Dr Kylie Hunter
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Dr Kylie Hunter

PhD MPH
Research Fellow
NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Dr Kylie Hunter

Dr Kylie Hunter is a Research Fellow and co-lead of the NextGen Evidence Synthesis Team at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney. She is also Associate Convenor of the Cochrane Prospective Meta-Analysis Methods Group. Kylie specialises in systematic reviews, methods development, managing collaborative projects and individual participant data. Her clinical focus areas are obesity and child health.


Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health, Lifespan

Publications

Journals

  • Johnson, B., Chadwick, P., Pryde, S., Seidler, A., Hunter, K., Aberoumand, M., Williams, J., Lau, H., Libesman, S., Aagerup, J., Barba, A., Baur, L., Taki, S., Hayes, A., Webster, A., Robledo, K., Askie, L., Wen, L., et al (2025). Behavioural components and delivery features of early childhood obesity prevention interventions: intervention coding of studies in the TOPCHILD Collaboration systematic review. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 22(1), 14. [More Information]
  • Wilkinson, J., Dumville, J., Grohmann, S., Gurrin, L., Hayden, J., Hunter, K., Lam, E., Lasserson, T., Li, T., Lensen, S., Parker, L., Seidler, A., et al (2024). A survey of experts to identify methods to detect problematic studies: stage 1 of the INveStigating ProblEmatic Clinical Trials in Systematic Reviews project. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 175, 111512. [More Information]
  • Tan, A., Webster, A., Libesman, S., Yang, Z., Chand, R., Liu, W., Palacios, T., Hunter, K., Seidler, A. (2024). Data sharing policies across health research globally: Cross-sectional meta-research study. Research Synthesis Methods. [More Information]

2025

  • Johnson, B., Chadwick, P., Pryde, S., Seidler, A., Hunter, K., Aberoumand, M., Williams, J., Lau, H., Libesman, S., Aagerup, J., Barba, A., Baur, L., Taki, S., Hayes, A., Webster, A., Robledo, K., Askie, L., Wen, L., et al (2025). Behavioural components and delivery features of early childhood obesity prevention interventions: intervention coding of studies in the TOPCHILD Collaboration systematic review. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 22(1), 14. [More Information]

2024

  • Wilkinson, J., Dumville, J., Grohmann, S., Gurrin, L., Hayden, J., Hunter, K., Lam, E., Lasserson, T., Li, T., Lensen, S., Parker, L., Seidler, A., et al (2024). A survey of experts to identify methods to detect problematic studies: stage 1 of the INveStigating ProblEmatic Clinical Trials in Systematic Reviews project. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 175, 111512. [More Information]
  • Tan, A., Webster, A., Libesman, S., Yang, Z., Chand, R., Liu, W., Palacios, T., Hunter, K., Seidler, A. (2024). Data sharing policies across health research globally: Cross-sectional meta-research study. Research Synthesis Methods. [More Information]
  • Hunter, K., Aberoumand, M., Libesman, S., Sotiropoulos, J., Williams, J., Li, W., Aagerup, J., Mol, B., Wang, R., Barba, A., Shrestha, N., Webster, A., Seidler, A. (2024). Development of the individual participant data integrity tool for assessing the integrity of randomised trials using individual participant data. Research Synthesis Methods, 15(6), 940-949. [More Information]

2023

  • Seidler, A., Montgomery, A., Gyte, G., Duley, L., Askie, L., Aberoumand, M., Hunter, K., Barba, A., Libesman, S., Williams, J., Shrestha, N., Aagerup, J., Sotiropoulos, J. (2023). Deferred cord clamping, cord milking, and immediate cord clamping at preterm birth: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis. The Lancet. [More Information]
  • Jebeile, H., Lister (nee Blanch), N., Libesman, S., Hunter, K., McMaster, C., Johnson, B., Baur, L., Paxton, S., Garnett, S., Ahern, A., Maguire, S., Steinbeck, K., Askie, L., Dammery, G., Partridge, S., Seidler, A., et al (2023). Eating disorders in weight-related therapy (EDIT): Protocol for a systematic review with individual participant data meta-analysis of eating disorder risk in behavioural weight management. PloS One, 18(7), e0282401. [More Information]
  • Seidler, A., Hunter, K., Barba, A., Aberoumand, M., Libesman, S., Williams, J., Shrestha, N., Aagerup, J., Gyte, G., Montgomery, A., Askie, L., et al (2023). Optimizing cord management for each preterm baby – Challenges of collating individual participant data and recommendations for future collaborative research. Seminars in Perinatology, 47(4), 151740. [More Information]

2022

  • Brown, V., Moodie, M., Sultana, M., Hunter, K., Byrne, R., Zarnowiecki, D., Seidler, A., Golley, R., Taylor, R., Hesketh, K., et al (2022). A scoping review of outcomes commonly reported in obesity prevention interventions aiming to improve obesity-related health behaviors in children to age 5 years. Obesity Reviews, 23(5), e13427. [More Information]
  • Brown, V., Moodie, M., Sultana, M., Hunter, K., Byrne, R., Seidler, A., Golley, R., Taylor, R., Hesketh, K., Matvienko-Sikar, K. (2022). Core outcome set for early intervention trials to prevent obesity in childhood (COS-EPOCH): Agreement on “what” to measure. International Journal of Obesity, 46(10), 1867-1874. [More Information]
  • Hunter, K., Webster, A., Clarke, M., Page, M., Libesman, S., Godolphin, P., Aberoumand, M., Rydzewska, L., Wang, R., Tan, A., Willson, M., Palacios, T., Seidler, A., et al (2022). Development of a checklist of standard items for processing individual participant data from randomised trials for meta-analyses: Protocol for a modified e-Delphi study. PloS One, 17(10), e0275893. [More Information]

