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Melissa Oldham

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Principal Research Fellow and SSA Griffith Edwards Fellow

University College London

United Kingdom

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Recent Grants

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Evaluating and optimising mandatory health labels on alcohol including a world-first cancer warning

Open Date: 2025-10-01

Close Date: 2030-06-01

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Young people's consumption of no and low alcohol drinks in family settings

Open Date: 2025-01-01

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Alcohol use among people experiencing homelessness and access to substance use services in England: identifying treatment needs and policy options.

Open Date: 2024-09-01

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Understanding barriers to the use of alcohol-free and low-alcohol drinks to reduce alcohol consumption among individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

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Exploring drinkers’ perceptions of drinking contexts and developing a video intervention to increase risk perceptions and motivation to reduce alcohol consumption amongst increasing-and-higher-risk drinkers.

Open Date: 2024-04-01

Close Date: 2027-03-01

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Collaborators (19)

Lion Shahab

Professor of Health Psychology

University College London

UNITED KINGDOM

Melissa Oldham

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Articles (20)

People experiencing homelessness and their experiences with substance use services for alcohol treatment in England: Journey mapping based on semi‐structured interviews

Alcohol use and support receipt among people experiencing homelessness in England: a cross-sectional analysis with comparison to private household populations

Has alcohol consumption in England returned to pre‐COVID‐19 pandemic levels? A monthly population study, 2014 to 2024

Smoking and drinking among the Gypsy and Traveller communities: A population study in England

Modeling the Potential Health, Health Economic, and Health Inequality Impact of a Large-Scale Rollout of the Drink Less App in England

Evaluating the effectiveness of the Drink Less smartphone app for reducing alcohol consumption compared with usual digital care: a comprehensive synopsis from a 6-month follow-up RCT

Trends in alcohol-specific deaths in England, 2001–22: an observational study

Exploring othering and perceived harmful drinking contexts among risky drinkers: An arts‐based focus group study

Trends in use of alcohol-free or low alcohol drinks in attempts to reduce alcohol consumption in Great Britain, 2020-2024: a population-based study

Changing public perceptions of alcohol, alcohol harms and alcohol policies: A multi‐methods study to develop novel framing approaches

Smoking, and to a lesser extent non-combustible nicotine use, is associated with higher levels of alcohol consumption and risky drinking

Exploring public support for novel tobacco and alcohol control policies in Great Britain 2021–2023: A population-based cross-sectional survey

Cutting consumption without diluting the experience: Preferences for different tactics for reducing alcohol consumption among increasing-and-higher-risk drinkers based on drinking context

Effectiveness of a smartphone app (Drink Less) versus usual digital care for reducing alcohol consumption among increasing-and-higher-risk adult drinkers in the UK: a two-arm, parallel-group, double-blind, randomised controlled trial

Prevalence and characteristics of co-occurrence of smoking and increasing-and-higher-risk drinking

Brief interventions for smoking and alcohol associated with the COVID-19 pandemic

Evaluating the Acceptability of the Drink Less App and the National Health Service Alcohol Advice Web Page: Qualitative Interview Process Evaluation

Do engagement and behavioural mechanisms underpin the effectiveness of the Drink Less app?

Methodological Insights on Recruitment and Retention From a Remote Randomized Controlled Trial Examining the Effectiveness of an Alcohol Reduction App: Descriptive Analysis Study

Optimizing the Measurement of Information on the Context of Alcohol Consumption Within the Drink Less App Among People Drinking at Increasing and Higher Risk Levels: Mixed-Methods Usability Study

Collaborators (19)

Lion Shahab

Eileen Kaner

Elena Pizzo

John Holmes

Niamh Fitzgerald

Leonie Brose

Robyn Burton

Harry Tattan-Birch

Matthew Hickman

Matt Field

Jamie Brown

Sharon Cox

Claire Garnett

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Colin Robert Angus

Felix Greaves

Felix Naughton

Jennifer Beam Dowd

Laura Fenton

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