ProfessorAdrienne O'Neil

Professor

Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation

  • Professor
    Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation
  • +61 3 522 73799 (Work)
  • HERB, Health, Education and Research Building (HERB), Level 1, 285 Ryrie Street, Geelong

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Knowledge Areas
Behavioural medicine; lifestyle interventions; epidemiology; public health;
health services; psychiatry; chronic disease; non communicable diseases;
gender/sex research.


GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Gut theRapy for the Alleviation of Chronic pElvic pain: The GRACE Trial
    1 Jan 2026 - 30 Nov 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    MRFF Novel Treatments and Management Strategies for Chronic Pain - 2044240 - $799,895.20
  • GRANT
    CALM-Kids: Co-design and evaluation of family-based lifestyle therapy versus placebo control for reducing child anxiety.
    1 Jul 2025 - 30 Jun 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    MRFF EPCDR Childhood Mental Health Research Grant - 2036091 - $998,924.41
  • GRANT
    Pathways of Influence through the Gut Microbiome in Post-Acute COVID-19 Sequelae: The RECOVERy Study
    1 Jun 2024 - 31 May 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    MRFF EPCDR - Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 - 2033283 - $996,923.80
  • GRANT
    HeartPath+: Targeting self-efficacy and health literacy through patient education to prevent recurrent heart events in Australians with heart disease
    1 Nov 2023 - 31 Oct 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cartledge S,
    • Beauchamp A,
    • Driscoll A,
    • O'Neil A,
    • Redfern J
    MRFF Consumer-Led Research - MRF2022907 - $36,693.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Dasman Diabetes Institute Geohealth Lab and Deakin University Collaboration.
    9 Aug 2023 - 10 Aug 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    Dasman Diabetes Institute - $4,090,030.00
  • GRANT
    Identifying and addressing barriers and enablers to implementing best-practice cardiac rehabilitation: the Quality Improvement in Cardiac Rehabilitation (QUICR) Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial
    1 Jun 2022 - 31 May 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Gallagher R,
    • Redfern J,
    • O'Neil A,
    • Brieger D,
    • Clark R
    MRFF Cardiovascular Health Grant - APP2016170 - $62,515.05
  • FELLOWSHIP
    Translating lifestyle-based mental health care into practice
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Adrienne O'Neil
    NHMRC - Investigator Grant - 2009295 - $1,567,933.24
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    MRFF Targeted Translation Research Accelerator Project: LISTEN (Low Intensity mental health Support via a Telehealth Enables Network for adults with diabetes and CVD): Effectiveness and scalability.
    1 Dec 2021 - 14 Feb 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Diabetes Australia - Vic - $28,800.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    MRFF Targeted Translation Research Accelerator Project: LISTEN (Low Intensity mental health Support via a Telehealth Enables Network for adults with diabetes and CVD): Effectiveness and scalability.
    1 Dec 2021 - 14 Feb 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    MTP Connect - $748,384.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    A Listening and Learning Healthcare System approach to improve outcomes for acute-care mental health consumers in the Barwon-Southwest Victoria Region.
    1 Jun 2021 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    Western Alliance - $197,613.00
  • GRANT
    Mental Health Australia General Clinical Trial Network (MAGNET)
    1 May 2021 - 30 Apr 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    MRFF Million Minds Mission Grant Opportunity - MRF2006296 - $11,998,907.76
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Evidence gaps advice on loneliness, social isolation and chronic conditions.
    1 Mar 2021 - 31 May 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    National Health and Medical Research Council - $32,128.90
  • GRANT
    Evaluating the effectiveness of lifestyle therapy versus standard psychotherapy for reducing depression in adults with COVID-19 related distress: The CALM trial
    1 Nov 2020 - 30 Apr 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    MRFF (NHMRC) - COVID-19 Mental Health Research Grant - MRF2005584 - $885,302.50
  • GRANT
    The development of the BUB (Bugs, Unborns and Bugs) mHealth program
    1 Sep 2020 - 31 Aug 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    Waterloo Foundation - Child Development - 2013-4237 - $132,088.78
  • GRANT
    Solving the long-standing evidence-practice gap associated with cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease (SOLVE-CHD)
    1 Mar 2020 - 28 Feb 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Redfern J,
    • Briffa T,
    • Gallagher R,
    • Jennings G,
    • Bauman A
    NHMRC Synergy Grants - APP1182301 - $550,180.67
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Lipid management for women following Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS): A narrative review of the sex-specific efficacy of lipid lowering pharmacotherapy in women.
    26 Jun 2019 - 25 Jun 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Adrienne O'Neil
    Her Heart Ltd - CONTR2019/01515 - $40,686.21
  • FELLOWSHIP
    Improving morbidity and mortality outcomes of patients with mental health symptoms following acute coronary syndrome (ACS)
    14 May 2019 - 7 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Adrienne O'Neil
    HF Future Leader Fellowship - Heart Foundation of Australia - 101160 - $178,000.00