Professor Louise Baur AM
Lead Investigator, CRE Director
Professor Baur AM, FAHMS is Professor of Child and Adolescent Health at the University of Sydney, and has a conjoint appointment as Professor in the Sydney School of Public Health. She is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow. She is also a consultant paediatrician at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney.
Professor Baur is President of the World Obesity Federation (2022-2024). She has had previous roles as Director on the Governing Board of the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, as a Director of World Vision Australia (2009-2017) and as a Founding Fellow and member of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. In 2010, Professor Baur was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).
Louise Baur’s research interests include the prevention and management of obesity in children and young people, health service responses to obesity, food marketing and children, and the measurement of obesity-related behaviours. She is Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood-Translate, one of the CREs that contributes to the Collaboration for Enhanced Research Impact.
Professor Louise Baur AM's projects
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Modelling the costs of obesity from adolescence to adulthood
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Strengthening the evidence for childhood obesity strategies
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Healthy public policy to support healthy and equitable eating
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Tackling childhood obesity with big data and dynamic simulation modelling
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Professor Louise Baur AM's news and media
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International Congress on Obesity (ICO) Melbourne Oct 18-22
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The value of prevention: childhood obesity early interventions
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NHMRC funding success for prevention researchers
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CERI expands with three further Centres of Research Excellence
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Epic EPOCH CRE – preventing obesity in childhood
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Obesity stigma is a barrier to action
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Time to tackle obesity, another threat to global health and wellbeing
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The power of working together: Research centres join forces in major new platform for prevention
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All About You: Using social media to engage youth and understand health behaviour
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Tackling obesity with a twist
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Supporting prevention’s future leaders
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Professor Louise Baur AM's resources
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Advanced modelling shows a 20% sugar-sweetened beverage tax is a best buy for reducing child obesity in Australia
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A passion to address maternal and child obesity
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Partnering to develop a decision tool to reduce childhood overweight and obesity
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Food marketing to children: the claims and the evidence
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The case for strict limits on junk food marketing to children
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