Dietary Guidelines Expert Committee

Employment 

• Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences; University of Queensland; January 2024
• Alfred Deakin Professor, Deakin University, 2022-current
• Professor of Nutrition, Deakin University; October 2005 to January 2024
• NHMRC Career Development Fellow; 2016 to 2019
• Funded by Deakin University since January 2020

Grants/ Contracts 

• Heart Foundation Vanguard Grant; Machado, McNaughton, Russell, Khandpur. A communication framework to increase consumer understanding of ultra-processed foods in Australia; 2024; $72,277 total
• Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP1095595; Nutrition and physical activity of older adults; $210,000
• NHMRC Project Grant ID1008879; childhood obesity prevention; 2011-2013; $850,666
• Medical Research Future Fund Preventative and Public Health Research Initiative; Healthy ageing, falls and osteoporosis. 2020-2024; $1,393,504
• World Health Organisation; Dietary patterns and multiple health outcomes; 2016; US$20,000
• Australian Research Council Discovery Project; DP170100544; Eating patterns, physical activity, sleep and mood; 2017-2019; $486,000
• World Health Organisation; Dietary patterns and multiple health outcomes; 2018-2021; $252,751
• Australian Research Council Linkage Grant; LP0990129; Fruits and vegetables; 2009-2012; $70,000
• World Health Organisation; Dietary patterns and multiple health outcomes; 2018-2019; $33,700
• Australian Research Council Discovery Project; DP190101323; Nutrition evidence; 2019-2021; $342,899
• Oz Harvest; Food security and food literacy; 2019; $9,838
• Eisele Family Foundation (US); Food security; 2020-2021; US$85,000 ~ AUD$123,000
• Victorian Health Promotion Foundation; Sugar sweetened beverages; 2016; $34,952
• Medibank Better and Health Foundation; Diet and cognitive foundation; 2013-2014
• Nutricia Research Foundation; Dietary assessment, 2013-2014
  • This disclosure has been rated as low risk of bias by the Dietary Guidelines Governance Committee for the following reasons: the individual and their employing institution did not receive any Nutricia Research Foundation funds; the grant was awarded to the investigators more than 5 years ago; and the individual was not a named investigator on the grant.
• Australian Orthopaedic Association; Osteoarthritis; 2018-2020
• Diabetes Australia Research Trust; Diet quality and cognitive function; 2014
• Australian Research Council; FT100100581; Dietary assessment; 2011-2015
• Lotteries Health Research; Dietary patterns and metabolic health; 2013-2014
• NHMRC Project Grant ID1144331; 2018-2020; $858,549
• NHMRC Tender; Evidence evaluation for iodine; 2021-Current; $124,805
• NHMRC Tender; Evidence evaluation for sodium; 2021-Current; $148,806
• Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP1095595; Diet quality and cognitive function; $210,000
• Australian Research Council Discovery Project; DP170100544; Eating patterns, physical activity, sleep and mood; 2017-2019; $486,000
• Australian Research Council Linkage Grant; LP0990129; Fruits and vegetables; 2009-2012; $70,000

Advisory or governing boards 

• Nutrition Australia Victoria Board; Board Member; May 2017-Nov 2021 (declined remuneration)
• NHMRC Discretionary Foods and Drinks Expert Working Group; 2018-2020 (sitting fees)

Consulting/ Speakers’ fees/ Honoraria/ Paid authorship

Nil

Meeting attendance/ paid travel/ receipt of meals 

• Working Group: International Agency on Cancer (IARC) Monographs Vol. 134 – Aspartame, Methyleugenol, and Isoeugenol (2022-2023). Airfares and per diem to cover accommodation, food and local travel by IARC. No other payments
• Public Health Association of Australia: Food Futures Conference Speaker 2022 (registration costs)
• Nutrition Society of Australia: Annual Scientific Meeting Plenary Speaker 2019 (attendance costs)
• Nutrition Society of Australia: Science Meets Parliament; Nutrition Society of Australia Representative; 2017 (attendance costs)

Intellectual Property

Nil

Direct relationships or payments from: Food companies, food manufacturers, grocery stores, dietary products companies, professional societies

Nil

Family member employment/financial interests

Nil

Relationship with organisations with financial links or affiliations with industry groups

Nil

Relationship with organisations which advocate known industry or policy positions 

• Australian Academy of Science National Nutrition Committee; 2022-2025
• Dietitians Australia 
  • Corporate Sponsorship Reference Group; Consultation group; 2017-2018
  • Awards and Recognition Advisory Committee; 2014-2020
  • Conference Committee; 2015-2016
  • Fellow
• Heart Foundation
  • Heart Foundation Expert Reference Group; Position statement on meat, eggs and dairy products; 2018-2019
  • Provided feedback on alcohol position: named contributor; 2020
  • Contributed to Healthy Heart Healthy Eating patterns, Dietary Position Statement; named contributor; Published in 2019
• External Resource Expert, World Health Organisation, WHO Nutrition Guidance Expert Advisory Group (NUGAG) Subcommittee on Diet and Health; 2018-Present
• National Osteoarthritis Strategy Working Group; Contributed to National Strategy; 2018
• Public Health Association of Australia
  • Member; November 2021-Current
  • Contributed to position statement on dietary patterns, food-based guidelines and nutrition; 2019
• Nutrition Society of Australia
  • Member; 1997-2003 and 2007 – Current
  • Recipient of award; 2016; $2000
  • Recipient of award; 2020; No financial component
  • Chair; Melbourne Group; 2011-2012
  • Member; National Council; 2011-2012
  • Member; Professional Registration Committee; 2009-2011
• Mentor, NSA Mentoring Program; 2021 – present
• National Network of Dietetic and Nutrition Research Leaders; Member; 2017-Current
• American Society for Nutrition; Member; 2007-Present
• Australasian Epidemiological Association; Member; 2006 – Present
• Nutrition Society UK; 2003-2018

Unpaid consultancies and/or in-kind support 

• Coles; 2009-2012 – connected with ARC Linkage LP0990129
• National Heart Foundation; 2009-2012– connected with ARC Linkage LP0990129
• Related peer-reviewed publication from LP0990129: Opie, McNaughton, Crawford, Abbott, Ball. How and why does discretionary food consumption change when we promote fruit and vegetables? Results from the ShopSmart randomised controlled trial Public Health Nutrition; 23(1): 124-133. Doi: 10.1017/S1368980019002830

Any relationship with NHMRC 

• Previously funded by NHMRC. Career Development Fellowship; 2016-2019 
  Postdoctoral Fellowship 2005-2009
• NHMRC Public Health Postgraduate Research Scholarship; 1999-2002 
• Chief Investigator on multiple grants in the last 15 years
• Served on NHMRC Discretionary Foods and Drinks Expert Working Group; 2018-2020
• Served on Early Career Fellowship Panel; 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 
• Investigator Grant Panel – Emerging Leadership Level; 2019 

Relationships of family members relevant to dietary guidelines review

Nil

Any formal advice or opinion provided to industry, a government organisation or a non-government organisation on a matter of relevance to the committee. 

• 2017 Theo Murphy High Flyers Think Tank – Rethinking Food and Nutrition Science, Australian Academy of Science, 26-28 July, Perth
• Rapporteur/Leader of Working Group, and co-led writing of Discussion Paper “The Australian Food and Nutrition Knowledge Hub: A critical piece of national infrastructure for nutrition science”.
• Australian Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance; Management of CVD Risk - Update on the Absolute Cardiovascular Disease Risk Guidelines; Expert Subgroup; July 2021 – July 2022
• Current Developments in Nutrition; Academic Editor; 2020-Present
• International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods; International Advisory Committee; 2018-2021
• Scientific Program Committee, 2017 Annual Meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity; 2016-2017
• Oceanic Nutrition Leadership Program – Member of Management Committee and Chair of selection working group; 2015-2017
• Science Meets Parliament; Nutrition Society of Australia Representative; 2017
• International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity; Editorial Board Member; 2007-2021
• Member, Council of Deans of Nutrition & Dietetics (CDND) (Australia and New Zealand); March 2017-June 2020

Publicly expressed a position related to the guidelines

See list of published papers and media on Deakin University Staff Profile.  

