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Co-Director, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University

Kathryn Backholer is co-Director of the Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, which includes a World Health Organisation Centre for the Prevention of Obesity. She leads a team of staff and students working to inform policy and practice of the most effective ways to improve diet-related ill-health and reduce social inequalities in health, with a key focus on harmful marketing to children and food pricing and affordability.

Experience

  • 2015–present
    Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University

Education

  • 2009 
    Monash University, PhD

Research Areas

  • Epidemiology (111706)
  • Preventive Medicine (111716)
  • Public Health And Health Services (1117)