Professor Amanda Lee
Project Lead
EMAIL [email protected]
Professor Lee is a Senior Adviser with The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre. She is Professor in Public Health Policy in the Faculty of Medicine’s School of Public Health at the University of Queensland and an Affiliate Professor at the UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. She is an Adjunct Professor at Curtin University, Griffith University and the Queensland University of Technology, and Nutrition Consultant for Nganampa Health Council.
She has more than 35 years’ experience as a practitioner and academic in nutrition, obesity and chronic disease prevention, Indigenous health and public health policy.
Professor Lee was the chair of the NHMRC Dietary Guidelines Working Committee, is current Chair of Food Standards Australia New Zealand’s Consumer and Public Health Dialogue, a member of the Australian Academy of Science’s Nutrition Committee and Co-convenor of the Food and Nutrition Special Interest Group of the Public Health Association of Australia.
With the people of Minjilang, she demonstrated that marked, rapid, affordable improvements in objective indicators of nutrition and health status are possible in remote Aboriginal communities. For over a decade, she led the development of a strategic approach to tackle poor diet and obesity for Queensland Health. Among recent national projects, Professor Lee scoped the new national nutrition policy, finalised the Healthy Weight Guide website, assessed evidence to prioritise obesity policy actions in state jurisdictions, and developed the Healthy Diets ASAP (Australian Standardised Affordability and Pricing) methods.
Globally, she leads the food price and affordability domain of the International Network for Food and Obesity/non-communicable diseases Research, Monitoring and Action Support (INFORMAS).
Professor Amanda Lee's projects
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Public health law: making it work for the prevention of chronic disease
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Supporting priority actions in the food and nutrition system
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Improving Aboriginal food security and diet
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Benchmarking obesity policies in Australia
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Are healthy diets really more expensive?
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Healthy public policy to support healthy and equitable eating
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Assessing the cost of healthy diets in low socioeconomic groups in Australia
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Improving food security in Aboriginal communities
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Professor Amanda Lee's news and media
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Healthy diets in a time of food insecurity and rising cost of living
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Unpacking the rising cost of food in Australia
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International Congress on Obesity (ICO) Melbourne Oct 18-22
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One simple solution to healthy affordable food
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Aboriginal communities hungry for food security
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What if we had a health star rating to protect the planet?
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As we face a “perfect storm” for food security, here are some solutions
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World leading actions in the food and nutrition system
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Big Appetite for Food Dashboard
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Food security – Flavour of the month
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PreventionWorks LIVE: a new series of events and podcasts from the Prevention Centre
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Affordability of healthy diets and the COVID-19 pandemic
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Remote Aboriginal communities improve their food security and diet
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Forget vitamins, eating properly is easy
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Improving food security and nutrition in Aboriginal communities
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Focus on the food system not the individual, experts urge
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How garbage food became normal
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A healthy diet is cheaper than junk food but a good diet is still too expensive for some
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Meet Professor Amanda Lee
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Professor Amanda Lee's resources
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Building healthier, more equitable and sustainable food systems for Australia
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Cost and affordability of healthy, equitable and more sustainable diets, and store food environments, in the APY Lands
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Australia’s Food Environment Dashboard launch
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Improving food security and affordability in Australia
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Cost and affordability of healthy, sustainable and equitable diets in the Torres Strait Islands
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Healthy, equitable and sustainable diets cost and affordability in Queensland
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Store nutrition report Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands May 2019
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Store nutrition report Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands January 2019
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Healthy Diets ASAP images
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Store nutrition report Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands April 2018
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How do we make the easiest food choice the healthiest?
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Are healthy diets really more expensive?
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