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National Committee for Nutrition

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The National Committee for Nutrition fosters nutritional science in Australia, links the Academy to Australian nutritional scientists and relevant scientific and other societies, and links Australian and overseas nutritionists, primarily through the .

Governance

• Terms of Reference (PDF, 118KB)

Reports and activities

• Nourishing Australia: A decadal plan for the science of nutrition—Mid-term review
  December 2024
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  April 2024
• scienceXart: food for thought – an art competition for primary school students
  August 2021
• Submission – Department of Health’s Public Consultation on Food Regulation Policy Guidelines
  January 2020
• Nourishing Australia: A decadal plan for the science of nutrition
  July 2019

Related groups and organisations

Members

• • University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health
  • Research expertise: Dietetics from food and nutritional science to prevention of lifestyle associated chronic disease
• • Nutrition Society of Australia, President
  • The University of Sydney, Head of Clinical School, Northern Rivers and Director of University Centre for Rural Health (UCRH).
  • Research expertise: Nutrition, neurodegenerative diseases, food security of vulnerable populations, micronutrients, Aboriginal health research, nutrition in ageing and disability.
• • Dietitians Australia, CEO
  • Expertise: Dietetics, nutrition, healthcare, business management, policy.
• • Council of Deans of Nutrition and Dietetics Australia and New Zealand, Chair
  • Edith Cowan University, Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Research expertise: The Milky Way Study, child-centred Research – A Respectful Approach to Research with Children
• • Edith Cowan University, Research Fellow, Nutrition and Health Innovation Research Institute (NHIRI)
  • Research expertise: Nitric oxide-mediated cardiovascular benefits of dietary nitrate and polyphenols
• • Deakin University, NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN)
  • Research expertise: Dietary patterns, diet quality, obesity, personalised nutrition and cardiovascular disease
• • University of Queensland, Director of Higher Degree Research, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
  • Research expertise: Nutritional chemosensing
• • The Food and Nutrition Doctor, Nutritional Food Science
  • Research expertise: Processing technology, nutrient and food composition, digestive processes
• • University of Newcastle, School of Environmental and Life Sciences
  • Research expertise: Immunology & microbiology, reproductive health, food choice behaviours
• • The University of Queensland, Professor and Discipline lead for Nutrition and Dietetics for UQ’s School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences.
  • Research expertise: Understanding the role of foods, eating patterns and dietary patterns in health and wellbeing
• • University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Bioscience
  • Research expertise: Sensory nutrition and genetic epidemiology
• • Western Sydney University, School of Health Sciences
  • Research expertise: Clinical Trials, dementia, food security
• • Queensland University of Technology, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Director at the International Confederation of Dietetic Associations.
  • Research expertise: Public health nutrition, food security, food literacy, child nutrition, nutrition, dietetics, qualitative methodologies, philosophy.
• • The University of Queensland, Professor and Chair in Human Nutrition
  • Research expertise: Dietetics, nutrition
• • The University of Sydney, Academic Director of the Charles Perkins Centre, and Professor in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • Research expertise: Integrative modelling framework