322-9 Abstract
  • McAnally HM, Kypri K (2004) Alcohol and road safety behaviour among New Zealand tertiary students., International journal of adolescent medicine and health, 16 (3), 229-37 Abstract
  • Langley JD, Dow N, Stephenson S, Kypri K (Dec 2003) Missing cyclists., Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, 9 (4), 376-9 Abstract
  • Langley JD, Kypri K, Stephenson SC (Nov 2003) Secondhand effects of alcohol use among university students: computerised survey., BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 327 (7422), 1023-4 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Langley JD (Nov 2003) Perceived social norms and their relation to university student drinking., Journal of studies on alcohol, 64 (6), 829-34 Abstract
  • Kypri K (Oct 2003) Maori/non-Maori alcohol consumption profiles: implications for reducing health inequalities., The New Zealand medical journal, 116 (1184), U643 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Gallagher SJ (2003) Incentives to increase participation in an Internet survey of alcohol use: a controlled experiment., Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire), 38 (5), 437-41 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Saunders JB, Gallagher SJ (2003) Acceptability of various brief intervention approaches for hazardous drinking among university students., Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire), 38 (6), 626-8 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Chalmers DJ, Langley JD, Wright CS (Mar 2002) Adolescent injury morbidity in New Zealand, 1987-96., Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, 8 (1), 32-7 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Langley JD, McGee R, Saunders JB, Williams S (2002) High prevalence, persistent hazardous drinking among New Zealand tertiary students., Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire), 37 (5), 457-64 Abstract
  • Kypri K, McGee R, Saunders JB, Langley JD, Dean JI (2002) Interpretation of items in the AUDIT questionnaire., Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire), 37 (5), 465-7 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Chalmers DJ, Langley JD (2002) Adolescent injury mortality in New Zealand and opportunities for prevention., International journal of adolescent medicine and health, 14 (1), 27-41 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Chalmers DJ, Langley JD, Wright CS (Jun 2001) Child injury morbidity in New Zealand, 1987-1996., Journal of paediatrics and child health, 37 (3), 227-34 Abstract
  • Kypri K, Chalmers DJ, Langley JD, Wright CS (Oct 2000) Child injury mortality in New Zealand 1986-95., Journal of paediatrics and child health, 36 (5), 431-9 Abstract
  • Hunter JA, Platow MJ, Bell LM, Kypri K, Lewis CA (Dec 1997) Intergroup bias and self-evaluation: domain-specific self-esteem, threats to identity and dimensional importance., The British journal of social psychology / the British Psychological Society, 36 ( Pt 4), 405-26 Abstract

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