Key relevant publications/media declared in last five years  

Publications 

• Riboli E, McNaughton SA, et al., Carcinogenicity of aspartame, methyleugenol, and isoeugenol. The Lancet Oncol. 2023 Aug;24(8):848-850. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(23)00341-8. Epub 2023 Jul 13. PMID: 37454664. 
• Kumanyika S, Afshin A, Arimond M, Lawrence M, McNaughton S, Nishida C. Approaches to Defining Healthy Diets: A Background Paper for the International Expert Consultation on Sustainable Healthy Diets. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 2020; 41(2S):S7-S30. Doi: 10.1177/0379572120973111
• Wingrove K, Lawrence M, McNaughton SA. (2020). Dietary patterns, foods, and nutrients: a descriptive analysis of the systematic reviews conducted to inform the Australian Dietary Guidelines. Nutrition Research Reviews. doi.org/10.1017/S0954422420000190
• McNaughton SA. (2020). Dietary Patterns. (Volume 2B Chapter 13). In Marriott BP, Birt DF, Stallings VA, Yates AA. (Eds). 11th Edition, Present Knowledge in Nutrition. Elsevier: Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2020; pp 235-248
• Lawrence MA, McNaughton SA. (2019). Vegetarian diets and health. BMJ; 366:l5272. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l5272.

Media 

• The risks and benefits of artificial sweeteners. ABC Radio National, November 2017
• Health Check: Should I replace sugar with artificial sweeteners?. The Conversation, September 2017
• The benefits of plant-based eating. The Saturday Paper, 19 May 2018
• Five 'healthy eating' myths dispelled. “this”, February 2017

Other 

• Institute of Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN); Member, Deputy Director (2020-2021); Head of EMCR Development (2021 -present); Provides feedback on IPAN submissions to government; not named as an individual
• Webinar speaker for the Heart Foundation: From evidence to eating – A health professional webinar on how dietary patterns are leading the way forward in nutrition. No payment. No event sponsors. October 2021
• AIA | Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute Roundtable "5590 Virtual Roundtable – Navigating the path to healthier, longer better lives". No payment. No sponsors involved. July 2021

Additional information

Nil

Employment 

• Professor of Dietetics, The University of Sydney, 2015 - current

Grants/ Contracts 

• Australian Research Council with QANTAS (ARC Linkage); Paving the way for long haul flights: strategies to mitigate jetlag; 2023 to 2027
• NHMRC; Optimising functional and social independence and safety of older people living with dementia in care homes: Implementation research; 2022 to 2027
• Australian Research Council with Cancer Council NSW (ARC Linkage); Investigation into consumption of food prepared away from home – a focus on nutrients of concern in 18 to 30 year-olds in NSW; concluded 2019
• NSW Health; Physical Activity, Obesity and Nutrition Centre for NSW Population Health (PANORG); 2019 to 2023
• NHMRC; Randomised controlled trial to determine efficacy and safety of prescribed water intake to prevent the progression of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (PREVENT - ADPKD); 2018 to 2021
• NHMRC; Strengthening the evidence foundation for public health guidelines; 2018 to 2020

Advisory or governing boards 

• Academy of Science; National Nutrition Committee; 2022 – current; no fees.
• School of Public Health, University of Sydney; Advisory Board for PANORG; 2013 to 2018; no fees

Consulting/ Speakers’ fees/ Honoraria/ Paid authorship 

• Honoraria; NZ Dietitians Board and Australian Dietetic Council; accreditation of university courses; 2019

Meeting attendance/ paid travel/ receipt of meals

Nil

Intellectual Property

Nil

Direct relationships or payments from: Food companies, food manufacturers, grocery stores, dietary products companies, professional societies

Nil

Family member employment/ financial interests

Nil

Relationship with organisations with financial links or affiliations with industry groups 

• Dietitians Australia; Fellow; 1983 to current
• Nutrition Society of Australia; Fellow; 1982 to current
• Australian and NZ Obesity Society; Member; 1996 to current
• Society for Nutrition Education and Behaviour; Member; 2019 to current
• British Dietetic Association; Member; 2018 to current
• US Academy Nutrition and Dietetics; Member – 1996 to current
• International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity; Member; 2014 to 2020

Relationship with organisations which advocate known industry or policy positions

Nil

Unpaid consultancies and/or in-kind support

Nil

Any relationship with NHMRC

Nil

Relationships of family members relevant to dietary guidelines review

Nil

Any formal advice or opinion provided to industry, a government organisation or a non-government organisation on a matter of relevance to the committee

Nil

Publicly expressed a position related to the guidelines

Nil

Other

• Allman-Farinelli M, Boljevac B, Vuong T, Hekler E. Nutrition-Related N-of-1 Studies Warrant Further Research to Provide Evidence for Dietitians to Practice Personalized (Precision) Medical Nutrition Therapy: A Systematic Review. Nutrients. 2023 Apr 4;15(7):1756. - Funded by a seed grant from University of California, San Diego and University of Sydney.

Additional Information

Nil

Employment 

Quinns Mindarie Super Clinic; Employed since 2010  

Grants/ Contracts 

• NHMRC-National Foundation for Science and Technology Development Collaborative Research Projects Funding 2018 (APP1155518/ NHMRC.108.03-2018.09); A smartphone application to support breastfeeding for Vietnamese women following caesarean section: Randomised controlled trial; 2019 to 2022
• NHMRC Funding; Infant Feeding Research, Infant Feeding Guidelines for the Asia Pacific Region. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health’ Published in 2018
• Curtin University and Ausaid; Protective effects of breastfeeding against acute respiratory tract infections and diarrhoea: Findings of a cohort study; Published in 2017
• Curtin University; Implications of methodological differences in measuring the rates of exclusive breastfeeding in Nepal: findings from literature review and cohort study; Published in 2016
• Department of Science and Technology of Hebei, China; Grant no. 142777106D Department of Nursing of Chengde Medical University China; Breastfeeding in China: A Review of Changes in the Past Decade; Published in 2020
• Western Australia Health Promotion Foundation, Healthway grant 24023; Impact of a Face-To-Face Versus Smartphone App Versus Combined Breastfeeding Intervention Targeting Fathers: Randomized Controlled Trial; Published in 2021
• Curtin University; Habitual Tea Consumption Reduces Prostate Cancer Risk in Vietnamese Men: a Case-Control Study; Published in 2016
• School of Public Health, Curtin University, PhD Scholarship, photocopying, printing, library access and other consumables. Cohort profile: maternal lifestyle and diet in relation to pregnancy, postpartum and infant health outcomes in Vietnam: A multicentre prospective cohort study; Published in 2017, Dietary Carotenoid Intakes and Prostate Cancer Risk: A Case-Control Study from Vietnam; Published in 2018, Postpartum Physical Activity and Weight Retention within One Year: A Prospective Cohort Study in Vietnam; Published in 2020, two-part mixed-effects model for analyzing clustered time-to-event data with clumping at zero. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine; Published in 2020, Prelacteal and early formula feeding increase risk of infant hospitalisation: a prospective cohort study; Published in 2020, Caesarean delivery associated with adverse breastfeeding practices: a prospective cohort study; Published in 2020, Prevalence and pregnancy outcomes of gestational diabetes mellitus by different international diagnostic criteria: a prospective cohort study in Vietnam; Published in 2019, Low Dietary Intakes of Essential Nutrients during Pregnancy in Vietnam; Published in 2018, Physical Activity During Pregnancy and Postpartum Low Back Pain: A Prospective Cohort Study in Vietnam; Published in 2019, Low Prevalence of Folic Acid Supplementation during Pregnancy: A Multicenter Study in Vietnam; Published in 2019, Physical activity during pregnancy is associated with a lower prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus in Vietnam; Published in 2018, Physical Activity During Pregnancy is Associated with Improved Breastfeeding Outcomes: A Prospective Cohort Study; Published in 2019, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Reduces Breastfeeding Duration: A Prospective Cohort Study; Published in 2019
• Curtin University; Prostate Cancer Risk Reduced by Physical Activity Even Among Men With Prolonged Sitting Time: A Study From Vietnam; Published in 2018
• School of Public Health, Curtin University, PhD Scholarship, photocopying, printing, library access and other consumables, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Vietnam; Thai Nguyen University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Thai Nguyen, Vietnam and Hanoi University of Public Health, Hanoi, Vietnam Soyfood and isoflavone intake and risk of type 2 diabetes in Vietnamese adults; Published in 2017.
• China Medical Board (Grant No. 14–199); Dietary patterns during pregnancy and risk of gestational diabetes: a prospective cohort study in Western China; Published in 2018, Maternal lifestyle and nutritional status in relation to pregnancy and infant health outcomes in Western China: protocol for a prospective cohort study; Published in 2017, Maternal lifestyle and nutritional status in relation to pregnancy and infant health outcomes in Western China: protocol for a prospective cohort study; Published in 2017
• National Center for Women and Children’s Health, China Centre for Disease Control under Grant Number 2019FYH014; WeChat-based intervention to support breastfeeding for Chinese mothers: protocol of a randomised controlled trial. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making; Published in 2020
• Healthway, the Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation (Grant number 19986); Using Cross-Sectional Data to Identify and Quantify the Relative Importance of Factors Associated with and Leading to Food Insecurity; Published in 2018

Advisory or governing boards

Nil

Consulting/ Speakers’ fees/ Honoraria/Paid authorship

Nil

Meeting attendance/ paid travel/ receipt of meals 

• Keynote speaker at 1 or 2 conferences annually with expenses paid by universities and/or professional associations. Speakers’ fees not accepted. Curtin University has paid for several conference attendances
• Presentation on internet research and a workshop on writing research papers at the Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH); Conference registration and accommodation provided by APACPH. No speakers fee.

