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Brittany Johnson

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Flinders University

Brittany is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Caring Futures Institute, in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University. Brittany is an Accredited Practising Dietitian with a background in public health nutrition and experience in working with Aboriginal communities and the child care sector to make healthy food choices. Her research interests include improving children’s diet quality by reducing unhealthy food intake, applying behaviour change theory and creating supportive environments where we live, work, learn and play.
Her PhD was focussed on identifying intervention content to support parents to reduce provision of unhealthy foods to their young children during the transition to pre-school and school. She is leading the deconstructing interventions component of the TOPCHILD Collaboration (www.topchildcollaboration.org)—a project that is bringing together researchers from around the world to transform early childhood obesity prevention, by unpacking past interventions using novel methods to understand how they work, and for whom. She is part of a research program building the evidence for school-provided meals in Australia.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Postdoctoral research fellow, Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University
  • 2018–2020
    Research assistant, Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University
  • 2015–2018
    Research assistant, University of South Australia
  • 2015–2016
    Lecturer, University of South Australia
  • 2013–2015
    Dietitian, Country Health SA Local Health Network
  • 2011–2013
    Dietitian, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network

Education

  • 2020 
    Flinders University, Doctor of Philosophy
  • 2016 
    University of South Australia, Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours)
  • 2010 
    Flinders University, Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics

Grants and Contracts

  • 2022
    Centre of Research Excellence in the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood -Translate
    Role:
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Funding Source:
    National Health and Medical Research Council
  • 2020
    TOPCHILD (Transforming Obesity Prevention for CHILDren) Ideas Grant
    Role:
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Funding Source:
    National Health and Medical Research Council

Professional Memberships

  • Dietetics Association of Australia
  • International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • Nutrition Society of Australia
  • Home Economics Institute of Australia