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Deakin University

Australiawww.deakin.edu.au

Deakin University, based in Victoria (Australia), is internationally recognised for its quality of research and teaching, and is in the top 1% of the world’s universities. Researchers from the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN- Dr Rachel Laws and Prof Karen Campbell) and the School of Medicine (A/Prof Vincent Versace) are contributing to this project. IPAN research is solutions focused and used in the development of nutrition- and physical activity-related policy as well as new programmes. Within Deakin’s School of Medicine is Deakin Rural Health – the Department where the research program of diabetes prevention led to the Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) study.

Deakin’s role in the project is to contribute to the development of the app (in particular the component focused on infant feeding and active play) and the analysis of the trial data.

Professor Karen Campbell

Principal Investigator (PI)

Karen is a Professor of Population Nutrition at IPAN. She has expertise in the areas of child and maternal obesity prevention and the design and evaluation of complex interventions. These include interventions to: promote healthy eating and active play from birth; reduce children’s sodium intake; and to promote healthy gestational weight outcomes. Public health utility is a key feature of all intervention design, as demonstrated by the state funded (Victoria) small-scale translation of the first of her RCT trialled interventions into the community. Karen now leads the state-wide scale up of this programme across Victoria in collaboration with 10 practice and policy partners funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council Partnership Grant. Her role in Bump2Baby and Me is to provide expert input into app content related to infant obesity risk behaviours.

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Dr Rachel Laws

Principal Investigator (PI)

Rachel is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health Nutrition at IPAN. Her research focuses on the development and translation of effective health promotion interventions into policy and routine service delivery. Her research has spanned both chronic disease prevention in both adults and children and in recent years has focused on obesity prevention in early life using novel and scalable interventions. This has included the use of mHealth and eHealth approaches. She currently co-leads a stream of research on the translation of evidence into policy and practice as part of the Centre of Research Excellence in the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood, as well as co-leading the community RCT intervention state-wide scale-up programme with Professor Campbell. Her role in the Bump project is to provide expert input into the specifications and content of the app in relation to infant obesity risk behaviours.

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Professor Vincent Versace

Principal Investigator (PI)

Vincent is an Associate Professor with the School of Medicine where he is Director of Deakin Rural Health (funded by the Australian Government Department of Health). He was trial statistician and Associate Investigator on the National Health and Medical Research Council funded Mothers After Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA) project that included an RCT of a postnatal diabetes prevention program. Also, part of this project was the first evaluation of a national GDM register. He has also been involved in research examining telephone delivery of a diabetes prevention program and quality improvement in general practice for diabetes prevention, both targeted at women with previous gestational diabetes. His role in Bump2Baby and Me is to provide analytical support of the RCT and other quantitative aspects of the project (WP6).

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