Researcher biography

A/Prof Leigh Tooth is a Principal Research Fellow who specialises in research on maternal and child health and general women's health, in particular on women carers, health inequalities and the socio-economic determinants of health, quality of life and comorbidity.

A/Prof Leigh Tooth is currently Principal Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH). She chairs the Data Access Committee of the ALSWH. She is CI on the NHMRC funded Centre for Research Excellence on Women and Non-communicable Disease (CRE WaND): Prevention and Detection (2019–2024). She was CI on the NHMRC funded Mothers and their Children's Health Study (MatCH) (2014-2018). MatCH is investigating the relationship between mothers' health history, since 1996, and the family environment to children's health and development outcomes, including health service utilisation. She is also leading a program of research into health inequalities and the socio-economic determinants of health, and women carers. Her other current research interests are quality of life and comorbidity. Her previous research experiences include a NHMRC Public Health Fellowship (1999-2003), during which she investigated the short and long term functional and community outcomes of people following stroke, and being a NHMRC Fellow with the Longitudinal Studies Unit in the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland researching statistical methodology and teaching into the epidemiology program. She has a PhD and first class honours degree in Occupational Therapy from the University of Queensland.

Featured projects Duration
The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH)
Population Health Policy and Analysis
20122023
Mothers and their Children’s Health (MatCH)
NHMRC Project Grant
20142020
NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Women and Non-Communicable Diseases: Prevention and Detection (CRE WaND)
National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence