Professor Nicholas Glozier

Professor of Psychological Medicine
Psychiatry, Central Clinical School
Brain & Mind Research Institute

M02 - Mallet Street Campus
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

T: +61 2 9351 0536
F: +61 2 9351 0855
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Biographical details

Nick Glozier is interested in a range of mental health and disability issues particularly multimorbidity, psychosocial and work related disability research, stress, stigma and discrimination. He is a consultant psychiatrist and epidemiologist. He conducts work on diagnosis, measurement, assessment and instrument development in mental ill health and disability in range of cultural settings. He is an accredited trainer in the WHO CIDI instrument and was a consultant on the International Classification of Functioning and Health.

Research interests

Epidemiology, health services evaluation and clinical trials of interventions in people with mental disorders comorbid with physical health conditions e.g. sleep, cardiovascular and neurological conditions.

Both developed and developing settings.

Development of mental disorders in young adults.

Work stress and related psychiatric disability.

Teaching areas

Runs the Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine Programme at the Central Clinical School (RPA Hospital) in year 3 of the GMP.

Teaches on a range of courses in the Graduate Medical Program, pharmacy and public health

Current national competitive grants*

2012

A novel intervention targeting insomnia to prevent Major Depressive Disorder in the community
Christensen H, Glozier N, Griffiths K, Butler J
NHMRC Project Grant ($913,390 over 3 years)

2010

The burden of epilepsy study: Impact on well-being, service use and economic outcomes
Anderson C, Martiniuk A, Hackett M, Jan S, Glozier N, Somerville E, Lawson J, Bleasel A, Mohamed A
ARC Discovery Project ($248,000 over 4 years)

Sydney Epilepsy Incidence Study To Measure Illness Consequences (SEISMIC)
Anderson C, Sommerville E, Bleasel A, Martiniuk A, Glozier N, Lawson J, Jan S, Hackett M
NHMRC Strategic Award ($676,050 over 4 years)

2009

CCRE in Interdisciplinary Sleep Health
Grunstein R, Anderson C, Liu P, Cistulli P, Glozier N, Armour C, Robinson P, Marks G
National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Clinical Research Excellence ($2,500,000 over 6 years)

* Grants administered through the University of Sydney

International links

United Kingdom. (Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London Keele University) ongoing academic and grant collaborations.
Norway. (University of Bergen) Collaboration on a number of projects evaluating work related disability in behavioural conditions..
Sri Lanka. (Institute for Research and Development) Twin study and other psychiatric studies.