Core expertise
Women's health
Endocrinology
PCOS
Gestational weight gain
Biography
Helena is a clinician, academic and leader. She's an endocrinologist with a focus on women's metabolic and reproductive health through mechanistic, clinical, health services and public health research into practice and policy. She's strongly committed to broad stakeholder engagement in health reform and service innovation, and is passionate about research and evidence translation into healthcare to improve health outcomes.
Helena's research interests focus on women's health during the reproductive years, and on obesity and its endocrine, reproductive and metabolic complications – PCOS, infertility, pregnancy complications, gestational diabetes and diabetes.