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20092024

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Biography

Meaghan is a public health nutrition researcher in the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food at Monash University. Her research has focused on addressing health inequities through improving the food environment. She has technical skills specific to the evaluation of complex and novel public health nutrition interventions that inherently have many components that need to be accounted for in evaluation of feasibility and effectiveness. Her PhD involved managing two parallel randomised controlled trials (RCT) devised to evaluate the Royal Horticultural Society’s Campaign for School Gardening, to determine if it has an effect on children’s fruit and vegetable intake. Her research at Monash University is applying systems thinking to public health research to improve the food environments in the Australia population with a focus on remote Indigenous Australia’s.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Research area keywords

  • inter

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