Professor Jodie Dodd 

Professor Jodie Dodd 

Professor Jodie Dodd is an Australian clinical academic Obstetrician, Medical Director of Women’s and Babies Division, Maternal Fetal Medicine subspecialist, current NHMRC Investigator Fellow at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Adelaide and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

Jodie is a recognised leader in randomised trials of dietary and lifestyle interventions to reduce the impact of overweight and obesity on pregnancy, birth and child outcomes including the LIMIT and Optimise Trials. Her work demonstrates that whilst improvements can be made in diet quality and physical activity, gestational weight gain and pregnancy, birth and child outcomes are not improved. Currently she leads a large RCT, the Begin Better Randomised Trial, examining lifestyle intervention prior to pregnancy.