Associate Professor Louise Freebairn
Investigator, Leadership Executive
EMAIL [email protected]
Associate Professor Louise Freebairn is a member of the Prevention Centre’s Leadership Executive and Director, Knowledge Translation and Health Outcomes, Epidemiology Section, at ACT Health. She also holds an Adjunct Associate Professor affiliation with the National Centre of Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University and the Menzies School for Health Policy at the University of Sydney.
Her research interests include building capacity to co-produce knowledge and using evidence to guide policy decision-making with an emphasis on participatory dynamic simulation modelling. She has worked with health services in the ACT and NSW since 1997 in several areas including clinical psychology, health services planning and epidemiology.
Associate Professor Freebairn is currently managing a Prevention Centre research project that is using big data and dynamic simulation modelling to tackle child and adolescent overweight and obesity in Australia.
She has held a ministerial appointment to the ACT Children and Young People Death Review Committee since 2012 and was a member of the ACT Health Human Research Ethics Social Research Sub-committee from 2013 to 2015.
Associate Professor Louise Freebairn's projects
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Building a compelling case for prevention – Phase 1
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Gestational diabetes through a systems science lens
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Tackling childhood obesity with big data and dynamic simulation modelling
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Compelling case project – Phase 2
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Associate Professor Louise Freebairn's news and media
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Action needed on prevention and collaboration implementation research
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Impact of COVID-19 on the health and wellbeing of Australian adolescents
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Investigators’ Forum and the future of chronic disease prevention
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All About You: Using social media to engage youth and understand health behaviour
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Beyond mapping: how these models are bringing systems to life
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Associate Professor Louise Freebairn's resources
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Advanced modelling shows a 20% sugar-sweetened beverage tax is a best buy for reducing child obesity in Australia
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Research seminar: Harnessing system science to tackle child and adolescent overweight and obesity
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The Western Sydney Adolescent Health Study: A pilot study of behavioural factors associated with overweight and obesity
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PhD project: Turning the tide on hyperglycemia in pregnancy
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Preventing diabetes in pregnancy
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A ‘what if’ tool to better understand complex health problems
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Dynamic simulation modelling in brief
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