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Dr Sophie Dilworth

Dr Sophie Dilworth is a post-doctoral researcher with the Population Health Maternal Health Team at the University of Newcastle and Clinical Nurse Consultant with the Hunter New England Nursing and Midwifery Research Centre. Sophie’s clinical and research interests include the exploration of health system barriers and implementation of evidence-based practice change. Much of her work …
Angie Wilson

Angie Wilson is the Nursing and Midwifery Project Director Women’s and Children’s Division for the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, Flinders Medical Centre and previously Nursing and Midwifery Director for the Women’s and Children’s Hospital Adelaide. Angie is a senior clinical leader with extensive management, education and clinical experience in acute and community maternity services. …
Using system science to reveal and strengthen prevention in the Queensland public health system

Queensland Health is leading a new project that is using system science methods to uncover the many opportunities to strengthen and embed chronic disease prevention in the state’s public health system.
Pandemic spotlight on legislative approaches to public health

The community has never been more aware of how legislative changes impact their lives, such as public health orders implemented to respond to COVID-19. Outside a pandemic, legislation and policy change moves at a much slower and more complicated pace, explains Professor Katina D’Onise, Executive Director, Prevention and Population Health Directorate at Wellbeing SA.
Heather Dunnachie
Dr Simone De Morgan

Simone has over 25 years’ experience working in government and non-government organisations which informs her understanding of policy and practice settings and the importance of engagement and partnership for research impact. Since her appointment to the University of Sydney in 2018 as a policy and practice researcher at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and …
Christine Corby AM
Global impact to local action – top 5 lessons from driving systems change

This #PreventionWorksLIVE masterclass features one of Australia’s leading change-makers in chronic disease prevention, Dr Sandro Demaio, CEO of VicHealth, on his insights and top lessons on what it takes to create real and lasting systems change for public health.
Shared medical appointments for weight loss: a systematic review
CERI expands with three further Centres of Research Excellence

Our Collaboration for Enhanced Research Impact has expanded to enhance the profile and impact of chronic disease prevention research in Australia.