Professor Brian Oldenburg (B.Sc, MPsychol, PhD) is Chair of the Non-Communicable Disease Unit in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne; he is also the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Implementation Research and Prevention and Control of NCD’s. His research program focuses on how to reduce chronic disease risk and how to improve health care delivery and chronic disease self-management for people with chronic conditions.
His research outputs have been widely adapted and tailored to the needs of disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, including Indigenous Australians. Over the least 5 years he has also been at the forefront globally of developing new technology platforms and mHealth interventions to improve chronic disease outcomes in both high income and developing countries. His research program is very active in India, China and other countries in Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa. He is very well networked with program implementers, public health researchers and policy-makers throughout South Asia and China. He has undertaken recent work for WHO related to NCDs in developing countries, for example, he was the senior author of a WHO monograph, “A practical guide for implementation research to improve the prevention & control of NCDs”. He has almost 300 peer reviewed papers and has presented at over 65 conferences in the last 5 years, including many invited plenaries at international conferences. He is the co-chair of the Prevention Group for the Lancet Commission on Policy and System Approaches to Reduce the Global Burden of Diabetes-related Morbidity. Professor Oldenburg currently also serves on International Advisory Boards for research trials being undertaken in China, South Asian countries and Finland. He has led the establishment of the Implementation Science Training Program for the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases and has delivered training programs in more than 10 countries over the last 5 years. He is a co-editor of a recently published textbook, “Principles and Concepts of Behavioural Medicine: A Global Handbook” (Springer, 2018).
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FEATURED Journal article
Effectiveness of a scalable group-based education and monitoring program, delivered by health workers, to improve control of hypertension in rural India: A cluster randomised controlled trial.
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
NHMRC "Ten of the best research projects, 2011"
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Public Health Recognition Award
Award for Outstanding Contribution
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Positions
Chair Of Non-Communicable Disease Control
Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health
Invited Member
UK Faculty of Public Health
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Public Health Association Australia
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American Public Health Association
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Australian Health Promotion Association
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Australian Society for Behavioural Health and Medicine
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United States Society of Behavioural Medicine
Education
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
University of New South Wales
MASTERS OF PSYCHOLOGY
University of New South Wales
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
University of New South Wales