Laureate Professor Clare Collins AO

Clare Collins AO is Laureate Professor, Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, University of Newcastle (UON), and Co-Director, Food & Nutrition Research Program, Hunter Medical Research Institute. As an internationally distinguished leader in nutrition and dietetics, her research performance places her in the top 1% most cited scientists globally.  

Laureate Professor Collins was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in 2023 for distinguished service to health research in nutrition and dietetics, scientific organisations and science communication. In 2024 she was awarded the UON Alumni Medical, its highest honour for outstanding professional excellence. Career outputs include over $33 million research funding, 600 journal articles, and over 50 Research Higher Degree candidates supervised. A trailblazer in her field, L/Prof Collins was ranked highest National Health and Medical Research Council female Investigator Grant in 2022 for her research in Personalised Nutrition and awarded the prestigious, Elizabeth Blackburn Award for Leadership in Clinical Medicine and Science.

Her research in precision and personalised nutrition targets nutrition at key life stages and chronic disease conditions, including heart disease and type 2 diabetes. The personalised eHealth nutrition tools she invented, including the Australian Eating Survey and Healthy Eating Quiz, have been used by hundreds of thousands of people to help improve eating patterns, diet-related health and wellbeing.