Background

Dr Alyce Wilson is a Public Health Registrar and Senior Research Officer working in global maternal, child health and nutrition. She is a medical doctor with additional qualifications in nutrition and dietetics, obstetrics and gynaecology and public health. Alyce is also a lecturer within the Department of Medical Education at the University of Melbourne and continues to work clinically at the Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne.

She is an advanced trainee of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (AFPHM), within the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and is currently undertaking a PhD examining the quality of maternal and child health systems in Papua New Guinea. Alyce has a broad range of experience in conducing translational and operational research, public health program design, implementation and policy development, within maternal, child health and nutrition programs in cross-cultural settings.

Appointments

• 2019 – present: PhD Candidate, Nossal Institute for Global Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
• 2019 – present: Affiliate lecturer, Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food, Monash University
• 2018 – present: Editorial Board Member, O&G Magazine, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
• 2018 – present: Australia/New Zealand Steering Committee Member, Need for Nutrition/Education Innovation Programme (NNEdPro), Cambridge University

Positions

• 2018 – current: Public Health Registrar and Senior Research Officer (Burnet Institute)
• 2018 – current: Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital Medical Officer (Royal Women’s Hospital)
• 2014 – current: Lecturer (Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne)
• 2017 – Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital Medical Officer (Monash Health)
• 2016 – Medical Intern (St Vincent’s Hospital, Fitzroy)
• 2014 – Research Officer (Preventable Chronic Diseases Department, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin)
• 2014/2015 – Research Officer (Indigenous Health Equity Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne)
• 2014 – Tutor (Nutrition Politics and Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne)
• 2013 - Public Health Nutrition Consultant (Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Monash University)
• 2012/2013 – Residential Tutor (Trinity College, University of Melbourne)
• 2012/2013 – Intern (Non-Communicable Diseases, World Health Organisation, Geneva Switzerland)
• 2011-2013 – Project Officer (Education and Training Unit, Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation)
• 2009/2010 - Senior Public Health Nutritionist and Remote Indigenous Stores and Takeaways Project Officer (Cairns Public Health Unit, Queensland Health, Cairns QLD)
• 2008/2009 – Community Nutritionist (Islanders Board of Industry and Service, Cairns and Torres Strait Islands)

Qualifications

• 2018 -Diploma of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
• 2018 – Master of Public Health, University of Melbourne
• 2015 – Doctor of Medicine, University of Melbourne
• 2008 – Bachelor of Health Sciences Honours, Deakin University
• 2007 – Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics, Monash University

Awards

• Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) John Flynn Scholar
• RL Simpson Elective Award in Public Health
• General Practice Students Network (GPSN) First Wave Scholar

Projects (6)

Current (6)

• Accelerating healthy agriculture and nutrition
  The overall objective of this multi-sectoral action is to create supportive conditions for enhanced household nutrition.
• Gender Counts
  A quantitative assessment of gender inequality and its impacts on children and adolescents in Asia and the Pacific.
• Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies
  A collaborative research program aimed at providing life-saving health care for women and children in PNG.
• HMHB - Health Services for Postnatal and Infancy Care
  Focuses on services during postnatal period and through the first 12 months in East New Britain, PNG.
• HMHB: Quality of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Newborn Health Services Study
  The ‘Gutpela Sevis’ study uses a participatory, partnership defined approach to improve care in East New Britain.
• Non-communicable diseases in adolescents in Indonesia
  An investigation of the burden of these diseases amongst Indonesian 16-18 year-olds.

Publications (10)

2017 (2)

• Traditional food availability and consumption in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, Australia.
  Ferguson M, Brown C, Georga C, Miles E, Wilson A, Brimblecombe J
  Aust N Z J Public Health. 2017 Jun; 41(3):294-298
• Low rates of predominant breastfeeding in hospital after gestational diabetes, particularly among Indigenous women in Australia.
  Chamberlain CR, Wilson AN, Amir LH, O'Dea K, Campbell S, Leonard D, Ritte R, Mulcahy M, Eades S, Wolfe R
  Aust N Z J Public Health. 2017 Apr; 41(2):144-150

2016 (1)

• Type 2 diabetes after gestational diabetes: greater than fourfold risk among Indigenous compared with non-Indigenous Australian women.
  Chamberlain CR, Oldenburg B, Wilson AN, Eades SJ, O'Dea K, Oats JJ, Wolfe R
  Diabetes Metab Res Rev. 2016 Feb; 32(2):217-227

2015 (1)

• Intergenerational differences in acculturation experiences, food beliefs and perceived health risks among refugees from the Horn of Africa in Melbourne, Australia.
  Wilson A, Renzaho A
  Public Health Nutr. 2015 Jan; 18(1):176-188

2013 (1)

• Nutrition and Diet in Indigenous Communities. (Book Chapter)
  Wilson A, Myers J, Arnot M, Sambo E, Ferguson M, Brimblecombe J, Browne J, Thorpe S, Stevets S
  in Indigenous Australians and Health (R. Hampton and M. Toombs eds) Oxford University Press . 2013 Jul; Chapter 10

2012 (1)

• Developing nutrition guidelines for recycled food to improve food security among homeless, asylum seekers and refugees in Victoria, Australia.
  Wilson A, Szwed N, Renzaho A
  Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition . 2012 Mar; 7(2-3):239-252

2010 (2)

• Towards understanding the new food environment for refugees from the Horn of Africa in Australia.
  Wilson A, Renzaho AM, McCabe M, Swinburn B
  Health Place. 2010 Sep; 16(5):969-7(5):969-976
• A child-eating nutritionist?
  Wilson A
  Aust J Rural Health. 2010 Feb; 18(1):45

2008 (1)

• Determinants of fruit and vegetable consumption among Sub-Saharan African migrants in Australia: Implications for Public Health
  Renzaho A, Wilson A
  International Fruit and Vegetable Alliance (IFAVA) Scientific Newsletter. 2008 Dec

2007 (1)

• Development of a healthy food basket for Victoria.
  Palermo C, Wilson A.
  Aust N Z J Public Health. 2007 Aug; 31(4):360-363

News Articles (4)

2019 (3)

• Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Update
• New Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies study begins
• A conversation on breastfeeding

2017 (1)

• Burnet excels in NHMRC funding