Professor Teede has a strong focus on community and consumer involvment (CCI) and engagement in research and healthcare improvement. She established and leads the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation and is the recent past Executive Director of Monash Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. She established the MCHRI and the Monash Partners community involvement platforms, which undertakes reserach and supports researchers and the healthcare system, providing education, mentoring and support for partnershisp and consumer involvment. She leads research and translation nationally on CCI and is heading up the NHMRC and MRFF consultation on thier CCI policy. .  

She has completed significant training in leadership including a Williamson Community Leadership Fellowship and has codesigned, delivered and scaled Women in Leadership Capacity Building Programs for over a decade.

Her research is actively translated into guidelines and resources now actively accessed and supporting care in 126 countries internationally. 

Helena has formal media training and actively engages with print radio and TV media to promote awareness and better health.

Other contributions include as a Board member and Clinical Advisor to NGOs and patient advocacy groups. 

Professor Teede actively engages with community in her researhc, and health services redesign including in womens health. Her patient resources reach 186 countries and have been awarded for international engagement. 

Professor Teede's direct research interests focus on

- women's health during the reproductive years,

- metabolic health including obesity and its endocrine, reproductive and metabolic complications such as PCOS, infertility, pregnancy complications, gestational diabetes and diabetes

- implementation science and healthcare improvement 

- data driven healthcare improvement and Learning Health Systems 

- consumer involvment and partnerships 

- leadership and equity in healthcare and health and medical research 

She undertakes large scale international/nationally funded mechanistic, clinical research including randomised controlled trials and pragmatic implementation and health services research as well as public health research. She has a strong focus on translation of evidence into practice for health impact.

In healthcare improvement and implementation research and health service / systems innovation across different settings and populations. Her research has progressed from isolated efficacy studies to broader effectiveness, to leading NHMRC approved evidence based guidelines with active implementation and demonstrated improved clinical outcomes nationally and internationally. She has also translated her work into government funded implementation programs in clinical practice and public health/prevention in Australia and now internationally including into resource poor settings.

Helena also has an interest in advancing women in leadership including research, education and translation of evidence into practice.

With a PhD in 2001, Helena established a new research unit in 2005 of two to a talented research team of 120 staff, students and affiliates (multidisciplinary team: physicians, paediatricians, psychology, dietetics, exercise physiologists, nurses). Students: 55 PhDs current and past. Prof Teede is an RACP and Monash University mentor/supervisor and examiner. Former PhD students have taken up senior posts nationally and internationally and have returned after postdoctoral experience elsewhere, with several NHMRC funded fellows. Helena provides a supportive environment and a role model/mentor for women and active multidisciplinary clinicians in research. She has student nominated awards for supervision and mentoring including the 2015 Monash University Vice Chancellor award for supervision. 

Undergraduate teaching MBBS
Postgraduate medical training
Postgraduate research training

Postgraduate leadership development in leadership 

Postgradaute training in implementation science and healthcare improvement