Professor Helen Skouteris

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Professor Helen Skouteris is a developmental psychologist and expert in health behaviour change and women’s and children’s health, especially in relation to obesity prevention.

Professor Skouteris works in implementation research and evaluation projects focused on improving health and developmental outcomes for women, children and adolescents. Her current research is around building active capacity in ‘the consumer’ to make healthy lifestyle choices across preconception, pregnancy, preschool, and childhood, including adolescence, to reduce the burden of obesity.

Her work has also been focused extensively in community service and educational sector improvement – research that is critical to transforming policy across these sectors and translating to better health outcomes for children, young people, adults and families.

Professor Skouteris is Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Health in Preconception and Pregnancy (CRE HiPP), one of the CREs that contributes to the Collaboration for Enhanced Research Impact.

Professor Helen Skouteris's projects

Using health promotion to reduce the burden of obesity before and in pregnancy

Project Status: completed

Professor Helen Skouteris's news and media

Professor Helen Skouteris's resources

The first 2000 days: Giving our kids the best start for a healthier life

Resource category: Podcasts

Date 15 Aug 2022
Research seminar: Effective interventions to support healthy lifestyle prior to conception and during pregnancy

Resource category: Videos

Date 21 Jun 2022
Peer-supported lifestyle interventions in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Resource category: Videos

Date 12 May 2022
CRE HiPP Showcase webinar 2021

Resource category: Videos

Date 24 Nov 2021

Professor Helen Skouteris's projects

Using health promotion to reduce the burden of obesity before and in pregnancy

Professor Helen Skouteris's news and media

Systemic approaches needed to address wide-ranging inequities affecting women’s health

The global view of obesity

International Congress on Obesity (ICO) Melbourne Oct 18-22

Preconception health international conference presentations

The building blocks of prevention in the first 2000 days

August Chronicle newsletter

#Prevention2022 Wrap

The value of prevention: lifestyle interventions may be a cost-effective way to support healthy pregnancies

Collaborating nationally for chronic disease prevention

NHMRC funding success for prevention researchers

CERI expands with three further Centres of Research Excellence

Language matters: pregnancy and overweight or obesity

Why we are stronger together

Time to tackle obesity, another threat to global health and wellbeing

The power of working together: Research centres join forces in major new platform for prevention

Healthy lifestyle modules embedded in Monash University midwifery degree

Online portal to support women’s healthy lifestyles around pregnancy in the workplace

Meet Professor Helen Skouteris

Professor Helen Skouteris's resources

The first 2000 days: Giving our kids the best start for a healthier life

Research seminar: Effective interventions to support healthy lifestyle prior to conception and during pregnancy

Peer-supported lifestyle interventions in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis

CRE HiPP Showcase webinar 2021

Professor Helen Skouteris's publications

Ethnic differences in preferences for lifestyle intervention among women after childbirth: A multi-methods study in Australia

Using intervention mapping to develop a workplace digital health intervention for preconception, pregnant, and postpartum women: The Health in Planning, Pregnancy and Postpartum (HiPPP) portal

`It’s just the nature of the work’: Barriers and enablers to the health and well-being of preconception, pregnant and postpartum working women in a community service organisation

Postpartum women’s preferences for lifestyle intervention after childbirth: A multi-methods study using the TIDieR Checklist

Assessing patterns of change in lifestyle behaviours by parity: a longitudinal cohort study

Setting preconception care priorities in Australia using a Delphi technique

Preconception health in the workplace: An opportunity to support equitable access to education

Identifying and dismantling racism in Australian perinatal settings: Reframing the narrative from a risk lens to intentionally prioritise connectedness and strengths in providing care to First Nations families

A comparison of the cost-effectiveness of lifestyle interventions in pregnancy

Weight stigma and obesity-related policies: A systematic review of the state of the literature

The role of midwives and obstetrical nurses in the promotion of healthy lifestyle during pregnancy

Workplace Healthy Lifestyle Determinants and Wellbeing Needs across the Preconception and Pregnancy Periods: A Qualitative Study Informed by the COM-B Model

Economic evaluation methods used in home-visiting interventions: A systematic search and review

Maternal obesity prevention: The Health in Preconception, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Early- and Mid-Career Researcher Collective

Interventions improving health professionals’ practice for addressing patients’ weight management behaviours: systematic review of reviews

Co-designing preconception and pregnancy care for healthy maternal lifestyles and obesity prevention

Practice nurses and providing preconception care to women in Australia: a qualitative study

Preconception women’s views of promoting preconception women’s health in Australia

Defining preconception: exploring the concept of a preconception population

Cost Effectiveness of Antenatal Lifestyle Interventions for Preventing Gestational Diabetes and Hypertensive Disease in Pregnancy

Preconception and antenatal knowledge and beliefs about gestational weight gain

Student midwives’ intention to deliver weight management interventions: A theory of planned behaviour & self-determination theory approach