Professor Freya MacMillan is Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research, within the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research, Enterprise and International) at Western Sydney University. She is also deputy director of the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Translational Research Unit (DOMTRU), an Executive member and lead of the prevention working group in the Maridulu Budyari Gumal Sydney Partnership for Health, Enterprise, Research & Education (SPHERE) Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Clinical Academic Group, an Implementation Science Leader Panel Member in the SPHERE Implementation Science Platform and is an International Union for Health Promotion and Education registered Health Promotion Practitioner in Australia.
Freya is a health promotion and diabetes prevention intervention expert. She uses her community engagement, mixed-methods and implementation science expertise to develop, evaluate and translate interventions into sustainable practice for the prevention of diabetes and promotion of health and wellbeing. 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.
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