Speakers

Confirmed Keynote Speakers for 2011 include:

Sharon Friel

Assoc Professor Sharon Friel (PhD, MSc), a social and nutritional epidemiologist, was recently awarded an inaugural Australian Research Council Future Fellowship and continues to have a part-time appointment with University College London. Prior to this award she held a joint appointment as Director of the Global Health Equity Group in the International Institute for Society and Health, University College London and a Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH), Australian National University, Canberra. Between 2005 and 2008 she was Head of the Secretariat (UCL) of the global World Health Organisation Commission on Social Determinants of Health and a lead writer of its final report.  Before that she was a lecturer in the Department of Health Promotion, National University of Ireland, Galway (1992-2004).

A/Prof Friel has been involved for many years in global health and development; social determinants of health and health inequities; food systems and food security; NCD prevention; climate change and health equity, and urbanisation and health - as an academic, a government advisor, chairperson of national public health organizations, and in high level national and international committees.

Jacqui Gingras

Jacqui Gingras, PhD, RD is an Assistant Professor at the School of Nutrition, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Her research involves theoretical and experiential explorations of critical dietetics epistemology or what “counts” as dietetics knowledge. She has a particular interest in how dietetic students’ and professional’s subjectivities are constituted by power and discourse. Her research engages narrative, phenomenological, and arts-informed methods as a means for situated and particular understandings of dietetic theory, education, and practice. Her work appears in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Food, Culture & Society, Radical Psychology, Feminist Media Studies, and Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. She is the managing editor of the Journal of Critical Dietetics.

Julie Ratcliffe

Julie Ratcliffe was appointed Professor of Health Economics within Flinders Clinical Effectiveness in the School of Medicine at Flinders University in August 2010. Julie has been a chief investigator on 18 research grants and she has published 70 papers in peer reviewed journals, including the British Medical Journal, Health Economics, and Social Science and Medicine.  Previous to her current appointment, Julie has held academic positions within the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at Sheffield University, the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) at Brunel University and the Health Economics Research Unit (HERU) at the University of Aberdeen. Julie holds a PhD in health economics and she has established a strong track record in health economics research and teaching. Her current research interests include the measurement and valuation of health outcomes for economic evaluation, the economic evaluation of interventions in health care  and the methodology and application of discrete choice experiments (DCE) for the quantification of patient and general population preferences for health and health care treatments and services.

Mike Rayner

Mike Rayner is Director of the British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group which is based within the Department of Public Health of the University of Oxford. The Group carries out research into food and health, in particular into the impact of food marketing and labelling on diets and initiatives that might improve diets such as so-called 'fat taxes'. A recent research interest of the Group is the relationship between a healthy diet and a sustainable diet. Mike is currently Vice Chair of Sustain and Chair of the Children's Food Campaign in the UK. He is a trustee of the UK National Heart Forum and a member of the Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee of NICE (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence for the UK). He is Chair of the Nutrition Expert Group for the European Heart Network based in Brussels and a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel of the International Obesity Task Force. He is also an ordained priest in the Church of England.

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Maria Makrides

Maria Makrides is Acting Director of the Women’s & Children’s Health Research Institute.  She is also the Professor of Human Nutrition at the University of Adelaide. As a research dietitian, Maria is committed to improving the nutrition and health of mothers and their babies through the translation of high quality research.  She has over 100 peer reviewed publications including in the prestigious journals; The Lancet and The Journal of the American Medical Association.  Maria currently serves on the Board of Directors of the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids (ISSFAL) and is a member of the Nutrition Committee, Australian Academy of Science.  Maria currently leads 5 national large-scale trials in the area of perinatal nutrition funded by the NHMRC and was the first dietitian to be awarded an NHMRC RD Wright Award and Senior Research Fellowship.

Sandra Capra

Sandra is currently the Chair of the International Confederation of Dietetic Associations (2004-2010).  In her international role she has been involved in supporting the development of cross national approaches that will impact on dietetics practice, including the development of the definition of a dietitian, the international code of ethics and good practice.  Part of the current strategic plan for the ICDA is to support particular activities of individual national dietetic associations across the world in order to improve practice. The standard nutrition and dietetics terminology is one such activity.  Sandra is currently Professor of Nutrition at the University of Queensland.

Erica Nixon

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Critical Dates

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Conference Opens - 26 May 2011

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