Associate ProfessorHarriet Koorts

Associate Professor

Faculty of Health/Office of the Executive Dean Health/Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition

  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Health/Office of the Executive Dean Health/Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition
  • +61 3 924 46685 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Scaling interventions at a population level, systems approaches to implementation and scaling, implementation science and implementation evaluation.

Knowledge Areas:
Scaling
Implementation science
Systems approaches
Physical activity promotion
Public Health
Knowledge translation
Evaluation

Projects:
MRFF A nutrition and movement behaviour intervention for toddlers: efficacy, cost effectiveness and scale-up pathways, 2024-27. PI: Kylie Hesketh. Role: Chief Investigator

The Politics of Implementation and Scale up, 2023: PI Harriet Koorts

Applying systematic review search methods to the grey literature to examine local evidence of initiatives that support active recreation in Australia, 2023. PI: Jiani Ma. Role: Chief Investigator

Victorian Department of Education and Training. A toolkit for an active school, 2021. Role: Chief Investigator

MRFF (APP1199608): TeleFFIT - A personalized, telehealth exercise and lifestyle risk factor management program to reduce falls and fracture risk in older adults: A 12-month hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial, 2020. PI: Robin Daly. Role: Chief Investigator

NHMRC Partnership Project Grant (APP1161223): Evaluating real-world implementation of an evidence-based program addressing lifestyle behaviours from the start of life, 2020-22. PI: Karen Campbell. Role: Chief Investigator

NHMRC Ideas Grant (APP1162980): Maximising health trajectories through enhancement of movement behaviours from early life, 2019-24. PI: Kylie Hesketh Role: Chief Investigator

World Health Organization: WHO School physical activity and promotion guide and toolkit, 2018. Role: Chief Investigator

Sport and Recreation Victoria: A Systems dynamics approach to modelling physical activity (active recreation), 2018. Role: Principal
Investigator

ISBNPA Project Grant. Academic Barriers to Research Translation: An International Perspective, 2018. PI Harriet Koorts

Faculty of Health ResAarch Capacity Building Grant ScHeme (HAtCH), Deakin University: Scaling-up physical activity and nutrition interventions: What works? 2018 Role: Principal Investigator

Research for Educational Impact (REDI) Industry Collaboration Development Grant, Deakin University: Evaluating the feasibility and impact of incorporating movement integration strategies into Undergraduate pre-service teacher training, 2017. Role: Chief Investigator

NHMRC Partnership Project Grant (APP1115708). Scalability of Transform-Us! to reduce children's sitting and promote physical activity, 2016. PI: Jo Salmon. Role: Chief Investigator

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Leveraging implementation science and systems thinking for eating disorder risk reduction in primary schools
    1 Dec 2025 - 30 Nov 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    MRFF EPCDR Childhood Mental Health Research Grant - 2035802 - $711,819.40
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Leveraging implementation science and systems thinking for eating disorder risk reduction in primary schools
    MRFF1 Dec 2025 - 30 Nov 2027
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    A nutrition and movement behaviour intervention for toddlers: efficacy, cost effectiveness and scale-up pathways
    1 Mar 2024 - 29 Feb 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    MRFF Maternal Health and Healthy Lifestyles - MRF2031053 - $1,855,634.60
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Transform - Us ! Secondary Schools pilot
    4 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    DETVic Grant - Research - Department of Education and Training Victoria - $400,000.00
  • GRANT
    TeleFFIT - A personalized, telehealth exercise and lifestyle risk factor management program to reduce falls and fracture risk in older adults: A 12-month hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial
    1 Jun 2020 - 31 Aug 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Daly R,
    • Bennell K,
    • Scott D,
    • Ebeling P,
    • Maier A
    MRFF (NHMRC) Preventive and Public Health Research Grant - MRF1200913 - $1,393,504.50
  • GRANT
    Management of acute low back pain in hospital emergency departments: adherence to evidence-based guidelines
    30 Mar 2020 - 29 Mar 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Buntine P,
    • Belavy D,
    • Taylor N,
    • Miller C,
    • Owen P
    Eastern Health - $13,000.00
  • GRANT
    Evaluating real-world implementation of an evidence-based program addressing lifestyle behaviours from the start of life
    1 Dec 2019 - 30 Nov 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    NHMRC - Partnership Project - APP1161223 - $894,197.55
  • GRANT
    Evaluating real-world implementation of an evidence-based program addressing lifestyle behaviours from the start of life
    17 Apr 2019 - 30 Nov 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    VicHealth - NHMRC Partnership Project Grants - $150,000.00
  • GRANT
    Maximising health potential through enhancement of movement behaviours from early life
    1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    NHMRC Project Grant - APP1162980 - $1,743,960.63
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    WHO School physical activity and promotion guide and toolkit.
    20 Jun 2018 - 31 Aug 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    World Health Organisation - WHO - $26,988.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    A systems dynamic approach to modelling physical activity (active recreation).
    1 Jun 2018 - 30 Jun 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Health and Human Services - Victoria - $30,000.00
  • GRANT
    Scalability of the Transform-Us! study to reduce children's sitting and promote physical activity in Victorian primary schools
    1 May 2017 - 30 Apr 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    NHMRC - Partnership Project - APP1115708 - $571,794.40
  • GRANT
    Scalability of the Transform-Us! study to reduce children's sitting and promote physical activity in Victorian primary schools
    1 May 2017 - 30 Apr 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    VicHealth - NHMRC Partnership Project Grants - $150,000.00