Intellectual Property

Nil

Direct relationships or payments from: Food companies, food manufacturers, grocery stores, dietary products companies, professional societies

Nil

Family member employment/ financial interests 

Family member – Nutrition Lecturer (retired), past President of Binational Science and Engineering Association  

Relationship with organisations with financial links or affiliations with industry groups

Nil

Relationship with organisations which advocate known industry or policy positions

Nil

Unpaid consultancies and/or in-kind support

Nil

Any relationship with NHMRC 

Represent College of General Practitioners on the Vitamin K Working Party; Working Party member 

Relationships of family members relevant to dietary guidelines review

Nil

Any formal advice or opinion provided to industry, a government organisation or a non-government organisation on a matter of relevance to the committee 

Editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health (Owned by approx. 60 universities in the region) Honorary position 

Publicly expressed a position related to the guidelines 

Hundreds of interviews, media statements, published papers on Dietary Guidelines. Represented NHMRC before parliamentary committees 

Other 

Served as a chair or member of dozens NHMRC dietary guidelines and nutrition committees  

Additional Information 

Several papers submitted or in press 

Employment 

• Deakin University, School of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences (SENS), Institute for Physical Activity &
• Nutrition (IPAN); Senior Lecturer, Community and Public Health Nutrition; May 2019 to Current
• Deakin University, School of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences (SENS), Institute for Physical Activity &
• Nutrition (IPAN); Research Fellow (part-time); August 2016 to April 2019
• Queensland University of Technology, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences; Research Fellow (part-time); March 2016 to August 2016
• Victoria Healthy Eating Advisory Service, Nutrition Australia; Dietitian (part-time); March 2016 to July 2016
• Deakin University, Global Obesity Centre; Research Fellow (part-time); January 2016 to June 2016

Grants/ Contracts 

• Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria; The YCHANGe Project: whole of community obesity prevention initiative – Project Grant Funding; $120,000; 2016
• Royal Flying Doctors Services, Victoria; The YCHANGe Project: whole of community obesity prevention initiative – Project Grant Funding; $40,000 per year; 2016 and 2017
• NSW Translational Research Grant Scheme (TRGS 200), Sydney Local Health District; 2016 to 2020
• NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood (EPOCH CRE) GNT1101675; Early Prevention of Childhood Obesity; $2,483,243; 2016 to 2020
• NSW Health Translational Research Grant Scheme 2016 (TRGS 200) and Sydney Local Health District; Early Prevention of Childhood Obesity; 2016 to 2020
• Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), Deakin University; Food provision in ECEC: Standardising recommendations; $10,000; 2019
• University of Canberra Early Career Academic and Researcher Development Grant; Association between child-feeding practices, children's appetite traits, dietary patterns, bitter-taste sensitivity and weight status of school-aged children 7-12years; $10,000; 2020 to 2021
• University of Canberra Seed Grant; Association between PTC/PROP taste sensitivity, food preferences and weight status in Australian children aged 7-12 years in the ACT region; $5,000; 2019 to 2020
• International Society for Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity Special Interest Group project funding scheme; Implementation and Scalability Barriers for Physical Activity and Nutrition Researchers; 2012 to 2015
• Australian Research Council; Food policies for population health: evidence, influence and accountability; 2018
• NHMRC Partnership Project; A multi-component supermarket intervention to promote healthy eating; 2017 to 2020
• NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence; Implementation for Community Chronic Disease Prevention; 2018
• NHMRC Project Grant; The Strong Families Trial: Randomised controlled trial of a family strengthening program to prevent unhealthy weight gain among 5- to 11-year-old children from at risk families; 2018
• NHMRC Project Grant; Strengthening the evidence foundation for public health guidelines; 2018
• NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence; Reducing salt intake using food policy interventions; 2017 to 2021
• National Heart Foundation Vanguard Grant Heart Foundation Australia; Trends in discretionary food and drink sales in Australia; 2017
• The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre through the NHMRC partnership centre grant scheme (Grant ID: GNT9100001) with the Australian Government Department of Health, NSW Ministry of Health, ACT Health and the HCF Research Foundation; Policy and practice in managing childhood obesity: Implementation case studies in Qld and NSW; 2016
• Research Council of Norway – Collaborative and Knowledge Scheme; Evidence based early-life nutrition interventions for community resilience and life course health; 2021 to 2025
• NHMRC Partnership Projects Grant; Evaluating real-world implementation of an evidence-based program addressing lifestyle behaviours from the start of life; 2019/20 to 2023/24
• Australian Prevention Partnership Centre (TAPPC) through the NHMRC partnership centre grant scheme (Grant ID: GNT9100001). Funded as a post-doc through the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in the Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood (APP1101675); Policy and practice in managing childhood obesity: Implementation case studies in Qld and NSW; 2016

Advisory or governing boards

Nil

Consulting/ Speakers’ fees/ Honoraria/ Paid authorship 

City of Greater Geelong; consulting; tender $18,181; August to December 2022. 

Meeting attendance/ paid travel/ receipt of meals

Nil

Intellectual Property

Nil

Direct relationships or payments from: Food companies, food manufacturers, grocery stores, dietary products companies, professional societies

Nil

Family member employment/ financial interests

Nil

Relationship with organisations with financial links or affiliations with industry groups

Nil

Relationship with organisations which advocate known industry or policy positions 

• Dietitians Australia – membership; Volunteer role: convenor of the Dietitians Australia Public Health and Community Nutrition Interest group; Member 2011 to present; Convenor 2018 to present
• Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) – membership; Volunteer role: co-convenor of the PHAA Food and Nutrition Special Interest group; Membership 2014 to present; Convenor 2018 to present
• International Society for Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) - membership; volunteer role; co-convenor of the Early Childhood Education Special Interest Group (ECE SIG)

Unpaid consultancies and/or in-kind support

Nil

Any relationship with NHMRC

Nil

Relationships of family members relevant to dietary guidelines review

Nil

Any formal advice or opinion provided to industry, a government organisation or a non-government organisation on a matter of relevance to the committee

Nil

Publicly expressed a position related to the guidelines

Nil

Other 

• Research Council of Norway; Nutrition Now project, 2021 to 2025.
• Co-founder of the Australian National Nutrition Network – Early Childhood Education and Care (NNN-ECEC) with international and national representation from academic institutions and NGOs developing, implementing and evaluating nutrition-related initiatives within the ECEC sector
• Nutritious Tools Project (funded through Commonwealth Department of Health $1.2 million); Steering group member; 2021 to 2024

Additional Information

Nil

Employment 

Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of South Australia, January 2008 to current  

Grants/ Contracts 

• NHMRC; Health in Pre-conception & Pregnancy ($10,000); 2022 to 2023
• Central Adelaide Local Health Network; Can dietary interventions improve management of patients experiencing chemotherapy induced diarrhoea ($4645.35); 2021/2022.
• Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; student-study study tour of Fiji looking at eco-food systems; 2019-2020
• NHMRC; Awarded a CRE Women’s Health in Reproductive Life ($13,250); 2021
• NHMRC; Impact of omega-3 supplements on adiposity at 7yrs; 2017

Advisory or governing boards 

Alliance in Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA) at the University of South Australia; Leadership member; 2020 to present.

