Professor McNaughton has led a program of research that focused on strengthening the evidence-base for public health nutrition strategies and interventions with a focus on epidemiological methods. Her work involves developing novel methods for measuring and interpreting population dietary patterns, understanding the role of foods, eating patterns and dietary patterns in health and well-being and understanding food and nutrition literacy as a determinant of eating behaviours to inform interventions to assist people to adopt healthy and sustainable dietary patterns. She has particular interest in translation of evidence into guidelines and nutrition communication messages. She has conducted foundational research into dietary patterns, developing methods and approaches for application across the spectrum of nutrition research. She will provide an overview of the key areas of research program, identify future and opportunity for collaborations.
Professor Sarah McNaughton is a nutritional epidemiologist, a Fellow of Dietitians Australia and a Registered Public Health Nutritionist with the Nutrition Society of Australia. She has over 25 years of expertise in nutrition and dietetics and has published over 230 peer-reviewed scientific papers. She has served on a range of national and international committees and advisory groups for the WHO, Australian Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance, Heart Foundation and Nutrition Australia and in September 2021, she was appointed Chair of the NHMRC Expert Committee for the review of the Australian Dietary Guidelines.