2021

  • Mihrshahi, S., Jawad, D., Richards, L., Hunter, K., Ekambareshwar, M., Seidler, A., Baur, L. (2021). A review of registered randomized controlled trials for the prevention of obesity in infancy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(5), 1-18. [More Information]
  • Tan, A., Askie, L., Hunter, K., Barba, A., Simes, R., Seidler, A. (2021). Data sharing—trialists' plans at registration, attitudes, barriers and facilitators: A cohort study and cross-sectional survey. Research Synthesis Methods, 12(5), 641-657. [More Information]
  • Houssami, N., Hofvind, S., Soerensen, A., Robledo, K., Hunter, K., Bernardi, D., Lang, K., Johnson, K., Aglen, C., Zackrisson, S. (2021). Interval breast cancer rates for digital breast tomosynthesis versus digital mammography population screening: An individual participant data meta-analysis. EClinicalMedicine, 34, 100804. [More Information]

2020

  • Askie, L., Espinoza, D., Martin, A., Daniels, L., Mihrshahi, S., Taylor, R., Wen, L., Campbell, K., Hesketh, K., Rissel, C., Seidler, A., Hunter, K., Baur, L., et al (2020). Interventions commenced by early infancy to prevent childhood obesity—The EPOCH Collaboration: An individual participant data prospective meta-analysis of four randomized controlled trials. Pediatric Obesity, 15(6), e12618. [More Information]
  • Seidler, A., Hunter, K., Cheyne, S., Berlin, J., Ghersi, D., Askie, L. (2020). Prospective meta-analyses and Cochrane's role in embracing next-generation methodologies. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 10, ED000145. [More Information]
  • Seidler, A., Duley, L., Katheria, A., De Paco Matallana, C., Dempsey, E., Rabe, H., Kattwinkel, J., Mercer, J., Josephsen, J., Fairchild, K., Tarnow-Mordi, W., Kluckow, M., Hunter, K., Barba, A., Simes, R., Askie, L., et al (2020). Systematic review and network meta-analysis with individual participant data on cord management at preterm birth (iCOMP): Study protocol. BMJ Open, 10(3), e034595. [More Information]

2019

  • Seidler, A., Hunter, K., Cheyne, S., Ghersi, D., Berlin, J., Askie, L. (2019). A guide to prospective meta-analysis. BMJ, 367, 1-11. [More Information]
  • Duley, L., Meher, S., Hunter, K., Seidler, A., Askie, L. (2019). Antiplatelet agents for preventing pre-eclampsia and its complications. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2019 (10), 1-284. [More Information]
  • Seidler, A., Hunter, K., Chartres, N., Askie, L. (2019). Associations between industry involvement and study characteristics at the time of trial registration in biomedical research. PloS One, 14(9), 1-12. [More Information]

2018

  • Ko, H., Hunter, K., Scott, A., Ayson, M., Willson, M. (2018). A systematic review of performance-enhancing pharmacologicals and biotechnologies in the Army. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 164(3), 197-206. [More Information]
  • Askie, L., Darlow, B., Finer, N., Schmidt, B., Stenson, B., Tarnow-Mordi, W., Davis, P., Carlo, W., Brocklehurst, P., Davies, L., Gebski, V., Hunter, K., Simes, R., et al (2018). Association Between Oxygen Saturation Targeting and Death or Disability in Extremely Preterm Infants in the Neonatal Oxygenation Prospective Meta-analysis Collaboration. JAMA, 319(21), 2190-2201. [More Information]
  • Marinovich, M., Hunter, K., Macaskill, P., Houssami, N. (2018). Breast Cancer Screening Using Tomosynthesis or Mammography: A Meta-analysis of Cancer Detection and Recall. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 110(9), 942-949. [More Information]

2017

  • Meher, S., Duley, L., Hunter, K., Askie, L. (2017). Antiplatelet therapy before or after 16 weeks' gestation for preventing preeclampsia: an individual participant data meta-analysis. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 216(2), 121-128.e2. [More Information]
  • Houssami, N., Lang, K., Hofvind, S., Zackrisson, S., Bernardi, D., Hunter, K., Askie, L., Skaane, P. (2017). Effectiveness of digital breast tomosynthesis (3D-mammography) in population breast cancer screening: A protocol for a collaborative individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis. Translational Cancer Research, 6(4), 869-877. [More Information]
  • Korevaar, D., Hooft, L., Askie, L., Barbour, V., Faure, H., Gatsonis,, C., Hunter, K., Kressel, H., Lippman, H., McInnes, M., et al (2017). Facilitating prospective registration of diagnostic accuracy studies: A STARD initiative. Clinical Chemistry, 63(8), 1331-1341. [More Information]

2015

  • Lam, J., Lord, S., Hunter, K., Simes, R., Vu, T., Askie, L. (2015). Australian clinical trial activity and burden of disease: an analysis of registered trials in National Health Priority Areas. Medical Journal of Australia, 203(2), 97-102. [More Information]

Selected Grants

2019

  • TOPCHILD Transforming Obesity Prevention for CHILDren. Looking into the black box of interventions, Seidler A, Mihrshahi S, Golley R, Hunter K, Johnson B, Staub L, Askie L, Taylor R, Chadwick P, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Ideas Grant