Overweight and obesity

Dr Konsita Kuswara

Dr Konsita Kuswara is the Knowledge Translation Coordinator with Centre of Research Excellence for Translating Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood (EPOCH-Translate). She has a background in dietetics, primary health care, and a PhD in understanding infant feeding behaviour among Chinese immigrant women. Her research focuses on the early prevention of childhood obesity among immigrant communities …
Professor Adrian Cameron

Adrian Cameron is a Professor in the Institute for Health Transformation, Faculty of Health at Deakin University’s Melbourne Burwood Campus. He has published widely in areas related to obesity and nutrition, and his current research is focused on policy and retailer-focused research to improve retail food environments. He is a Section Editor for Current Obesity …
Dr Victoria Brown

Dr Vicki Brown is a member of the Collaboration for Enhanced Research Impact (CERI), a joint initiative between the Prevention Centre and several NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence. Vicki is a Senior Research Fellow within Deakin Health Economics (DHE) at Deakin University, Melbourne Australia and a member of the Centre for Research Excellence in Translating …
Dr Sandro Sperandei

Dr Sandro Sperandei is an epidemiologist and statistician, with extensive experience in complex sampling, statistical models, and simulation, with emphasis in suicide prevention and marginalised and hard-to-reach populations. Sandro has 20 years of experience in data analysis in fields including people living with HIV, drug users, very low-income populations, diabetes, hypertension, physical activity, and others. …
Dr Mary Wanjau

Dr Mary Njeri Wanjau’s research interest is in health and economic impact assessment of preventive health strategies. She is currently involved in multiple ongoing epidemiological modelling projects within the Public Health & Economics Modelling Group in School of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University. This Group is spearheading Public Health research in Economics of prevention at …
Moosa Al Subhi

Moosa Al Subhi is a second-year PhD student at Deakin Health Economics. He successfully gained a PhD scholarship with the Centre for Research Excellence in Food Retail Environments for Health (REFRESH). Moosa’s PhD investigates which business outcomes are important to retailers and how they can be included in cost-effectiveness analyses. As part of this, he …
Phuong Nguyen

Ms Phuong Nguyen has a Master of Public Health & Master of Human Services Management degree (2014 – from Deakin University). She is currently a part-time Doctor of Philosophy candidate at Deakin University as well as a Research Fellow in Deakin Health Economics (DHE). Phuong Nguyen’s research focuses on the economic evaluation of obesity and …
Dr Alexandra Chung

Dr Alexandra Chung a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Health and Social Care Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Her research interests include childhood obesity prevention, health equity, and the role of policy to equitably improve children’s diets. Alexandra currently holds a VicHealth Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Her Fellowship research is focused on food …
Georgia Carney

Georgia Carney works within the Gastrointestinal Cancer Policy and Evaluation stream at the Daffodil Centre. Georgia’s current work involves conducting scoping reviews for the Preventing Liver Cancer project which aims to expand the scope of an Australian liver cancer model to map the impact of modifiable risk factors for liver cancer including obesity and alcohol …
Judy Nean