Dr Adrienne O'Neil is a Senior Research Fellow, National Health & Medical Research Council ECF and Deputy Head of the NonCommunicable Disease Unit at the Melbourne School of Population & Global Health and University of Melbourne. She is a behavioural scientist with over ten years experience in public health, health services research and epidemiology. She has been developing a research program that focuses on the primary and secondary prevention of cardio-metabolic conditions - specifically for those with mental disorders such as depression. She also specialises in the use of technology for the delivery of effective, contemporary and scalable interventions for real world translation, having spent 6 months researching this area at Stanford University in 2014. Dr O'Neil's research portfolio contains a combination of intervention studies that have conducted in a range of acute, primary care and community-based settings for the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes (e.g. GGT Diabetes Prevention Project), CVD and depression. She has also been involved in several seminal epidemiological studies including the Geelong Osteoporosis Study, AusDiab, MILES-diabetes and the National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Throughout her career, she has produced 57 publications including 41 scientific papers, 5 published letters, 4 abstracts, 5 book chapters, 1 report and 1 patient manual. This includes first author commentary pieces in the Archives of Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine and Medical Journal of Australia. In 2011, she wrote a piece for Circulation calling for better recognition and treatment of depression for women after hospitalization for heart attack. To date, she has received ~$2 million of competitive funding.