Professor Luke Wolfenden

Prof Wolfenden is a health promotion practitioner, behavioural (health promotion) and implementation scientist. He is Director of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Implementation for Community Chronic Disease Prevention, Co-Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Non-Communicable Diseases Program Implementation and is on the leadership executive of the $18 million NHMRC funded Australian Prevention Partnership Centre. He has a co-appointment and is responsible for provision of chronic disease prevention services at Hunter New England Local Health District. Prof Wolfenden’s research seeks to reduce community chronic disease through policy evidence syntheses; trials of interventions to reduce chronic disease risks; and testing strategies to increase adoption and implementation and scale-up of evidence-based interventions.