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Monash University

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Monash University was established in Melbourne, Australia in 1958 and is now a global university with a presence on four continents. Monash has achieved an enviable national and international reputation for research and teaching excellence in a short 50 years, ranked in the top one per cent of world universities, and in the top 40 universities worldwide for clinical, pre-clinical and health sciences. The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences is Monash University’s largest research faculty and a leading provider of healthcare education in Australia. The Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation (MCHRI) within the Monash School of Public Health is a leading Centre on implementation science, healthcare improvement and scale up. The Centre works closely with stakeholders and is a living lab embedded with formal partnerships with the largest health service in the country.

The team’s main role in the Bump2Baby and Me project is to lead work package 1 and support activities based on evidence synthesis and secondary research. Monash is also the clinical lead for the RCT’s Australian site and will be contributing to most tasks within work packages 3 to 6.

Professor Helena Teede

Principal Invesigator (PI) and WP1 Leader

Helena is a clinician and academic leader. She is an endocrinologist with a focus on women's metabolic and reproductive health through mechanistic, clinical, health services and public health research into practice and policy. She is strongly committed to broad stakeholder engagement in health reform and service innovation and is passionate about research and evidence translation into health care to improve health outcomes. Helena holds leadership roles across health care, research and policy including as the Director of Monash Centre for Health Research Implementation, School of Public Health Monash University, an Endocrinologist at Monash Health and Executive Director of Monash Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. She is also a member of the Victorian Clinical Council. Her role in Bump2Baby and Me is as leader for work package 1.

Dr Cheryce Harrison

Research Team

Cheryce is an early career academic who is also a qualified exercise physiologist, and health coach. She has a strong track record in healthy lifestyle research across clinical, health services and public health research. She leads health coaching services embedded into routine clinical care for obese women at Australia’s largest health service and has co-designed and delivered multiple lifestyle RCTs with over 1000 reproductive aged women. Cheryce co-leads the healthy lifestyle research and translation program at the Monash Centre for Health Research Implementation, School of Public Health Monash University. Her work is focused on low intensity lifestyle interventions for reproductive ages women.

Associate Professor Jacqueline Boyle

Research Team

Jacqueline is a clinician, obstetrician, and academic. She is the only obstetrician with a PhD (in clinical research) also trained in public health (Masters in PH) nationally with expertise in pregnancy health including obesity, gestational weight gain, healthy lifestyle interventions and gestational diabetes. She is integrated as a leader in antenatal care and in policy. She is a recognised expert and leader in culturally and linguistically diverse groups and in indigenous health and has considerable expertise in stakeholder engagement. She is the deputy Director of Monash Centre for Health Research Implementation, School of Public Health Monash University, an Obstetrician at Monash Health and chair of the women’s health theme of Monash Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre.

Dr Georgia Soldatos

Research Team

Georgia is a clinician, health service leader and an endocrinologist with a PhD in diabetes. She brings expertise in this area as deputy director of Monash Health diabetes unit, running the diabetes in pregnancy services caring for 2000 affected women each year. Her interest is in implementation research and she holds an appointment in the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation, School of Public Health Monash University. She is also the Deputy Medical program director at Monash Health.