Biography summary
Claudia Strugnell is a Reseach Fellow within the Global Obesity Centre (GLOBE), a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention at Deakin University. Claudia's research centres around the umbrella of child and adolescent obesity; with a particular focus on community-based systems interventions, physical activity, sedentary behaviour, diet quality, body composition, sleep behaviours and wellbeing among youth.
Claudia is currently the Director of Monitoring and Co-Stream Leader of the Obesity and Risk Factor Monitoring Stream within GLOBE. In this position, Claudia has focussed on the establishement of low cost, routine, high participatory and measured childhood obesity and risk factor monitoring systems among school-children. Key projects include the Healthy Together Victoria and Childhood Obesity study, the Whole of System Trial of Prevention Strategies for childhood obesity: WHO STOPS childhood obesity study and the RESPOND: Reflexive Evidence and Systems Interventions to Prevent Obesity and Non-Communicable Disease study.
Research interests
Child and adolescent physical activity, sedentary behaviour and diet quality
Child and adolescent overweight and obesity and central obesity
Socio-cultural influences on physical activity and sedentary behaviour participation and dietary intake
Whole of community systems interventions to prevent childhood obesity
Teaching interests
Claudia has been involved in teaching several units at the undergraduate and post-graduate level in the areas of obesity prevention, physical activity and nutritional assessment. In 2013, Claudia was the Honours Co-Course Leader in the School of Health and Social Development.
Publications
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Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Healthy Together Kids Evaluation
Prof Steven Allender, Dr Claudia Strugnell, Dr Lynne Millar
NHF Vanguard Grant - National Heart Foundation of Australia
- 2014: $74,812
RESPOND: Reflexive Evidence and Systems interventions to Prevent Obesity and Non-Communicable Disease
Prof Steven Allender, Dr Claudia Strugnell, Prof Boyd Swinburn, Dr Melanie Nichols, Prof Anna Peeters, Dr Andrew Bell, Prof Marj Moodie, Prof Liliana Orellana
NHMRC - Partnership Project
- 2021: $198,368
- 2020: $305,461
- 2019: $247,775
- 2018: $85,145
Other Public Sector Funding
RESPOND: Reflexive Evidence and Systems interventions to Prevent Obesity and Non-Communicable Disease
Prof Steven Allender, Dr Claudia Strugnell, Prof Boyd Swinburn, Dr Melanie Nichols, Prof Anna Peeters, Dr Andrew Bell, Prof Marj Moodie, Prof Liliana Orellana
- 2020: $25,000
- 2019: $25,000
- 2018: $25,000
Food environment inequalities and obesity in Victorian Growth Areas, from paddock to shopping centre gate
Dr Claudia Strugnell, Prof Steven Allender, A/Prof Gary Sacks, Prof Liliana Orellana, Mrs Cindy Needham
- 2020: $7,254
- 2019: $90,000
- 2018: $90,000
Campbelltown Changing our Future: A whole of systems approach to childhood obesity in south western Sydney
Prof Steven Allender, Mr Andrew Brown, Dr Josh Hayward, Dr Claudia Strugnell, Mr Nic Crooks
- 2019: $42,248
- 2018: $252,248
Food swamps, deserts or swampy deserts? Do regional Victorian children have access to healthy food retail? Does this influence weight status, dietary intake and wellbeing
Dr Claudia Strugnell, Mrs Cindy Needham, Prof Liliana Orellana, Prof Steven Allender, Dr Miranda Blake, Ms Jane Jacobs, A/Prof Gary Sacks
- 2021: $90,000
Industry and Other Funding
Greater Shepparton's Primary School Health Behaviours Monitoring Proposal
Dr Claudia Strugnell, Prof Steven Allender
- 2016: $29,755
RESPOND: Reflexive Evidence and Systems interventions to Prevent Obesity and Non-Communicable Disease
Prof Steven Allender, Dr Claudia Strugnell, Prof Boyd Swinburn, Dr Melanie Nichols, Prof Anna Peeters, Dr Andrew Bell, Prof Marj Moodie, Prof Liliana Orellana
- 2019: $22,500
- 2018: $22,500
Evaluation of the amended Victorian Achievement Program for schools - Pilot study of outcomes for teachers
Prof Anna Peeters, Prof Liliana Orellana, Prof Tony LaMontagne, Ms Melanie Nichols, Dr Claudia Strugnell, Dr Victoria Brown, Mr Nic Crooks
- 2020: $85,000
- 2019: $92,000
- 2018: $40,000
Childhood Advocacy Monitoring Project
Dr Claudia Strugnell, Mr Nic Crooks, Prof Steven Allender
- 2018: $174,831
Translate a community-based and 'systems informed' childhood obesity intervention.
Dr Claudia Strugnell, Prof Steven Allender, Dr Melanie Nichols, Prof Anna Peeters, Prof Colin Bell, Prof Marj Moodie, Prof Liliana Orellana, Dr Josh Hayward, Mr Andrew Brown
- 2019: $70,000
- 2018: $70,000
Effectiveness of health promotion interventions delivered by local councils for healthy eating, physical activity, alcohol harm prevention and smoking cessation.
Prof Anna Peeters, A/Prof Kathryn Backholer, Prof Catherine Bennett, Dr Claudia Strugnell, A/Prof Gary Sacks, A/Prof Adrian Cameron
- 2019: $75,000
Supervisions
Bridget Morrissey
Thesis entitled: CHILDHOOD OBESITY AND SLEEP: A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ISSUE
Doctor of Philosophy (Health & Social Development), School of Health & Social Development