Our Role & Impact

Enabling the discoveries that ensure families are happy and healthy

Our Role & Impact
  1. Our Role & Impact
  2. RESEARCH PROJECTS FUNDED THROUGH HMRI
  3. Evaluation of a type 2 diabetes risk reduction program for women with recent gestational diabetes

Evaluation of a type 2 diabetes risk reduction program for women with recent gestational diabetes

Pregnancy is like a stress test, revealing a woman's long term risk to developing Type II Diabetes. Post delivery is the ideal time to address lifestyle risk factors but many women with gestational diabetes report a lack of support at this crucial time.

The team will use their collective expertise in nutrition, exercise physiology, diabetes manangement and e-health technologies to develop an internet delivered lifestyle program for women with gestational diabetes involving one on one video coaching with the hope that this program will help to reduce the longterm risks of developing type II diabetes.

Researchers 

Dr Megan Rollo, Professor Clare Collins, Dr Melinda Hutchesson, Professor Robin Callister

Research Area 
Cardiovascular
Project type 
Project Grant
Year of funding 
2016