Freya MacMillan

Prof Freya MacMillan is Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research, within the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research, Enterprise and International) at Western Sydney University. Freya is a health promotion intervention expert. She uses her community engagement, mixed-methods and implementation science expertise to develop, evaluate and translate health promotion and injury prevention interventions into sustainable practice for the prevention of diabetes, promotion of health and wellbeing and prevention of road injury/mortality. Dr MacMillan has strong expertise in combining qualitative and quantitative research methods to guide intervention development and for comprehensive and rigorous evaluation. Community engagement is at the core of her research. She co-creates programs with communities, healthcare workers and other professionals to develop innovative community-based and health service strategies.