Professor Helena Teede AO

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Professor Helena Teede AO holds leadership roles across health care, research and policy including as Executive Director of Monash Partners Academic Health Research Translation Centre and Director of Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation, Monash University.

Professor Teede is passionate about research and evidence translation into health care to improve health outcomes. Her research interests focus on women’s health during the reproductive years and on obesity and its endocrine, reproductive and metabolic complications such as infertility, pregnancy complications, gestational diabetes and diabetes.

Professor Teede is Director of the Centre for Research Excellence in Women’s Health in Reproductive Life (CRE WHiRL), one of the CREs that contributes to the Collaboration for Enhanced Research Impact. She is also the pregnancy stream lead on the CRE Healthy lifestyle in Preconception and Pregnancy (CRE HiPP).

Professor Helena Teede AO's projects

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

Project Status: completed

Professor Helena Teede AO's news and media

Professor Helena Teede AO's resources

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

Resource category: Videos

Date 21 Jun 2022
Research seminar: ‘Breaking the Silence’ on Early Menopause

Resource category: Videos

Date 16 Mar 2022
A passion to address maternal and child obesity

Resource category: Podcasts

Date 10 Jan 2019

Professor Helena Teede AO

Professor Helena Teede AO's projects

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

Professor Helena Teede AO's news and media

Connections at the 2023 Preventive Health Conference

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

NHMRC funding success for prevention researchers

CERI expands with three further Centres of Research Excellence

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

Healthy lifestyle modules embedded in Monash University midwifery degree

Professor Helena Teede AO's resources

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

Research seminar: ‘Breaking the Silence’ on Early Menopause

A passion to address maternal and child obesity

Professor Helena Teede AO's publications

Implementation of Antenatal Lifestyle Interventions Into Routine Care

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

OptimalMe intervention for healthy preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum lifestyles: Protocol for a randomized controlled implementation effectiveness feasibility trial

Major concerns remain with gestational weight gain and pregnancy burden-reply

Clinical management of pregnancy in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: An expert opinion

Lactogenic hormones in relation to maternal metabolic health in pregnancy and postpartum: Protocol for a systematic review

Evaluating the development, woman-centricity and psychometric properties of maternity patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient-reported experience measures (PREMs): A systematic review protocol

Optimising cardiometabolic risk factors in pregnancy: A review of risk prediction models targeting gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders

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

Barriers to and enablers of type 2 diabetes screening among women with prior gestational diabetes: A systematic review update and qualitative synthesis applying the Theoretical Domains Framework

Association of antenatal diet and physical activity based interventions with gestational weight gain and pregnancy outcomes

Facilitators and barriers to behaviour change within a lifestyle program for women with obesity to prevent excess gestational weight gain: A mixed methods evaluation

The Healthy Pregnancy Service to Optimise Excess Gestational Weight Gain for Women with Obesity: A Qualitative Study of Health Professionals’ Perspectives

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

An evaluation of the impact of lifestyle interventions on body weight in postpartum women: A systematic review and meta-analysis

A systematic review and meta-analysis of intervention characteristics in postpartum weight management using the TIDieR framework: A summary of evidence to inform implementation