Prof. Jodie Dodd
Professor Obstetrics & Gynaecology, The University of Adelaide, Robinson Research Institute, South Australia
Professor Jodie Dodd is an obstetrician, maternal fetal medicine specialist and Practitioner Fellow at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital and a clinical researcher at the University of Adelaide. She leads a multi-disciplinary research group including students and is an international authority on obesity during pregnancy and early life approaches to obesity prevention.
Professor Dodd's research is driven to ensure that care for women and their infant’s is effective, and that treatment benefits outweigh harms. Randomised trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses remain the gold standard research methodology for establishing the effects of different forms of care.
Professor Dodd currently holds a NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship, and prior to that a Neil Hamilton Fairley Fellowship, which enabled post-doctoral work to be undertaken through the University of Toronto, Canada. She is editor for the Pregnancy and Childbirth Group of the Cochrane Collaboration and past Chair of the South Australian Maternal and Neonatal Clinical Network.
In recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field, Professor Dodd was awarded an L2 Investigator Grant from the NHMRC (2021-2025) for her project "Healthy diet and weight management in pregnancy: evidence to ease a hefty clinical burden".