Consulting/ Speakers’ fees/ Honoraria/Paid authorship 

• Education in Nutrition; October- November 2020
• Taylor and Francis; Nutrition for Exercise, Sports and Performance. University Textbook; 2018

Meeting attendance/ paid travel/ receipt of meals

Invited plenary speaker for Nutrition Society of Australia and Nutrition Society of New Zealand Combined meeting; Can the Mediterranean Diet be a key to unlocking Women’s reproductive health?; November 2023; Airfares, accommodation and day conference registration paid by the Nutrition Society of Australia and Nutrition Society of New Zealand.

Intellectual Property

Nil

Direct relationships or payments from: Food companies, food manufacturers, grocery stores, dietary products companies, professional societies

Nil

Family member employment/ financial interests 

Family members employed in retail food sales 2015 to present 

Relationship with organisations with financial links or affiliations with industry groups

Nil

Relationship with organisations which advocate known industry or policy positions 

• Dietitians Australia; Member; 1989 to present
• Sports Dietitians Australia; Member; 2012 to present

Unpaid consultancies and/or in-kind support 

2017 Croda Chemicals donated control capsules for NHMRC funded study. 

Any relationship with NHMRC

Nil

Relationships of family members relevant to dietary guidelines review

Nil

Any formal advice or opinion provided to industry, a government organisation or a non-government organisation on a matter of relevance to the committee

Nil

Publicly expressed a position related to the guidelines 

• Dinner with a Scientist: Debunking the Myths of Nutrition – The Dietary Guidelines; Invited Dinner Speaker for Australian Society for Medical Research ASMR Public Event, Adelaide; June 2015
• Dietary Guidelines – what are they good for? Invited Lunch Speaker at Adelaide Club; March 2021
• Author with The Conversation – a variety of articles on food and health

Other 

• Abstract submissions for AuSPEN Conference; 2023
• Abstract submissions for Dietitians Australia Conference; 2022
• Abstract submissions for Nutrition Society of Australia Conference; 2022 and 2023
• Associate editor, Dietitians Australia "Nutrition and Dietetics" Journal; 2014 to present.
• Co-editor, Special issue editor for peer-reviewed journal "Metabolites" Special Issue is "Cardiometabolic Effect of the Mediterranean Diet"; September 2021 to present.
• Co-editor, Special issue editor for peer reviewed journal "Frontiers in Nutrition" Special Issue is "Ultra-processed Foods: Health Concerns and Consumption Trends"; August 2021 to present.

Additional Information

Nil

Employment 

• NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship School of Public Health, University of Queensland; 2017-2022
• ARC Future Fellowship, School of Public Health, University of Queensland; 2014-2017

