Adrienne Young
Accredited Practicing Dietitian (B Hlth Sci (Nut&Diet), Hons)
Adrienne is a clinical dietitian at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and is undertaking her PhD research in the area of malnutrition and the elderly. Her research aims to improve the nutritional intake of acute elderly hospital patients through the use of strategies such as dedicated feeding assistants and Protected Mealtimes.
Rebecca Byrne
BMedSc M NutrDiet Cert IV Breastfeeding Education (Counselling)
Rebecca is an Accredited practising Dietitian. Her PhD investigates the food and nutrient intake of children aged 12-16 months of age, and associations with maternal feeding beliefs and practices. Rebecca is particularly interested in whether a mother's perception of her toddler's weight and food intake match the child's true weight and intake, and how this influences maternal feeding practices.
Elena Jansen
BSc(Health)
MPhil(Health)
Thesis title: The Inter-Relationship between General Parenting, Maternal Child-Feeding and Child Growth in a Sample of Australian First-Time Mothers with Two-Year-Old Children: A Longitudinal Study
Elena Jansen is currently conducting her PhD, investigating parental influences on child weight. A particular focus is on general parenting and feeding in infancy and early childhood. Her research includes the evaluation of feeding measurement tools as well as modelling of inter-relationships between parent and child, aiming to understand pathways to a healthy weight in children.
Susie de Jersey
MPH, BHthS (Nut & Diet), BAppS (HMS)
NHMRC PhD Scholar
Thesis title: “Are we missing opportunities: Understanding health behaviours associated with overweight in pregnancy”
The New Beginnings Healthy Mothers and Babies Study will focus on understanding health behaviours in pregnant women and examine how these might be different according to pre-pregnancy weight status. The study aims to examine the prevalence of excess gestational weight gain and describe psychosocial factors associated with healthy eating, physical activity, and gestational weight gain in a cohort of Queensland women. The New Beginnings Healthy Mothers and Babies Study recruited just over 700 women early in pregnancy, following participants until 16 weeks post partum.
Véronique Thébaud
MSc in Nutrition and Public Health
I am Véronique Thébaud , a French registered Dietitian from Paris School of Dietetics (France), holding a MSc in Nutrition and Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM, UK) and currently PhD Candidate at IHBI.
My current research evaluates the NOURISH-RCT, an Australian obesity prevention intervention commencing early in infancy. Within this research, I am addressing both effect and process evaluations in order to define for whom and under what conditions this intervention may be effective.
Wei Hong (Wendy) Liu.
Wendy’s PhD is in children’s nutrition with a focus on parents feeding practices and children’s eating behaviours.
Rati Jani
MSc in Nutrition and Dietetics with Research
PhD scholar
Thesis title: Parental Feeding Practices of Indian Mothers Residing in Mumbai and Australia
Synopsis: If parents teach their children to eat healthy foods in the early years, children can learn to make suitable food choices, which can lead to healthy weight status in childhood and adult years. Therefore, the current research attempts to investigate early child feeding practices among Indian mothers residing in Australia and India.