Jane Martin

Jane has worked in public health advocacy and policy since the mid-1980s covering the risk factors of tobacco, diet, weight and alcohol. She heads the Food for Health Alliance, a leading advocacy agency working to reduce diet-related disease and alcohol and healthy diet programs at Cancer Council Victoria. Her role incudes developing the strategic advocacy and policy research agenda for the programs as well as coordinating public education and advocacy campaigns on healthy weight and alcohol use.

Jane’s career has involved extensive engagement with policy and advocacy-oriented research to advance regulatory reform around tobacco, diet and alcohol control policies. She is experienced in both researching and applying advocacy strategies to encourage governments to adopt evidence-informed public health policies.

Jane is a past Board Member of Sexual Health Victoria and the Immediate Past President of the Australia New Zealand Obesity Society (ANZOS). She has been recognised for her contribution to public health advocacy with an Honorary Doctorate by Deakin University and travelled on a Churchill Fellowship to study successful strategies for the adoption of policies to improve diets. In 2019 was honoured with the Public Health Association of Australia President’s Award.