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mwake@unimelb.edu.au

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Position
Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

Prof Melanie Wakefield

Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

390 Scholarly works
5 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Impact of health-oriented marketing claims on young adults’ alcohol product perceptions, hypothetical consumption, and beliefs: a randomized experiment
    DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agaf061
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Tobacco packaging littering behaviours among Australian adults who smoke: findings from cross-sectional and observational studies to inform the implementation of cigarette pack inserts
    DOI: 10.1136/tc-2023-058542
  • 2025

    Journal article

    ‘You Can Sort of Justify Having That Drink’: Australian Young Adults' Perspectives on the Appeal and Influence of ‘Better for You’ Alcohol Products
    DOI: 10.1111/dar.70001
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Misperceptions About the Effectiveness of Cutting Down and Low-Rate Daily Smoking for Reducing the Risk of Tobacco-Caused Harm
    DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntae263
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Tobacco package health warnings about product manipulations: An experimental study among Australian adults who smoke
    DOI: 10.1093/heapro/daae210
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Australian adolescents' knowledge of smoking harms and misperceptions about tobacco products: a cross-sectional study
    DOI: 10.1136/tc-2024-059083
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Testing public communications about tobacco product bans: An online experiment with Australian adults who smoke
    DOI: 10.1136/tc-2025-059383
Melanie Wakefield

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    The Effects of Filter Ventilation and Expanded Tobacco on the Tar, Nicotine and Carbon Monoxide Yields from Cigarettes Sold in Australia
    DOI: 10.3390/ijerph22010050
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Evaluation of the population-level impacts of the LiveLighter® obesity prevention campaign from 2012 to 2019 based on serial cross-sectional surveys
    DOI: 10.1186/s12889-024-18462-5
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Virtue Marketing: Trends in Health-, Eco-, and Cause-Oriented Claims on the Packaging of New Alcohol Products in Australia Between 2013 and 2023
    DOI: 10.15288/jsad.23-00376

RECENT PROJECTS

  • Research Grant

    Platypus
  • Research Grant

    Narrative Social Influence: Narrative Communication as an Effective Means of Public Health Campaign
  • Research Grant

    Narrative Social Influence: Narrative Communication as an Effective Means of Public Health Campaign
  • Research Grant

    Epidemiology of Chronic Disease, Health Interventions and DNA Studies
  • Research Grant

    Epidemiology of Chronic Disease, Health Interventions and DNA Studies

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