Professor Freya MacMillan

Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor Research, Office of the DVC & VP, Research, Enterprise & Int

Biography

Dr Freya MacMillan is an Associate Professor in Interprofessional Health Sciences, based in the School of Health Sciences, a CI in the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Translational Research Unit (DOMTRU), an Executive member and lead of the prevention working group in the Sydney Partnership for Health, Enterprise, Research & Education (SPHERE) Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Clinical Academic Group and co-investigator of the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolic Health white paper group at Western.

Freya is a diabetes prevention and management expert. She uses her community engagement, mixed-methods and implementation science expertise to develop, evaluate and translate lifestyle interventions into sustainable practice. Dr MacMillan has strong expertise in combining qualitative and quantitative research methods to guide intervention development and for comprehensive and rigorous evaluation. Community engagement is at the core of her research. She co-creates programs with communities, healthcare workers and other professionals to develop innovative community-based and health service strategies. She has a particular focus on models incorporating peer support, that are more likely to be adopted and integrated long-term into practice for multi-cultural groups. 

Current industry partners include Local Health Districts, Primary Health Networks, Diabetes NSW & ACT, SPHERE and NSW Health. Her links within these networks and across DOMTRU, SPHERE and Western, provide multi-disciplinary collaborative opportunities to tackle diabetes.

Research Interests

• Peer support
  
• Diabetes
• Health Promotion
• Physical Activity
• Lifestyle behaviour change
• Implementation science

Qualifications and Recognition

• PhD University of Strathclyde (UK)
• BSc Dundee University

Research and Publications

https://research-report.uws.edu.au/wpubs/Portal.asp

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