Rate My Professor Amy Anderson

Dr Amy Anderson serves as Honorary Associate Lecturer in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle. She earned her PhD and Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) from the University of Newcastle. Throughout her career as a Senior Research Officer, she has concentrated on health behaviour research, with her PhD and postdoctoral experiences centered on understanding and addressing alcohol use during pregnancy. A significant portion of her work draws from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health, investigating health risk factors such as alcohol use, tobacco use, overweight and obesity, and violence against women. Anderson employs quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods in her research. In her current role at the Centre for Women's Health Research, she focuses primarily on survey development for the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health.

Her research expertise encompasses antenatal health behaviours, particularly alcohol use in pregnancy, health behaviours, public health guideline adherence, predictors of negative health behaviours, women's health, and longitudinal survey development. She has contributed as an investigator to grants totaling $57,500, including a 2020 project titled 'Integrated approaches for domestic and family violence, mental health issues and alcohol and other drugs misuse' funded by The Sax Institute ($32,500) and a 2013 grant 'A life course perspective on the identification of risk factors for low birth weight' from the Hunter Medical Research Institute ($25,000). Key publications include 'Long-Term Adoption of Health Promotion Policies and Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care in New South Wales, Australia: A Repeat Cross-Sectional Study' (Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 2026), 'Examining Changes in Implementation of Priority Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Practices, and Related Barriers, Over Time in Australian Early Childhood Education and Care Services: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study' (Childhood Obesity, 2025), 'Predictors of alcohol use during pregnancy in Australian women' (Drug and Alcohol Review, 2022), 'Alcohol-related risk from pre-loading and heavy episodic drinking (HED) among a cohort of young Australian women: a cross-sectional analysis' (Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2020), and 'Nudge strategies to improve healthcare providers' implementation of evidence-based guidelines, policies and practices: a systematic review of trials included within Cochrane systematic reviews' (Implementation Science, 2020).