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Deakin Distinguished Professor

Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/Institute for Health Transformation

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Deakin Distinguished Professor
Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/Institute for Health Transformation

steven.allender@deakin.edu.au (opens in a new tab)

Geelong Waterfront Campus, 1 Gheringhap Street Geelong, Victoria 3220

Steve has an ongoing programme of research on solving complex problems with a focus on the burden of chronic disease.

Recent work has seen a particular interest in the burden of chronic disease, malnutrition and climate change in developed and developing countries and the possibilities for using complex systems approaches for community-based intervention.

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GRANT
Transformative synergies: Using Learning Health Systems for Chronic Disease Prevention
1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2029
People funded by this grant:
- Wolfenden L,
- Allender S
NHMRC Synergy Grants - 2036027 - $300,000.00
GRANT
Addressing Commercial Health-determinants: Indigenous Empowerment and Voices for Equity (ACHIEVE)
1 Oct 2024 - 30 Sep 2029
People funded by this grant:
- Paradies Y,
- Browne J,
- Sherriff S,
- Backholer K,
- Cubillo B
NHMRC TCR: Commercial determinants of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - 2035274 - $1,566,842.00
CONTRACT RESEARCH
Evaluation of the Healthy Supermarkets Latrobe project Reach for the Stars
15 Aug 2024 - 31 Dec 2025
People funded by this grant:
- Vargas C,
- Allender S
LaTrobe Community Health Services Ltd - $34,139.77
CONTRACT RESEARCH
Part 2: Support in the design and delivery of systems thinking workshops
1 Aug 2024 - 29 Nov 2024
People funded by this grant:
- Vargas C,
- Allender S
Latrobe Health Assembly - $30,000.00
GRANT
Department of Health Translational Research PhD Fellowship
1 Jul 2024 - 30 Jun 2028
People funded by this grant:
- Brown A,
- Allender S,
- Forrester-Bowling T
Department of Health - 30757-24 - $69,000.00
CONTRACT RESEARCH
Systems thinking and Group Model Building (GMB) workshop and on-boarding for use of the software tool STICKE for research projects
1 Jun 2024 - 1 Nov 2024
People funded by this grant:
- Vargas C,
- Allender S
Latrobe Health Assembly - $26,000.00
GRANT
Centre of Research Excellence in Food Retail EnvironmentS for Health: Next Generation (RE-FRESHING)
1 Feb 2024 - 31 Jan 2029
People funded by this grant:
- Cameron A,
- Sacks G,
- Scapin T,
- Pettigrew S,
- Ferguson M
NHMRC - Centres of Research Excellence - 2024716 - $2,500,000.00
CONTRACT RESEARCH
The evaluation of Vichealth's Food Hubs on local food systems.
20 Nov 2023 - 31 Mar 2026
People funded by this grant:
- Lindberg R,
- Reeve E,
- Wingrove K,
- Bolton K,
- Love P
VicHealth - OPP-28432 - $148,426.00
CONTRACT RESEARCH
Inhaler Project
Asthma Australia Ltd26 Oct 2023 - 30 Jun 2024
People funded by this grant:
- Forrester M,
- Allender S,
- Needham C,
- Perlen S,
- Hutchinson A
Asthma Australia Ltd - $50,000.00
GRANT
Systems Thinking with Active Implementation Research (STAIR) to prevent childhood obesity: an effectiveness-implementation trial
1 Aug 2023 - 31 Jul 2028
People funded by this grant:
- Bell C,
- Whelan J,
- Allender S,
- Wolfenden L,
- Nichols M
NHMRC - Partnership Project - 2023737 - $1,406,917.90
GRANT
Systems Thinking with Active Implementation Research (STAIR) to prevent childhood obesity: an effectiveness-implementation trial
1 Aug 2023 - 31 Jul 2028
People funded by this grant:
- Bell C,
- Whelan J,
- Allender S,
- Wolfenden L,
- Nichols M
VicHealth - NHMRC Partnership Project Grants - $100,000.00
CONTRACT RESEARCH
TransformUs Wellbeing
