Cannabis Cohort Research Consortium (CCRC)
posted 24/03/2015
publication The University of New South Wales - Sydney, NDARC
Project Main Description
The Cannabis Cohort Research Consortium (CCRC) is a collaboration which stemmed from the need to better address pressing questions about the relationship between cannabis, other drug use, life-course outcomes and mental health in children and young adults. The CCRC is a multi-organisational and multi-disciplinary international collaboration of researchers which consists of highly experienced individuals with expert knowledge from across the disciplines of psychiatry, psychology, child and adolescent health, cannabis and other substance use, biomedicine, health and development, prevention, intervention and knowledge translation. The Consortium brings together researchers from some of the largest and most prolific longitudinal studies in the world. The CCRC aims to achieve its goals by involving partners in capacity building activities, and by providing capacity to allow collaborative work to proceed to high-level grant application stage. Collaboration between researchers involved in existing cohorts allows for better assessments of relationships to be made, uses existing data more efficiently and increases opportunities for knowledge translation. The cohorts involved are:
- The Australian Temperament Project (ATP)
- The Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS)
- The Mater Hospital and University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy (MUSP)
- The Personality and Total Health (PATH) Through Life Project
- The Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort Study (VAHCS)
- The Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study
