School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Faculty of HMNBS
Dr. Jenny Veitch was awarded was Doctoral Award of Distinction for the most outstanding research for 2007 from ACHPER (The Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation). Judging criteria were based on academic excellence, creative or original thinking, and possible applications to ACHPER's professional areas. The award was presented at their AGM on 19 May 2008.
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Accolade for Professor Boyd Swinburn
The work of Professor Boyd Swinburn (School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences) has recently been ranked seventh in a list of the fifteen greatest nutrition discoveries since 1976.
Professor Swinburn’s discovery—that obesity is a normal response to an abnormal environment—was the only research in the top fifteen that came from either Australia or New Zealand.
His research represented the first investigation into the role played by the environment in understanding obesity. Previous research had centred on genetic or metabolic abnormalities.
The fifteen discoveries were nominated and ranked at a one-day symposium of nutrition experts held in the Netherlands, and the results were recently published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Professor Swinburn is one of Australia’s leading public health and obesity prevention researchers and is internationally renowned for his work in preventing obesity in children and adolescents.
He is Chair in Population Health, and Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention within the Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences.
Prior to this, Professor Swinburn was the Medical Director of the National Heart Foundation in New Zealand and an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland.
Dr Andrea Sanigorski and her colleagues at the Waterfront have been awarded $600,000 by the Dept of Human Services for the evaluation of 5 Being Active and Eating Well communities.
If you are a past graduate of the Bachelor of Food Science and Nutrition or B.App. Sci (Food Science and Nutrition) you may be interested in joining our Alumni. A function to celebrate "10 years of Food Science and Nutrition" is planned for early in 2008. Watch this space.....
Please go to the Food Science and Nutrition Alumni Chapter if you would like to be notified about future events
