Associate Professor Louise Freebairn

Investigator, Leadership Executive

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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.

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The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre is funded by the NHMRC, Australian Government Department of Health, ACT Health, Cancer Council Australia, NSW Ministry of Health, Wellbeing SA, Tasmanian Department of Health, and VicHealth. The Australian Government also contributed through the Medical Research Future Fund. Queensland Health became a financial contributor in 2022. The Prevention Centre is administered by the Sax Institute.

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