Professor Luke Wolfenden

Scientific Advisory Committee, CERI Steering Committee

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Professor Wolfenden is an NHMRC Fellow at the University of Newcastle, Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Evidence and NCD program implementation, and a member of the Prevention Centre’s Scientific Advisory Committee, having made a significant contribution to the field of implementation science for the prevention of chronic disease.

Luke is also Director of the National Centre of Implementation Science (NCOIS), one of the CREs that contributes to the Collaboration for Enhanced Research Impact (CERI). He was recognised in 2020 with a Sax Institute Research Action Award for his contribution to the prevention of overweight and obesity in Australian children.

Luke’s research addresses primary modifiable risks, including obesity, diet, physical inactivity, alcohol and tobacco use. Over the past five years his work has focused on trialling interventions to reduce modifiable chronic disease risks in the community; and trialling dissemination and implementation strategies to increase the adoption of evidence-based chronic disease prevention practices by organisations in the community.

Professor Luke Wolfenden's projects

Professor Luke Wolfenden's news and media

Professor Luke Wolfenden's resources

Implementing policies and programs in prevention

Resource category: Knowledge Syntheses

Date 28 Feb 2024
How do we improve preventive health care in pregnancy?

Resource category: Findings Brief

Date 21 Sep 2023
Seminar: How do we improve preventive health care in pregnancy?

Resource category: Videos

Date 27 Jun 2023
Improving care in pregnancy to address chronic disease risk factors

Resource category: Reports

Date 23 Jun 2023
Emerging Leaders Symposium workshop 2: The art of co-production

Resource category: Videos

Date 20 Jul 2022
Implementation & Scale Up Academic Debate

Resource category: Videos

Date 20 Aug 2021
Maternal health pathways

Resource category: Visuals

Date 06 Aug 2020
Ways to scale interventions in the community

Resource category: Findings Brief

Date 04 Feb 2018

Professor Luke Wolfenden's projects

Engaging maternity services to address smoking, alcohol consumption and weight gain in pregnancy

Public health law: making it work for the prevention of chronic disease

Implementation and scale up

Addressing chronic disease risk factors in people with mental illness

A sense of scale: Exploring ways to implement effective prevention

Understanding barriers to evaluating complex interventions

Scaling up public health interventions

Learning health systems approach to optimise implementation of prevention programs

Professor Luke Wolfenden's news and media

Introducing the Prevention Centre’s Scientific Advisory Committee

Synthesising our knowledge on implementation

Supporting the next generation of prevention leaders

Clearing the path on vaping evidence

July Chronicle newsletter

Action needed on prevention and collaboration implementation research

CERI expands with three further Centres of Research Excellence

You’ve heard of clinician scientists. We’re applying the same model to public health

Meet Professor Luke Wolfenden

Professor Luke Wolfenden's resources

Professor Luke Wolfenden's publications

Disseminating health research to public health policy-makers and practitioners: a survey of source, message content and delivery modality preferences

Development and application of the Scale-Up Reflection Guide (SRG)

Dissemination of public health research to prevent non-communicable diseases: a scoping review

School-level factors associated with the sustainment of weekly physical activity scheduled in Australian elementary schools: an observational study

Iterative delivery of an implementation support package to increase and sustain the routine provision of antenatal care addressing alcohol consumption during pregnancy: Study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster trial

A call to action: More collaborative implementation research is needed to prevent chronic disease

Exploring support provided by community managed organisations to address health risk behaviours associated with chronic disease among people with mental health conditions: a qualitative study with organisational leaders

Many Papers but Limited Policy Impact? A Bibliometric Review of Physical Activity Research

Scaling up population health interventions from decision to sustainability – a window of opportunity? A qualitative view from policy-makers

The Intervention Scalability Assessment Tool: a pilot study assessing five interventions for scalability

Intervention Scalability Assessment Tool: A decision support tool for health policy makers and implementers

Strategies for enhancing the implementation of school-based policies or practices targeting risk factors for chronic disease

Strategies to improve the implementation of healthy eating, physical activity and obesity prevention policies, practices or programmes within childcare services