Dr Charles Livingstone is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. He teaches health policy, sociology and politics into the Bachelor of Health Sciences degree. He is also head of the Gambling and Social Determinants unit within SPHPM. He has research degrees in economics and social theory. Charles's current principal research interest is critical gambling studies, including in particular gambling policy reform and the politics, regulation and social impacts of electronic gambling machine (EGM) gambling.

Charles is a co-convenor of the annual Dangerous Consumption colloquia, which he inaugurated in 2001. Charles is a regular contributor to public debate via popular media, in particular around issues such as the social impact of EGMs, their structural characteristics, and appropriate policy responses to address gambling harms. He is a current member of the World Health Organisation's Expert Group on Gambling and Gambling Disorder, and the Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling. He was a member of the Australian Government’s Ministerial Expert Advisory Group on Gambling 2010-2012.