Jason Ferris
Professor in Alcohol and Drug Epidemiology; Professorial Research Fellow and Affiliate of the Centre for Health Services Research at The University of Queensland
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Research Footprint
Jason Ferris appears in 5 tracked papers (2017–2023), most studied alongside LSD, Psilocybin and Ayahuasca, across Substance Use Disorders (SUD), Set & Setting and Anxiety Disorders.
Most-cited paper: Well-being, problematic alcohol consumption and acute subjective drug effects in past-year ayahuasca users: a large, international, self-selecting online survey (76 citations).
Frequent co-authors: Adam Winstock, James Rucker and Allan Young.
Background & Research
Jason Ferris is a Professor in Alcohol and Drug Epidemiology and the Director of Research and Statistical Support Services at The University of Queensland. He is also the Program Leader for the Global Substance Use and Mental Health unit and has served as Chief Data Scientist for the Global Drug Survey since 2013. His research background spans social science, public health, biostatistics, and alcohol and drug epidemiology, with a strong focus on population-level substance use trends and harm reduction.
Key Impact
He is a senior Global Drug Survey researcher whose work has helped document psychedelic use, harms, and self-treatment patterns in large international online surveys.
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The University of Queensland
The University of Queensland (UQ) is a public research university headquartered in Brisbane, Australia. Founded in 1909, it is one of Australia’s leading research and teaching institutions with multiple campuses and a strong international reputation.
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Global anonymous survey platform with explicit psychedelic-use and microdosing self-report outputs in periodic reports.
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