Grants/ Contracts 

• India Alliance DBT Welcome; Study and Action on Hysterectomy: Evidence on women’s health through the Life Course in India; 2023 to 2028.
• NHMRC Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies grant (APP2015203); Maternal and early life origins of adolescent menstrual disorders and pelvic pain; 2023 to 2027
• Queensland Health; Evidence review to contribute to the development of Queensland Women’s Health policy; 2023
• MRFF 2021 Research Data Infrastructure (MRFFRD000065); EndoLinked: Identifying fertility outcomes for women with endometriosis.; 2022 to 2026
• NHMRC Leadership Fellow (L3) (APP209577); Tackling multimorbidity in women across the life course: Building the evidence for improved prevention strategies and care pathways; 2022 to 2026
• Medical Research Future Fund (AP1199785); Genetic variants, Early life exposures, and Longitudinal Endometriosis Symptoms study (GELLES); 2020 to 2024
• NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship (APP1121844); Leveraging women’s health data resources to reduce chronic disease risk and extend healthspan (and all related publications); 2017 to 2022
• NHMRC Project Grant (APP1129592); M-PreM study: Reproductive factors, from menarche to pre-menopause, and the risk of cardiometabolic and respiratory conditions before menopause. Biomedical data collection on premenopausal women; 2017 to 2020
• NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence; Women and Non-Communicable Diseases; 2019 to 2024
• NHMRC Project Grant (APP1128450); Do exposures before conception influence the risk of asthma in offspring? Investigate the association of preconception factors in the development of asthma; 2017 to 2020
• NHMRC Project Grant (AP110324); Obesity, Pre-diabetes and Future Risk of Diabetes: Maximising the evidence, minimizing the cost. Pooled analysis to investigate the effects of obesity on Pre-diabetes; 2016 to 2019 
• Jean Hailes for Women’s Health; Concise literature review to support revised Women’s Health Policy 2020-2030; 2018
• Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT120100812), Professional Research Fellowship (PRF) (APP 1121844); Trajectories and turning points for women’s reproductive health; 2014 to 2017
• NHMRC Project Grant APP1059550; The Mother’s and their Children’s Health (MatCH) study, Maternal health and wellbeing and children's health outcomes; 2017
• NHMRC Project Grant (APP1048023), philanthropic funding provided by The Royal Women’s Hospital (Melbourne, Australia) The Women’s Foundation (Melbourne, Australia), Australia New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group (ANZCOG, Sydney, Australia) the Westmead Hospital Familial Cancer Service (Sydney, Australia) and in the USA this study was supported by philanthropic funding provided by the Basser Center for BRCA and the Susan G. Komen organization (SAC150003); Health and wellbeing of women after surgical menopause; 2017
• NHMRC Project Grant (APP1027196); International collaboration for a Life course Approach to reproductive health and Chronic disease Events (InterLACE) project; 2017
• Australian Government Department of Education and Training; Australian Early Development Census (AEDC), Testing the role of the timing and chronicity of maternal depressive symptoms in the associations with child behaviour and development (alongside the ALSWH and MatCH studies); 2017
• NHMC Partnership Project (APP10743456), supported by funding from NHRMC and Cancer Councils in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia; Translating research into practice: outcomes from the Healthy Living after Cancer partnership project; 2017
• Commonwealth of Australia Medical Research Future Fund Grant (MRFF-END); Prevalence and incidence of endometriosis in Australian women: a data linkage cohort study; 2017
• EU FP7 Multi-country cOllaborative project on the rOle of Diet, FOod-related behaviour, and Obesity in the prevention of Depression (MooDFOOD) (Project 613598), InCHIANTI study baseline (1998-2000) Italian Ministry of Health (ICS110.01/RF97.71) and in part by the US National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD (contracts: 236 MD 916413 and 236 MD 821336), InCHIANTI follow-ups two and three (2004–2010) by the US National Institute on Aging (contract: N01-AG-5-0002), supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health 
  The Whitehall II study was supported by the UK Medical Research Council, British Heart Foundation, and the US NIH (R01HL36310, R01AG013196); Association of a priori dietary patterns with depressive symptoms: a harmonised meta-analysis of observational studies; 2017
• National Institute of Aging (R01AG017644), and a consortium of the UK government departments coordinated by the National Institute for Health Research; Adverse childhood experiences are associated with increased risk of miscarriage in a national population-based cohort study in England; 2017
• Medical Research Council National Survey of Health Development (NSHD); the UK Medical Research Council (MC UU 12019/1, National Child Development Study (NCDS); the UK Economic and Social Research Council, The Whitehall II study; the Medical Research Council (K013351) British Heart Foundation (BHF RG/16/11/32334) and US National Institutes on Aging (R01AG013196, R01AG034454), Seattle Midlife Women’s Health Study (SMWHS); in part by grants from the National Institute of Nursing Research (P50-NU02323, P30-NR04001, and R01-NR0414), Healthy Ageing of Women Study (HOW) and Japanese Midlife Women’s Health Study (JMWHS) (also called Australian and Japanese Midlife Women’s Health Study); the Queensland University of Technology Early Career Research Grant and the JSPS Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research, The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN) has grant support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), DHHS, through the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) and the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) (Grants U01NR004061; U01AG012505, U01AG012535, U01AG012531, U01AG012539, U01AG012546, U01AG012553, U01AG012554, U01AG012495), (alongside ALSWH); Obesity, smoking, and risk of vasomotor menopausal symptoms: a pooled analysis of eight cohort studies; 2017
• An unrestricted grant by PAL Technologies, Scotland, UK; A grant by the Worldwide Universities Network–Research Development Fund 2018; An internal seed grant by the University of Sydney, a National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia) equipment grant; in-kind support by the National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen; and financial support by Loughborough University; Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting, and Sleep (ProPASS) consortium; 2017
• The Faculty of Health, Aarhus University, Denmark (Project No. 240008), The Wood Dust Foundation (Project No. 444508795), The Danish Lung Association, the Swedish Heart and Lung Foundation, the Swedish Association Against Asthma and Allergy, the Swedish Association against Heart and Lung Disease, the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research, The Bror Hjerpstedt Foundation, The Vårdal Foundation for Health Care and Allergic Research, The Norwegian Research Council (Grant Nos. 214123, 230827/F20, 228174 and 135773/330), The Norwegian Asthma and Allergy Association, HelseVest Norway (Grant No. 911 631), The Icelandic Research Council, The University of Iceland Research Fund, The Icelandic GP’s Research; Fund, The Estonian Science Foundation (Grant No. 4350), The Estonian Research Council (Grant No. PUT562), Melbourne University, National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia, SEPAR Spain, Sociedad Española de Neumologia y Cirugía Toracica Spain and Horizon2020 PHC1 (Grant No. 633212); ECRHS/RHINE/RHINESSA study, Asthma and selective migration from farming environments in a three-generation cohort study; 2017
• NHMRC Project Grant (1103242), The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, (contract nos. HHSN268201700001I, HHSN268201700002I, HHSN268201700003I, HHSN268201700005I, HHSN268201700004I) The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (CARDIA) supported by (contracts HHSN2682018000031, HHSN2682018000041, HHSN2682018000051, HHSN2682018000061 and HSN2682018000071) the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) The Jackson Heart Study (JHS) is supported and conducted in collaboration with Jackson State University (HHSN268201800013I), Tougaloo College (HHSN268201800014I), the Mississippi State Department of Health (HHSN268201800015I) and the University of Mississippi Medical Center (HHSN268201800010I, HHSN268201800011I and HHSN268201800012I) contracts from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study (MCCS) recruitment was funded by VicHealth and Cancer Council Victoria. The MCCS was further augmented by NHMRC grants (209057, 396414 and 1074383) and by infrastructure provided by Cancer Council Victoria. Cases and their vital status were ascertained through the Victorian Cancer Registry and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, including the National Death Index and the Australian Cancer Database. The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis was supported by (contracts HHSN268201500003I, N01-HC-95159, N01-HC-95160, N01-HC-95161, N01-HC95162, N01-HC-95163, N01-HC-95164, N01-HC-95165, N01-HC-95166, N01-HC-95167, N01-HC-95168 and N01-HC-95169) the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and by (grants UL1-TR-000040 and UL1-TR-001079) the NCRR. The Population Study of Women in Gothenburg (PSWG) was financed in part by grants from the Swedish state under the agreement between the Swedish government and the county councils (ALF-agreement ALFGBG-720201). VIVA Study received grants (95/0029 and 06/90270) from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain; Comparing different definitions of prediabetes with subsequent risk of diabetes: an individual participant data meta-analysis involving 76 513 individuals and 8208 cases of incident diabetes; 2017
• Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center (U54 GM104940) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, which funds the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center; The Preconception Period Analysis of Risks and Exposures influencing health and Development (PrePARED) consortium; 2017
• Insight Grant (no. 435-2012-519) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, The Health and Retirement Study is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (grant no. IAU01AG009740); Do post-menopausal women provide more care to their kin?: evidence of grandparental caregiving from two large-scale national surveys; 2017
• National Institute on Aging (grants 2RO1AG7644 and 2RO1AG017644-01A1) and a consortium of the UK government departments co-ordinated by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing; 2017
• NHMRC Project Grant Schemes (299901 and 1021275), NHMRC European collaborative grant scheme (1101313) as part of ALEC (Ageing Lungs in European Cohorts funded by the European Union ’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant no 633212); Early menarche is associated with lower adult lung function: A longitudinal cohort study from the first to sixth decade of life; 2017
• European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no 635316 (ATHLOS project), the Swedish Research Council (project no: 2013-5474), the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (project no: 2013- 1850 and 2016-7312); Developmental origins of endometriosis: a Swedish cohort study; 2017
• FEDER Operational Programme Competitiveness and Internationalization and national funding from the Foundation for Science and Technology – FCT (Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal, POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016829, Grant/Award Number: FCTPTDC/DTP-EPI/6506/2014) Unidade de Investigação em Epidemiologia – Institutode de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto (EPIUnit) (Grant/Award Number:POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006862, and Ref. UID/DTP/04750/2013) Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology –FCT (Grant/Award Number: SFRH/BD/78153/2011); Australian Research Council, Future Fellowship, (Grant/Award Number: FT120100812); The use of weight adjusted for height rather than body mass index to assess growth trajectory: Results from a population-based cohort; 2017
• UK Medical Research Council (MC UU 12019/1); NSDH, UK Economic and Social Research Council; National Institute of Nursing Research; SMWHS, Queensland University of Technology Early Career Research Grant and the JSPS Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research; HOW and JMWHS (also called Australian and Japanese Midlife Women’s Health Study), Medical Research Council; The Whitehall II study, National Institutes of Health (NIH), DHHS, through the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) and the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) (Grants U01NR004061; U01AG012505, U01 AG012535, U01AG012531, U01AG012539, U01AG012546, U01AG012553, U01AG012554, U01AG012495); The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN); The role of sleep difficulties in the vasomotor menopausal symptoms and depressed mood relationships: an international pooled analysis of eight studies in the InterLACE consortium; 2017
• VicHealth and the Cancer Council, Victoria, Australia; M.C.C.S, National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark; D.N.C.S, Swedish Research Council (Grant number 521-2011-2955); core funding from the UK Medical Research Council (MC UU 12019/1) and UK Economic and Social Research Council, respectively; N.S.H.D, National Institute on Aging (Grants 2RO1AG7644 and 2RO1AG017644-01A1) and a consortium of UK government departments; N.C.D.S.. E.L.S.A, the World Cancer Research Fund; U.K.W.C.S.; Female reproductive history and risk of type 2 diabetes: A prospective analysis of 126 721 women; 2017
• European Union’s 2020 research and innovation programme (635316) ATHLOS project, the Swedish Research Council for Health (2013-5104) and the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (2018-00211); Early life programming of adult ischemic heart disease within and across generations: The role of the socioeconomic context; 2017
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services (contracts HHSN268201100046C, HHSN268201100001C, HHSN268201100002C, HHSN268201100003C, HHSN268201100004C and HHSN271201100004C); WHI program, Menopausal Estrogen Therapy and Breast Cancer Mortality; 2017
• Australian Government Department of Health; Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH) (and all related publications); 2014 to current
• NHMRC (APP1000986), Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (Project Number CE110001029), infrastructure and staff of the Priority Research Centre for Generational Health and Ageing (RCGHA) who are members of the Hunter Medical Research Institute; Exploring Workforce Participation Patterns and Chronic Diseases Among Middle-Aged Australian Men and Women Over the Life Course; June 2013
• Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant Numbers: 202463 and 25242063); How do health behaviours relate to dietary practice patterns among Japanese adults?; June 2013
• Kapan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (JSPS KAKENHI, Grant Number: 252420); Japanese eating behaviour and body weight; June 2013
• Medical Research Council (Grant numbers MRC_MC_UP_A620_1015, MRC_MC_UU_12011/2 and MRC_MC_UU_12019); Early life factors and mental health in adults; June 2013
• Wellcome Trust, the European Community and Diabetes UK. Additional financial support was received from Gesellschaft der Freunde und Foerderer of HeinrichHeine-University Duesseldorf, Germany, to the Nutrition Co-ordinating Centre (MT); Dietary patterns and type 1 diabetes; June 2013

Advisory or governing boards 

• Her Heart; Advisory Board Member; 2023 to 2026 
• Australian Department of Health and Aged Care; National Women's Health Advisory Council; 2023 to current
• Queensland Heart Foundation; Advisory Board Member; 2022 to current
• International Prediction of Pregnancy Complication Network (UK based); Steering Committee Member; 2019 to 2021
• National Endometriosis Clinical and Scientific Trials (NECST) Network; Advisory Committee Member; 2018 to 2022
• Ten to Men Study; External Scientific Advisory Group; 2019 to current
• National Women’s Health Research, Translation and Impact Network (WHRTN); Steering Committee Member; 2020
• European Menopause and Andropause Society; Advisory Board Member; 2019 to 2021

