Publications and Grants
Relevant Publications
2025
2024​
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A Call to Action: Healthcare Professionals to Become Independent of the Commercial Milk Formula Industry
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Household food insecurity and novel complementary feeding methods in New Zealand families
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Assessment of foods for infants and toddlers in Australia against the World Health Organization’s Nutrient and Promotion Profile Model for food products for infants and young children
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Voluntary versus mandatory food labels, Australia
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Commercially-produced infant and toddler foods—How healthy are they? An evaluation of products sold in Australian supermarkets
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Effects of marketing claims on toddler food products on parents’ product preferences, perceptions and purchasing intentions: an online experiment
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Fathers’ perceived role, self-efficacy and support needs in promoting positive nutrition and physical activity in the first 2000 days of life: a mixed methods study
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Assessing the Policy Implications of Different Definitions for Added Sugars: An Analysis Across the Australian Packaged Food and Beverage Supply
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Australian Stakeholder Perspectives on Healthier Retail Food Environments for Toddlers—The Era of “Band Aids and Small Inroads”
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Dietary fat intakes and food sources in early childhood: results from the Melbourne Infant Feeding, Activity and Nutrition Trial (InFANT) Program
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Breastfeeding and the Longitudinal Changes of Body Mass Index in Childhood and Adulthood: A Systematic Review
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​Compliance of Australian commercial foods for young children (<36 months) with an international nutrient and promotion profile model
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Characterising Parent-Appeal Marketing on Foods for Children: A Scoping Review
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Estimating carbon and water footprints associated with commercial milk formula production and use: development and implications of the Green Feeding Climate Action Tool
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A proposal to recognize investment in breastfeeding as a carbon offset. Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
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Increasing Children's Vegetable Consumption: Translating a Review of the Evidence Base to Develop Best Practice Guidelines
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Breastfeeding – a survey of fathers’ support needs and preferred sources of information
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Ultraprocessing and presence of additives in commercially produced complementary foods in seven Southeast Asian countries: a cross-sectional study
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Ultra-processed foods linked to higher mortality
2023
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Front-of-pack marketing on infant and toddler foods: Targeting children and their caregivers
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Feeding young children during mandatory COVID-19 quarantine in Australia
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2022
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2021 and prior
Grants
Grant: 2022 - 2024
Funding: VicHealth Impact Research Grant
This project aims to investigate how parents respond to marketing claims on toddler food products, and develop and test evidence-based communications for mobilising public support for regulatory reform regarding on-pack marketing of toddler foods
Grant: 2023 - 2025
Funding: Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Maternal and Healthy Lifestyles Grant
This project aims to test the efficacy of placing mandatory added sugar warning labels and limiting front-of-pack marketing claims on ready-made infant and toddler foods in promoting healthier food choices by parents for their young children.
