Prof Kathryn Backholer

Kathryn Backholer is a Professor of public health policy and Co-Director of the Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, within the Institute for Health Transformation at Deakin University.  She holds a National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship and is a Fellow of the Public Health Association of Australia. Her research is focused on building the evidence to support the design, adoption and implementation of healthy and equitable policies that address the social, cultural and commercial determinants of health. She regularly works with UN organisations, particularly UNICEF and WHO, across the Asia region where she supports governments to accelerate food policy actions. Her research has a key focus on harmful marketing and food price and affordability.