Consulting/ Speakers’ fees/ Honoraria/Paid authorship

Nil

Meeting attendance/ paid travel/ receipt of meals 

• Internal grant from Stockholm University and by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare I.K., Grant Number 2013–1850; 2013 (travel related expenses)
• March of Dimes; 2020 (travel related expenses)
• Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University; 2019 (travel related expenses)

Intellectual Property

Nil

Direct relationships or payments from: Food companies, food manufacturers, grocery stores, dietary products companies, professional societies

Nil

Family member employment/ financial interests

Nil

Relationship with organisations with financial links or affiliations with industry groups

Nil

Relationship with organisations which advocate known industry or policy positions

Nil

Unpaid consultancies and/or in-kind support

Nil

Any relationship with NHMRC

Nil

Relationships of family members relevant to dietary guidelines review

Nil

Any formal advice or opinion provided to industry, a government organisation or a non-government organisation on a matter of relevance to the committee

Nil

Publicly expressed a position related to the guidelines

Nil

Other

Nil

Additional Information

Nil

Employment 

Senior Research Fellow, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute; March 2018-Current 

Grants/Contracts 

• NHMRC Investigator Grant; Advancing Health Equity of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population; 2024 to 2029
• NHMRC MRFF Indigenous Health Research; Towards a culturally appropriate coordination, rehabilitation and secondary prevention model in primary care for Aboriginal people hospitalised with chronic disease (CI); Collaborating organisations ANU, UoA, UniSA, CALHN, Flinders Uni; 2023 to 2026
• NHMRC MRFF Indigenous Health Research; An Australian Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy informed Racism Reduction Model (CIA); Collaboration organisations: University of Adelaide, SA Health (CALHN, SALHN); 2023 to 2025
• SAHMRI seed funding; COVID-19 – Priorities of the South Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Sector (CIB); 2023 to 2024
• Medical Research Future Fund; Translation of culturally informed diabetes training for Aboriginal Health Practitioners on Aboriginal patient outcomes: a cluster randomised trial of effectiveness. Diabetes Workforce; 2020 to 2025
• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies; Insights into supporting the wellbeing of older Aboriginal people receiving home care packages who are experiencing grief and loss and the wellbeing of staff who care for them: a pilot project; 2020 to 2021
• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies; Taking the next steps: Informing the transformation of the research sector to respond to Aboriginal research priorities and ways of conducting research; current
• Medical Research Future Fund; Ngalaiya Boorai Gabara Budbut – supporting the heads and hearts of children: Responsive mental health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents; 2020 to 2023
• Wyatt Benevolent Institution Inc; The Cultural Pathways Program and social determinants of health; 1 July 2016 to 20 June 2021
• University of South Australia and NHMRC Program Grant no. 631947; Chronic disease outcomes; 2011 to 2016
• NHMRC; Kidney Health; 2019 to 2022
• Medical Research Future Fund; Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus; 2019
• NHMRC; Leaving no-one behind, Aged care; 2020 to 2024
• NHMRC; Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Workforce; 2018 to 2023
• NHMRC; Adolescent Health; 2020 to 2023
• NHMRC; Social determinants of health and social and emotional wellbeing. 2019 to 2023
• NHMRC; Methamphetamine use and web based therapeutic tool; 2016 to 2020
• NHMRC; Prevention, management and treatment of chronic disease; 2013 to 2018
• NHMRC; Child health and development data linkage study; 2013 to 2017
• NHMRC; Primary Health Care Adolescent services; 2018 to 2020
• NHMRC; Social consequences of child abuse and neglect; 2016 to 2020

Advisory or governing boards 

• Aboriginal Health Research Ethics Committee of South Australia
• Associate Editor, Australian Health Review

Consulting/ Speakers’ fees/ Honoraria/ Paid authorship

Nil

Meeting attendance/ paid travel/ receipt of meals

• Dietitians Australia Conference 2022; Presentation about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Governance; Conference registration covered by Dietitians Australia; no other payment

Intellectual Property

Nil

Direct relationships or payments from: Food companies, food manufacturers, grocery stores, dietary products companies, professional societies

Nil

Family member employment/ financial interests

Nil

Relationship with organisations with financial links or affiliations with industry groups

Nil

Relationship with organisations which advocate known industry or policy positions

Nil

Unpaid consultancies and/or in-kind support

Nil

Any relationship with NHMRC 

Reviewer on grant panels 

Relationships of family members relevant to dietary guidelines review

Nil

Any formal advice or opinion provided to industry, a government organisation or a non-government organisation on a matter of relevance to the committee

Nil

Publicly expressed a position related to the guidelines

Nil

Other

Nil

Additional Information

Nil

Employment

• Associate Dean Student Life, University of Wollongong, 2023-current
• A/Discipline Leader for Nutrition & Dietetics, University of Wollongong, 2023-current
• Associate Dean (Education), University of Wollongong, 2018-2023

Grants/Contracts

• Interprofessional Education Teaching and Research Fund, University of Wollongong, 2023; $100,000
• NCSEHE Small Grants Research Program ‘Towards a financially inclusive higher education system’, University of Wollongong 2024; $49,924,94  
• SMAH Small Project Grant – Health & Medical Collaboration; Mood, food, and biomarkers: Longitudinal follow up study of factors predicting weight gain and chronic disease risk in major depressive disorder; University of Wollongong; 2019  

Advisory or governing boards

Nil

Consulting/Speaker’s fees/Honoria/Paid authorship

• Offered and accepted offer to submit a journal article to Healthcare with no publication charge, if accepted after the usual review process; University of Wollongong; 2024
• Application and approval for payment of a journal article to Nutrients, University of Wollongong; 2023

Meeting attendance/paid travel/receipt of meals

Nil

Intellectual Property

Nil

Direct relationships or payments from: Food companies, food manufacturers, grocery stores, dietary products companies, professional societies

Nil

Family member employment/financial interests

Nil

Relationship with organisations with financial links or affiliations with industry groups

Nil

Relationship with organisations which advocate known industry or policy positions

Nil

Unpaid consultancies and/or in-kind support

• NSW/ACT Working Group Member, Meals on Wheels, 2022-current
• Supervision of dietetics research student who conducted her final year research with Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) on health messaging via GP practices; completed 2018

Any relationship with NHMRC

Nil

Relationships of family members relevant to dietary guidelines review

Nil

Any formal advice or opinion provided to industry, a government organisation or a non-government organisation on a matter of relevance to the committee

Written and verbal advice provided for the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety regarding nutrition and older adults; Dieticians Australia; Ongoing

Publicly expressed a position related to the guidelines

Nil

Key relevant publications/media declared in the last five years

Publications

Various publication in nutrition support for older adults across the continuum of care

• do Rosario VA, Fitzgerald Z, Broyd S, Paterson A, Roodenrys S, Thomas S, Bliokas V, Potter J, Walton K, Weston-Green K, Yousefi M, Williams D, Wright IMR, Charlton K. Food anthocyanins decrease concentrations of TNF-α in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: A randomized, controlled, double blind clinical trial. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2021 Mar 10;31(3):950-960. doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2020.11.024. Epub 2020 Dec 5. PMID: 33546942. – Low anthocyanin puree was provided in kind by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland Government.

Media

Nil

Other

Nil

Additional information

Nil

Employment 

• Food Standards Australia New Zealand, 2006 to July 2021
• College of Nursing and Health Sciences; Flinders University, Adelaide; Affiliate position; Adjunct Associate Professor; October 2020 to current
• School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences; Flinders University, Adelaide; Affiliate position; Adjunct Associate Professor; April 2016 to 2019

Grants/ Contracts

Nil

Advisory or governing boards

Nil

Consulting/ Speakers’ fees/ Honoraria/ Paid authorship 

• Consulting for WHO Representative office for Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam and Singapore; May 2023 to December 2023

Meeting attendance/ paid travel/ receipt of meals 

• Food Standards Agency, United Kingdom, International Social Science Liaison Conference Speaker and Session Chair 2022 (accommodation costs)

Intellectual Property

Nil

Direct relationships or payments from: Food companies, food manufacturers, grocery stores, dietary products companies, professional societies

Nil

Family member employment/ financial interests

Nil

Relationship with organisations with financial links or affiliations with industry groups

Nil

Relationship with organisations which advocate known industry or policy positions 

Financial member of Choice 

Unpaid consultancies and/or in-kind support

Nil

Any relationship with NHMRC

Nil

Relationships of family members relevant to dietary guidelines review

Nil

Any formal advice or opinion provided to industry, a government organisation or a non-government organisation on a matter of relevance to the committee

