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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 372 6744
Email
joseph.boden@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor
Department
Department of Psychological Medicine (Christchurch)
Qualifications
BA MA PhD
Research summary
Longitudinal health studies

Research

Joe was trained as an experimental social psychologist and worked in the US, UK, and Australia, before coming to New Zealand. He is the Director of the Christchurch Health and Development Study.

He was awarded a UOC Gold Medal for Research Excellence in March 2017, and has recently been appointed by the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor tot he Expert Panel on Cannabis.

His research interests include:

  • The psychosocial causes and consequences of substance use, abuse, and dependence
  • Mental health and substance use epidemiology
  • The social and psychological determinants of maladaptive behaviour including aggression and violence

Publications

Foulds, J., Boden, J., Kerr, J., Douglas, K., Pettie, M., Young, J., … Porter, R. (2026). Long-term outcomes of adolescent attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms: A birth cohort study. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 60(2, Suppl. ), (pp. 209). doi: 10.1177/00048674261434785 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Rucklidge, J. J., Springer, G., Sherwin, A., Hale, T., Boden, J., & Mulder, R. T. (2026). Micronutrient effects in irritable neurodivergent youth: A secondary subgroup analysis of a randomised placebo-controlled trial (BEAM). Nutritional Psychiatry, 3, 100037. doi: 10.1016/j.nupsyc.2026.100037 Journal - Research Article

Rajapaksha, R. M. D. S., Wang, T., Ruberu, T. L. M., Boden, J. M., Choudhary, P. K., & Biswas, S. (2026). A Bayesian learning model for joint risk prediction of alcohol and cannabis use disorders. Statistics in Medicine, 45(15-17), e70656. doi: 10.1002/sim.70656 Journal - Research Article

Tanveer, S., Schluter, P. J., Porter, R. J., Boden, J. M., Beaglehole, B., Sulaiman-Hill, R., Dean, S., … Bell, C. (2026). Comparing the psychosocial impacts of COVID-19 in seven low- and middle-income countries: A cross-sectional study. PLOS Global Public Health, 6(6), e0005944. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0005944 Journal - Research Article

Rucklidge, J. J., Rucklidge, A., Mulder, R. T., Manna, L., & Boden, J. (2026). Treatment effects in micronutrient trial for adolescent irritability: Authors' reply. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2026.05.015 Journal - Research Other

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