Dr Keith Sutton is Lecturer in Rural Mental Health with Monash Rural Health. He has extensive experience in quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research in relation to mental health services, suicide prevention and health workforce in rural areas. Keith’s PhD, completed in 2016, examined the impact of a brief intervention designed to orientate allied health and nursing students, studying in Melbourne, to behavioural health sector employment and career opportunities in Gippsland, Victoria. Implications arising from his PhD and involvement on two national projects that explored health professional student rural placement experiences, informed his lead role in conceptualising, developing and implementing the Nursing and Allied Health Graduate Outcomes (NAHGOT) study. Keith is a Chief Investigator on prospective study led by Burnet Institute of people who use methamphetamine. The largest study of its kind in Australia, the study is exploring the natural trajectory of a community recruited of cohort of metropolitan and rurally based people who principally smoke methamphetamine on entry to the study.