Professor Teede is the Director of Monash Centre for Health Research Implementation, Monash University. and an Endocrinologist at Monash Health, who holds an Order of Australia for services to Women’s Health.
Helena has had an active 30 year clinical academic career supported by NHMRC fellowship funding.
Core interests focus on impact and equity through research and translation across:
- women’s health including PCOS, healthy pregnancy and menopause
- diabetes and metabolic health
- leadership and equity
- implementation science
- data driven healthcare improvement
- effective research translation
Prof Teede's work is underpinned by over 120 formal partnerships for implementation and impact. Research includes mechanistic, clinical, health services/ implementation and public health research and translation into practice and policy. She has established and leads an academic cross-disciplinary team of over 120 staff and students at the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation. This team works at the intersection of research, healthcare and education with a vision for Better Care, Better Equity for Better Health.
She is committed to broad stakeholder engagement in research and evidence translation with a passion for delivering equitable healthcare through research and translation.
Prof Teede has held leadership roles across healthcare, academic, NGOs and policy. She is or has been a member on multiple international and 13 national NHMRC committees including three principle committees, is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Australian and NZ College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and UK College of Obstetrics. She is a Fellow and Council member of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, is Past President of National and International Professional Societies and is the incoming President of the International Society of Endocrinology.
She is a strong advocate for advancing women in leadership in healthcare and research and leads the International “Advancing Women in Healthcare and Health and Medical Science” initiative with 22 partners and recurrent NHMRC funding.
She is dedicated to impact and equity, based on genuine partnership with the community, patients and carers in research and health service codesign and delivery. Her work reaches all 195 countries and has been awarded for international engagement.
She has had 55 PhD students and received the Monash University University Vice Chancellor award for supervision. She has established and runs leadership and healthcare improvement education and training programs with international reach.
Helena also holds honorary positions with both Warwick University and University of Birmingham and collaborates across 71 countries.
