Academic · Educator · Researcher

Dr Filippe
Oliveira

Fetal and neonatal development, women's health education, and the developmental origins of cardiometabolic disease.

Working across teaching, professional development and research — with a focus on early-life influences on health, women's health education, and practical academic leadership.

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01 About

A scholar of early life,
and its long shadow.

I am an academic with teaching experience in Australia and overseas, currently working in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Monash Health and Monash University.

My work spans undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, continuing professional development for healthcare providers, and research on how environmental exposures early in life influence fetal-placental development and later cardiometabolic health.

This website is a simple point of contact for collaborators, journalists and students seeking an overview of my work, interests and selected outputs.

02 Focus

Four interrelated areas of inquiry.

Where my teaching, research and professional development work converge — linked by a common interest in early life and lifelong health.

01

Research

Developmental origins of health and disease

Investigating how early-life exposures shape long-term metabolic and physiological outcomes.

02

Research

Fetal and placental development

Understanding mechanisms that influence fetal-placental development and later disease risk.

03

Research

Exercise, nutrition and metabolism

Examining how exercise and diet influence physiology across generations.

04

Education

Health professions education

Designing and leading high-quality teaching and CPD in women's health and developmental science.

03 Selected work

Recent publications, briefly described.

A selection of peer-reviewed research outputs. The full list is available on the Monash academic profile.

2020

The Journal of Physiology

Maternal exercise attenuates the lower skeletal muscle glucose uptake and insulin secretion caused by paternal obesity in female adult rat offspring

Demonstrates that exercise before and during pregnancy may attenuate adverse metabolic effects associated with paternal obesity.

2019

The Journal of Physiology

Four weeks of exercise early in life reprograms adult skeletal muscle insulin resistance caused by a paternal high-fat diet

Shows that early-life exercise can have lasting benefits for metabolic health in offspring exposed to adverse paternal factors.

2018

Acta Physiologica

Four days of simulated shift work reduces insulin sensitivity in humans

Reports that short periods of simulated night shift work can reduce insulin sensitivity in healthy adults.

2022

Frontiers in Nutrition

Maternal low-protein diet reduces skeletal muscle protein synthesis and mass via Akt-mTOR pathway in adult rats

Examines how maternal dietary restriction can affect skeletal muscle metabolism and long-term physiological outcomes in adult offspring.

04 Teaching & Recognition

Top 5%

Unit ranking at Monash University — consistently

#1

In the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences for overall student satisfaction

Teaching excellence.

I lead an undergraduate unit in fetal and neonatal development that has been consistently ranked in the top 5% at Monash University and ranked #1 in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences for overall student satisfaction among large cohort units.

Alongside undergraduate teaching, I also teach in postgraduate units in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and coordinate continuing professional development courses for healthcare providers in women's health.

Undergraduate leadership Postgraduate teaching Women's health CPD

Recognition & leadership

National

AAUT Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning

Institutional

Vice-Chancellor's Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

Faculty

Dean's Award for Excellence in Education

School

Excellence in Teaching, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health

CPD leadership

Coordinator of women's health CPD courses; experienced in accreditation submissions across RANZCOG, RACGP, RACP and ACRRM-related activities