Nil

Publicly expressed a position related to the guidelines

Nil

Other 

Public presentations as part employment at FSANZ on social/ behavioural/ economic aspects of food regulation 

Additional Information

Nil

Employment 

• Associate Professor of Implementation Science and Health Service; Deakin University; September 2022 to September 2027
• Associate Professor of Dietetics, Swinburne University of Technology, July 2020 to current
• Health promotion manager, Hunter New England Population Health, Jan 2018 to current
• Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle, July 2015 to July 2020, currently conjoint

Grants/ Contracts 

• World Health Organization Europe; Tender (AUD 30,407) to develop a global nutrient profiling concept paper
• Heart Foundation; Collaboration & Exchange Award (Application ID: 107725); Visit to develop implementation science and system science expertise; 2024
• NHMRC MRFF; A randomised controlled trial to assess the impact of Baby-EATS, a scalable digital health intervention targeting infant feeding and weight in children aged 0-2 years; January 2023 to July 2027
• National Heart Foundation; Transforming community-based prevention approaches to improve translation of nutrition and physical activity interventions in childcare centres and schools; January 2023 to January 2027
• Victorian Department of Health - Tender for review of the Achievement Program; Healthy Schools, Healthy Early Childhood Services and Healthy Workplaces Achievement Program review; January 2023 to June 2023
• The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre - rapid program grant; Applying learning health systems methods in community-based prevention: using novel methods to understand dynamic barriers to implementation of chronic disease prevention programs; October 2022 to October 2023
• NHMRC Partnership grant (APP1170042) - Protocol for NHMRC funded research; A randomised controlled trial of an implementation strategy delivered at scale to increase outdoor free play opportunities in early childhood education and care (ECEC) services: a study protocol for the get outside get active (GOGA) trial; current; Received salary support via an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DE170100382)
• Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award; To assess the mechanisms underpinning dietary guideline implementation in community settings; 2018 to current
• Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship; To assess the impact of a web-based menu planning intervention to improve provision of healthier foods in childcare centres; 2015 to 2018
• Healthy Australia/ feedAustralia; Online menu planning program; 2018 to 2019
• National Heart Foundation of Australia; Harnessing digital innovation in High School Canteens to reduce cardiovascular dietary risk factors; 2020 to current
• nib Foundation; A technology based solution to support parents to improve their child’s diet ‘Swap What’s Packed in the lunchbox; 2020 to current
• Hunter Medical Research Institute; Pilot cluster randomised controlled trial assessing the potential impact of an online intervention to improve child dietary intake in childcare; 2018 to 2020
• Teachers Health Foundation; Addressing the health risk behaviours of the education workforce: A program to enhance the wellbeing of primary school teachers; 2019 to 2020
• Hunter New England Local Health District (conduct of trial); Priority Research Centre for Health Behaviour (statistical support); and Dr Yoong is supported by the National Heart Foundation; A multicomponent audit and feedback intervention to improve implementation of healthy food policy in primary school canteens; 2015
• Heart Foundation; A randomised controlled trial of a childcare-based web intervention to improve children's fruit and vegetable consumption in care; 2015
• The Hunter Medical Research Institute with support from Hunter New England Population Health (G1300572) and the University of Newcastle; Scaling up interventions in public health; 2015
• The Australian National Preventive Health Authority; Tobacco Prevention programs in health services; 2015
• NSW Healthy Children’s Initiative; Healthy canteen policies in primary schools; 2015
• Australian Research Council; Healthy canteen policies in primary school; 2014
• Priority Research Centre for Health Behaviour; Healthy food in childcare; 2016
• The Australian Research Council, Hunter New England Population Health, the Alcohol and Drug Foundation, The University of Newcastle and the Hunter Medical Research Institute; Sustaining alcohol prevention programs in sporting clubs; 2016
• University of Newcastle Priority Research Centre for Health Behaviour; Resilience programs in schools; 2016
• Quebec SPOR-SUPPORT Unit and Canadian Institutes of Health Research Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Support for People and Patient-Oriented Research and Trials unit; sustainability programs in primary care; 2016
• World Health Organization; E-cigarette use in youth; 2016
• NSW Health Translational Research Grant Scheme; Nutrition interventions in high schools; 2017
• Hunter Cancer Research Alliance; Physical activity interventions in schools; 2016
• Australian Prevention Partnership Centre; The effectiveness of strategies to scale the implementation of community chronic disease prevention interventions; 2016
• Cancer Institute NSW; Association of parental investment of time and cost in food provisioning with adherence to dietary guidelines for the consumption of fruits, vegetables and non-core foods in pre-schoolers; 2013
• Priority Research Centre for Health Behaviour, University of Newcastle Australia and Hunter New England Population Health Wallsend Australia; Mechanisms in implementation science; 2016
• Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award; healthy canteen policies in primary schools; 2014
• University of Newcastle Faculty of Health and Medicine Strategic Early Career Research Pilot Grant and Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award; Sleep interventions in young children; 2017
• NSW Cancer Council Program Grant; Healthy canteen policies in primary schools; 2014
• NSW Ministry of Health, Translational Research Grant Scheme; Healthy lunchboxes in primary schools and nutrition interventions in high schools; 2018
• Cancer Institute NSW; Telephone intervention for preschool-aged children; 2012
• NHMRC (APP1102943); Healthy food in childcare; 2015
• NSW Ministry of Health Translational Research Grants Scheme; Real world implementation of obesity prevention program in childhood; 2019
• NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence grant; Implementation for Community Chronic Disease Prevention; 2018
• Hunter Children’s Research Foundation, Hunter Medical Research Institute and Hunter New England Population Health; School uniform in primary schools to increase child activity; 2019
• World Health Organization and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; E-cigarette use in youth; 2020
• NSW Office of Preventive Health; obesity prevention interventions in primary schools; 2019
• NHMRC, Flexischools provided the web-based canteen ordering infrastructure to schools included in the study; Online school canteens in primary schools; 2018
• NHMRC; Assessing the use of systems-based online technology to increase implementation of dietary guidelines into childcare centres; 2016 to 2019
• NHMRC; Increasing implementation of chronic disease prevention programs in community-based setting; 2018 to current
• NHMRC; Increasing the implementation of physical activity policies into childcare centres; 2019- current
• NHMRC; Assessing the impact of a novel childcare based physical activity intervention on child outcomes; 2016 to 2018

Advisory or governing boards

Nil

Consulting/ Speakers’ fees/ Honoraria/ Paid authorship

Nil

Meeting attendance/ paid travel/ receipt of meals 

• World Health Organization Global Consultation on Novel and Emerging Nicotine and Tobacco Products; 21 to 23 June 2023; meeting attendance, travel, accommodation, food and subsistence supported by World Health Organization. 
• Implementation Science Health Conference Australia 2023; Panel speaker on scaling up; March 2023 (paid attendance and travel)
• Public Health Association Australia Conference; Developing a dynamic barriers system to optimise implementation of childcare-based prevention programs; April 2023; (paid attendance)
• Dietitians Australia Conference 2022; An audit of the types of knowledge translation strategies included in international food-based dietary guidelines (no form of payment)

Intellectual Property (patents, licenses, royalties)

Nil

Direct relationships or payments from: Food companies, food manufacturers, grocery stores, dietary products companies, professional societies

Nil

Family member employment/ financial interests

Nil

Relationship with organisations with financial links or affiliations with industry groups

Nil

Relationship with organisations which advocate known industry or policy positions 

• Editorial board member, International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2015 to current
• Editorial board member, Implementation Research and Practice, 2021 to current
• Editorial board member, Nutrition and Dietetics, 2014 to current

Unpaid consultancies and/or in-kind support 

• Dietetics expert for ‘feedAustralia’ (Information Technology not for profit organization) to develop an online menu planning program to support childcare service with planning menus consistent with guidelines. The evaluation of this program was funded by NHMRC project grant above. ‘feedAustralia’ has relationships with Woolworth which was embedded as a shopping option in the menu planning tool, however a shopping checklist could be printed for purchase of food elsewhere. The research team (including Associate Professor Yoong) did not have any direct contact or collaboration with Woolworths and the relationship was facilitated by the Information Technology company after the program was built.
• HubHello Pty Ltd provided in-kind support 2015
• SP Health Co Pty Ltd provided food composition data; 2018

Any relationship with NHMRC

Nil

Relationships of family members relevant to dietary guidelines review

Nil

Any formal advice or opinion provided to industry, a government organisation or a non-government organisation on a matter of relevance to the committee

Nil

Publicly expressed a position related to the guidelines 

Published extensively expressing the need for dietary guidelines to be implemented by end-users to produce impact and produced resources to facilitate this. No advocacy for particular aspects of the guidelines or specific diets, just that the recommendations need to be operationalised and implemented in practice to result in intended health outcomes for the community.

