Focus on behaviour

The public health and well being group includes a team of behavioural scientists with core expertise across psychology (clinical, cognitive, and applied), human behaviour change, and evidence translation and implementation. Our behavioural scientists are experts in understanding the key drivers of human health behaviour and use this understanding to develop evidence-based tools and programs that support long-term behaviour change that translates into improved health outcomes across the lifespan. The team works collaboratively across areas including community tools and interventions, clinical trials, mental health, eHealth technologies (Apps & Wearable Devices), lifestyle behaviours and dietary intake.

 

We also lead the development of novel scientific tools to predict and change health behaviours. These tools have been validated for a range of contexts and population subgroups.

• Novel survey tools to measure scientific constructs.
• Tailored health solutions such as the CSIRO ‘Diet Type’ tool that categorises users into five different diet types (e.g. the Foodie, the Craver, or the Thinker) based on their responses to questions about their attitudes, barriers, and triggers for eating behaviour. Diet Types have been successfully integrated into our broader diet tools including The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet Online.
• Unique databases that categorise the tastes, textures, and flavour intensity of nearly 400 foods present in the Australian diet (see Sensory-Diet Database).
• Translating theory, observations, and evidence into practice to achieve community impact (e.g. working directly with consumers to co-design digital health solutions with maximal translation potential).
• Responding quickly to emerging trends and disruptions to health and lifestyle (e.g. large-scale evaluation of the COVID-19 pandemic on lifestyle and emotional well being).

 

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