Rate My Professor Alexis Hure

Alexis Hure is a Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the School of Medicine and Public Health, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, at the University of Newcastle. A dietician by training, she completed her Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (Honours) and PhD in Nutrition and Dietetics, as well as her postdoctoral training, entirely at the University of Newcastle. Currently holding a Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) Public Health Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, her career has focused on medical epidemiology within this institution. Hure's research specializations include fetal growth, breastfeeding, child nutrition, nutrition during pregnancy, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and the developmental origins of health and disease. She investigates maternal health behaviors and their long-term impacts on child outcomes, aiming to translate findings into clinical practice for healthcare providers such as doctors and midwives.

Hure leads the Women And Their Children (WATCH) study, a prospective longitudinal cohort of approximately 180 mother-child pairs, examining diet, sleep, physical activity, ultrasounds, and cognitive development from pregnancy through early childhood. She is a key member of the Australian Study for the Prevention through Immunisation of Cardiovascular Events (AUSPICE) team, which conducted a randomized clinical trial on the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine for preventing adverse cardiovascular events, and she researches strategies to reduce low-value pathology test ordering in hospitals. Key publications include "Prevention of Adverse Cardiovascular Events Using the 23-Valent Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine: A Randomized Clinical Trial" in JAMA Cardiology (2025), "Identifying low value pathology test ordering in hospitalised patients: a retrospective cohort study across two hospitals" in Pathology (2019), "Effects of Nutritional Interventions during Pregnancy on Infant and Child Cognitive Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" (2017), and "Maternal Nutrition and Cognition" (2017). She received the PULSE Education Prize from HMRI in 2011. As a senior lecturer, she teaches, supervises students, and collaborates on projects related to maternal health.