Professor Luke Wolfenden
CERI CRE Director
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 Leadership Executive.
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. He is Director of the National Centre of Implementation Science (NCOIS), one of the CREs that contributes to the Collaboration for Enhanced Research Impact.
He won a Sax Institute Research Action Award 2020 for his work.
Professor Luke Wolfenden's projects
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Engaging maternity services to address smoking, alcohol consumption and weight gain in pregnancy
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Public health law: making it work for the prevention of chronic disease
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Implementation and scale up
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Addressing chronic disease risk factors in people with mental illness
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A sense of scale: Exploring ways to implement effective prevention
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Understanding barriers to evaluating complex interventions
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Scaling up public health interventions
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Learning health systems approach to optimise implementation of prevention programs
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Professor Luke Wolfenden's news and media
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Synthesising our knowledge on implementation
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Supporting the next generation of prevention leaders
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Clearing the path on vaping evidence
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July Chronicle newsletter
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Action needed on prevention and collaboration implementation research
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CERI expands with three further Centres of Research Excellence
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You’ve heard of clinician scientists. We’re applying the same model to public health
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Meet Professor Luke Wolfenden
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Professor Luke Wolfenden's resources
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Implementing policies and programs in prevention
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How do we improve preventive health care in pregnancy?
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Seminar: How do we improve preventive health care in pregnancy?
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Improving care in pregnancy to address chronic disease risk factors
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Emerging Leaders Symposium workshop 2: The art of co-production
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Implementation & Scale Up Academic Debate
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Maternal health pathways
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Ways to scale interventions in the community
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