17 Jul 2023 - 29 Aug 2025
People funded by this grant:
- Strugnell C,
- Salmon J,
- Lander N,
- Booth A,
- Bolton K
VicHealth - OPP-27626 - $228,000.00
CONTRACT RESEARCH
Collaborating for Health: Grampians Public Health Unit and Deakin University Partnership.
26 Jun 2023 - 30 Jun 2026
People funded by this grant:
- Robinson S,
- Allender S,
- Peeters A,
- Savira F,
- Randall S
Grampians Health - $200,000.00
CONTRACT RESEARCH
LPHU SYSTEMS THINKING PARTNERSHIP
26 Jun 2023 - 28 Feb 2024
People funded by this grant:
- Allender S,
- Felmingham T,
- Fraser P,
- Needham C
VicHealth Grant - Research - OPP-28123 - $74,000.00
CONTRACT RESEARCH
Denmark Child Co-Op
15 Dec 2022 - 31 Dec 2024
People funded by this grant:
- Allender S,
- Brown A,
- Hayward J,
- Felmingham T,
- Needham C
Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus University Hospital - $62,921.55
CONTRACT RESEARCH
An evidence-based framework to support integrated mental health, alcohol and other drugs (MHAOD) care services in Western Victoria.
2 Nov 2022 - 30 Apr 2025
People funded by this grant:
- Hutchinson A,
- Carolin R,
- Allender S,
- Peeters A,
- Miller P
Western Victoria Primary Health Network Limited - $65,000.00
CONTRACT RESEARCH
Southern Grampians and Glenelg Primary School Health Behaviours Monitoring Study 2023.
1 Nov 2022 - 30 Nov 2023
People funded by this grant:
- Strugnell C,
- Bolton K,
- Jackson M,
- Fraser P,
- Allender S
Western District Health Service - $102,241.00
GRANT
Promoting CHANGE (Community Health And Nutrition, and Government Engagement): a Randomised Controlled Trial to accelerate healthy food retail in local government settings
1 Sep 2022 - 30 Nov 2027
People funded by this grant:
- Blake M,
- Cameron A,
- Peeters A,
- Ananthapavan J,
- Romaniuk H
NHMRC - Partnership Project - 2015440 - $1,169,876.49
CONTRACT RESEARCH
'' Making big business everybody's business ''
20 Jun 2022 - 6 Dec 2024
People funded by this grant:
- Browne J,
- Lock M,
- Backholer K,
- Paradies Y,
- Allender S
VicHealth - OPP-25151 - $199,930.00
GRANT
Review of, and update, the Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Overweight and Obesity for Adults, Adolescents and Children in Australia.
8 Jun 2022 - 30 Jun 2026
People funded by this grant:
- Salmon J,
- Peeters A,
- Porter J,
- Maddison R,
- Allender S
National Health and Medical Research Council - RFQ Health/21-22/792 - $1,914,402.42
GRANT
DELIVER: Delivering Enhanced heaLthcare at home through optImising Virtual tools for oldEr people in Rural and regional Australia
1 Mar 2022 - 31 Dec 2026
People funded by this grant:
- Aras D,
- Peeters A,
- Versace V,
- Wilding C,
- Chapman W
MRFF (DISER) Rapid Applied Research Translation - RARUR000072 - $5,620,293.00
CONTRACT RESEARCH
Connecting the Dots Phase Two: VLGP Module
VicHealth1 Feb 2022 - 31 Oct 2023
People funded by this grant:
- Hayward J,
- Allender S,
- Strugnell C,
- Whelan J,
- Bolton K
VicHealth - $1,537,867
CONTRACT RESEARCH
Group Model Building: a collaborative, multi-stakeholder approach to reduce potentially avoidable visits to the Emergency Department.
1 Jul 2021 - 31 Jul 2023
People funded by this grant:
- Shee AW,
- Versace V,
- Namara KM,
- Allender S,
- Alston L
Ballarat Health Services - $48,036.00
CONTRACT RESEARCH
The Pregnancy Research and Translation Ecosystem (PRT-E)
1 Jul 2021 - 31 Dec 2024
People funded by this grant:
- Vuillermin P,
- Allender S,
- Hutchinson A,
- Sweet L,
- Versace V
Western Alliance - $258,619.70
GRANT
Healthy and sustainable cities: tool for assessing local government food policy
25 Jun 2021 - 28 Feb 2023
People funded by this grant:
- Sacks G,
- Cameron A,
- Blake M,
- Reeve B,
- Allender S
VicHealth Impact Research Grant - FR-4966 - $100,000.00

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