Other 

• Honorary role; Research associate - Cochrane Public Health; knowledge translation research; current
• Honorary role; Deputy Director - National Centre of Implementation Science; research as part of funded activity; current

Additional Information

Nil

Employment

• Director; Aria Health; July 2019-June 2020
• Research Fellow; University of Melbourne; 2023-current
• Geriatrician; Royal Melbourne Hospital; October 2023-current
• Geriatrician; Echuca Regional Health; Oct 2019-current
• Geriatrician; Western Health; Jan 2011-present

Grants/Contracts

• NHMRC; Implementation and evaluation of a co-designed exercise program to reduce falls in older people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities; 2023-2028; $1,498,604.40
• NHMRC; Strengthening and enhancing the utility of a neuropsychological tool for dementia in First Nations peoples; 2023-2027; $1,972,394.80
• NHMRC; A whole of community systems approach to co-designing and implementing a safe spaces model of primary healthcare for sexually diverse young people in Western Victoria; 2024-2029; $1,995,092.40
• NHMRC; The Pomerium Trial: Protecting Aged Care Residents from the Pandemic; 2021-2024; $1,189,527.00
• NHMRC; Implementation of a co-designed, community led exercise program to reduce falls in older people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities: a pilot trial; 2023-2026; $586,939.18
• Australian Government Research Training Placement; 2019-2022; $33,000 per annum
• Department of Industry, Science and Resources; Effect of HMB and vitamin D supplementation on osteosarcopenia in older persons; 2019-2023; $100,000
• TSI Pharmaceuticals; Effect of HMB and vitamin D supplementation on osteosarcopenia in older persons; 2019-2023; $409,465

Advisory or governing boards

• Director/Shareholder, clinical corporate governance; Aria Health; 2018-current

Consulting/Speaker’s fees/Honoria/Paid authorship

• Clinical services for Aboriginal Elders; Aboriginal Community Elders Services; Feb 2019-current
• Multiple education contracts for delivery of ageing/dementia education to GPs; Murray PHN; 2020-2024
• Codesign of modules on aged care education for RACF staff; Murray PHN; 2023-2034
• Education package development and delivery to GPs; Western NSW; Feb 2024 and April 2024

Meeting attendance/paid travel/receipt of meals

Nil

Intellectual Property

Nil

Direct relationships or payments from: Food companies, food manufacturers, grocery stores, dietary products companies, professional societies

Nil

Family member employment/financial interests

Nil

Relationship with organisations with financial links or affiliations with industry groups

Nil

Relationship with organisations which advocate known industry or policy positions

Nil

Unpaid consultancies and/or in-kind support

• Advice on service delivery process for older people in hospital, Echuca Regional Health; 2018-current
• Advice on optimal living environments in service re-design; Aboriginal Community Elders Service; 2019-current
• Medication Advisory Committee; Warrina Aged Care; 2019-current

Any relationship with NHMRC

Nil

Relationships of family members relevant to dietary guidelines review

Nil

Any formal advice or opinion provided to industry, a government organisation or a non-government organisation on a matter of relevance to the committee

Nil

Publicly expressed a position related to the guidelines

Nil

Key relevant publications/media declared in the last five years

Publications

Various publications in geriatric medicine and sarcopenia/frailty  

• Al Saedi A, Kirk B, Iuliano S, Zanker J, Vogrin S, Jayaram L, Thomas S, Golding C, Navarro-Perez D, Marusic P, Leng S, Nanan R, Duque G. Effects of 3 months of multi-nutrient supplementation on the immune system and muscle and respiratory function of older adults in aged care (The Pomerium Study): protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2022 May 6;12(5):e059075. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059075. PMID: 35523505; PMCID: PMC9082724. – Nutrient drink provided in-kind.

Media

Nil

Other

Nil

Additional information

Nil

Employment 

• Principal Research Fellow, Central Queensland University, December 2023 to current
• Research role, Jawun Research Centre, Central Queensland University, December 2023 to current
• Systems Manager, National Support Service, Australian Nurse Family Partnership Program, Department of Health (previous) 
• Research role, Molly Wardaguga Research Centre, Charles Darwin University (previous) 

Grants/Contracts 

• Australian Department of Health and Aged Care; The provision of the Australian Nurse Family Partnership Program National Support Service; 2023 to 2025
• NHMRC MRFF Emerging Priorities and Consumer Driven Research Initiative; Improving the Health and Wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mothers and Babies Grant; 2022 to 2027
• Department of Health; Support service for pregnancy and early childhood care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. Team Leader; 2020 to 2022
• Medical Research Future Fund; Trauma integrated perinatal care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and infants; 2022 to 2025
• Apunipima Cape York Health Council; Antenatal and postnatal care and health promotion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families in Cape York communities; Evaluation of the Baby One Program; 6 years on; December 2020 to December 2021
• Lowitja Institute Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Cooperative Research Centre (CRC); Supporting Indigenous parents who have experienced childhood trauma; 2017 to 2019
• Lowitja Institute Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Cooperative Research Centre (CRC); Workforce issues in Indigenous primary healthcare sector; 2018
• Lowitja Institute Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), Victorian Government’s Operational Infrastructure Support Program; Supporting Indigenous parents who have experienced childhood trauma; 2017 to 2019
• Lowitja Institute Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Cooperative Research Centre (CRC); Trauma integrated perinatal care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and infants; 2017 to 2019
• Gurriny Yealamucka Health Service Aboriginal Corporation; Indigenous community controlled primary health care; 2018
• North Queensland Children’s Research Foundation; Antibiotic use in Indigenous children; 2015 to 2017
• NHMRC; Maternal and Child Health services for Indigenous families, Redesigning maternal, newborn and child health services for the best start in life for First Nations families (AI); 2020 to 2025
• NHMRC; Indigenous health care equity, Strengthening systems for Indigenous healthcare equity; 2020-2022
• NHMRC; Prevention of chronic health conditions in high risk populations; 2012 to 2016.
• NHMRC Global Alliance Chronic Disease; Models of health care for diabetes in pregnancy; 2015 to 2020
• NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence: Improving Health Services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children via Apunipima Cape York Health Council, 2015 to 2016
• NHMRC; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander maternal health; 2014 to 2017
• NHMRC and Western Australian Department of Health; Perinatal mental health screening for Indigenous women; 2017 to 2020
• NHMRC; Antenatal and postnatal care and health promotion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families in Cape York communities; 2015 to 2017
• NHMRC; Family centred care for early childhood; 2015 to 2016
• Centre for Chronic Disease prevention; Prevention of chronic health conditions in high risk populations; 2012 to 2016
• Diabetes Queensland; Postnatal care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women with diabetes in pregnancy; 2014 to 2015

Advisory or governing boards 

• Committee member; The Vitamin K Working Committee; NHMRC; 2017 to 2019
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award Committee member; National Heart Foundation; 2019 to 2020
• Committee member; Human Ethics Research Committee; James Cook University; 2017 to 2018
• Apunipima Cape York Health Council, Research Governance Committee member, 2014 to 2019

Consulting/ Speakers’ fees/ Honoraria/ Paid authorship

• Molly Wardaguga Research Centre, Charles Darwin University; Production of Annual Data Report for the Australian Family Partnership Program; October 2023

Meeting attendance/ paid travel/ receipt of meals

Nil

Intellectual Property

Nil

Direct relationships or payments from: Food companies, food manufacturers, grocery stores, dietary products companies, professional societies

Nil

Family member employment/financial interests

Nil

Relationship with organisations with financial links or affiliations with industry groups

Nil

Relationship with organisations which advocate known industry or policy positions

Nil

Unpaid consultancies and/or in-kind support

Nil

Any relationship with NHMRC 

As above & assessor of grant applications; 2013 to 2021 

Relationships of family members relevant to dietary guidelines review

Nil

Any formal advice or opinion provided to industry, a government organisation or a non-government organisation on a matter of relevance to the committee

Nil

Publicly expressed a position related to the guidelines

Nil

Other

Nil

Additional Information

Nil