Healthy eating: research
Research Fellows
Dr Ruth Morley – Melbourne University
Maternal nutrition in pregnancy and growth in infancy outcome in children
Dr Anna Peeters – Monash University
Long-term implications of the increasing prevalence and duration of obesity for health in Australia
An aid to more effective and targeted prevention.
Dr Kevin Rowley – Melbourne University
Interventions to improve cardiovascular health in Aboriginal people
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Scholars
Ms Leah Brennan – RMIT
Improving body composition and function in overweight and obese adolescents
Ms Della Forster – La Trobe University
Attachment to the breast and family attitudes to breastfeeding
The effect of breastfeeding education in the middle of pregnancy on the duration of breastfeeding.
Mr Linton Harriss – Monash University
Dietary risks and alcohol as determinants of cardiovascular disease in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study
Ms Victoria Inglis – Deakin University
Why do women eat what they do?
Personal, social and environmental influences on eating behaviours of women from different socioeconomic backgrounds.
Dr Sylvia Pomeroy – Deakin University
The role of nutrition promotion in secondary prevention of chronic diseases in older Victorians
Ms Catherine Russell – Deakin University
Contributions of parental socialisation to food intakes and body weight in children in two cultures
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Research projects
Dr David Crawford – Deakin University
The influence of the family environment on children’s eating and physical activity
A study examining how different factors in the family environment affect 5-6-year-old children's eating behaviours and physical activity habits.
Prof. Graham Gilies – Cancer Council Victoria
The predictors of healthy eating and physical activity in Health 2000
This project is a follow up of 40,000 people in the Health 2000 cohort and a repeat of measures of eating habits and physical activity along with additional questions about health beliefs, in order to investigate why some people's patterns of eating and physical activity improve or worsen with age.
Dr Anne Kavanagh – University of Melbourne
Environmental and individual determinants of physical activity and dietary behaviour
A project which aims to determine why socioeconomic groups differ in their physical activity participation and food purchasing behaviours, by estimating the contributions of environmental, inter-personal and intra-personal factors.
Emily Morgan, Fulbright Scholar – VicHealth and Deakin Univesity
Fruit and vegetable consumption and waste in Australia
A study that examines present fruit and vegetable consumption and waste in Australia and makes recommendations towards a food supply system framework that will deliver healthy food in a sustainable way. Download the report Fruit and vegetable consumption and waste in Australia
Dr Elizabeth Waters
– Royal Children’s Hospital
Trial of school community-based child health promotion and obesity prevention
The project aims to determine whether an 18-month school community-based intervention, designed to involve school communities in the development and implementation of evidence-based health promotion and obesity prevention strategies can improve dietary intake, increase physical activity, improve child health and wellbeing and be sustainable.
Dr Elizabeth Waters
– Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Socio-cultural factors in the prevention of child and adolescent obesity
A study that examines the role of sociocultural influence as determinants of eating/food habits and physical activity.