Adrienne O’Neil
Behaviour Change, Medical Research, Epidemiology, Equity, Trauma
Specialty Areas
Ageing, Health and Medical, Relationships, Science, Technology and Innovation, Sociology, Women’s Safety
About Me
Dr Adrienne O’Neil is a Senior Research Fellow & Heart Foundation Future Leader at the Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne. Dr O’Neil leads a research program dedicated to investigating the interplay between mental health and the cardiovascular system, with a focus on depression, trauma, gendered violence and stress in both the onset and trajectory of CVD. In addition to her epidemiological and behavioural medicine research and teaching activities, she is a provisional Men’s Behaviour Change Practitioner which sees her working with groups of men who use family violence. In 2014, she completed a post doctorate at Stanford University’s Laboratory of Behavioral Science where she focused on ways to harness digital technologies to improve the management of heart disease and common co-morbidities like mental disorders. Dr O’Neil currently has over 90 publications and approx 3 million dollars of NHMRC, Heart Foundation and other funding, including Category 1 personnel funding from 2009-2021.
Qualifications
BA (Hons) (Psychology, Sociology)Grad Cert (Male Family Violence)
PhD (Public Health)
