Felice Jacka
Role and profile
Associate Professor Felice N Jacka is a psychiatric epidemiologist with a particular research interest in the common mental disorders, depression and anxiety.
Teaching responsibilities
Teaching responsibilities include supervision of higher research degree students.
Research interests
Associate Professor Jacka leads a field of investigation focused on the role of diet, as well as physical activity and smoking, as risk factor for the common mental disorders. She has an overarching interest in population-based approaches to the prevention of mental health problems, using public health strategies. She also leads a program of research that examines lifestyle based treatment interventions for clinical depressive illnesses.
Awards and prizes
(2012) Deakin Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research: Early Career Researcher (2011) Brain and Behavior Research Institute (formerly NARSAD) Young Investigator Award (2010) Researcher of the Year Award Health and Lifestyle Geelong Smart Network (2010-2014) NHMRC Post-doctoral Training Fellowship (Public Health) (2010) Ian Potter Travel Award (2008) Early Career Researcher Award: Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research (ASPR) (2008) Researcher of the Year Award: Early Career Researcher. Geelong Smart Network (2008) Early Career Research Award to attend International Society for Affective Disorders (ISAD) meeting. (2007) PORES research scholarship: University of Melbourne (2005-2008) Ian Scott Fellowship: PhD Scholarship from Australian Rotary Health Memberships
Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research Australasian Society for Bipolar Disorders International Society of Affective Disorders International Society for Bipolar Disorders International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology Service to the University, discipline or community
Associate Professor Jacka is a frequent speaker at public forums and is actively involved in continuing education as a keynote speaker at academic and medical institutions, both in Australia and elsewhere. As a member of the steering committee for the Parents Jury, an online network of parents and guardians, initiated and funded by Cancer Council Australia, Diabetes Australia Vic, QLD and WA, the Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society, VicHealth and YMCA Victoria, she is actively involved in lobbying governments, councils and industry for changes to the promotion and accessibility of processed and unhealthy foods to children. With Dr Lana Williams, Associate Professor Jacka also leads the Early Career Researcher committee and co-ordinates the ECR Mentoring Program for the Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research (ASPR).
Conferences
(2009) International Federation for Psychiatric Epidemiology (IFPE): Vienna, Austria Diet Quality is associated with Common Mental Disorders (oral presentation) Invited symposium (2010) International Society Affective Disorders (ISAD): Vancouver, Canada Diet and Nutrition: A new perspective in psychiatry (author, co-chair and oral presentation) Symposia (2) (2010) EPA (section Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology): Bergen, Norway Lifestyle and the common mental disorders (co-chair and oral presentation) Cardiovascular risk factors for bipolar disorders (oral presentation) Symposium (2011) International Federation for Psychiatric Epidemiology (IFPE): Kaohsiung, Taiwan Diet and Mental Health (two oral presentations) Invited Symposium (2011) World Congress of Asian Psychiatry (WCAP): Melbourne, Australia Lifestyle, self-help and complementary medicines in mood disorders (Co-chair and oral presentation) Invited Symposium (2011) Australasian Society for Bipolar Disorders (ASBD): Sydney, Australia Risk factors and pathways of mood disorders (Chair and oral presentation) Diet as a modifiable risk factor for the common mental disorders Invited panel member (2011) Happiness and its causes (public conference): Brisbane, QLD Panel discussion with Dr Rosemary Stanton and Maggie Beer regarding Diet mental health research (2011) Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research (ASPR): Dunedin, NZ Early Career Researcher Workshop Research is tough; get a helmet (invited presentation) Invited Symposium (2012) International Society Affective Disorders (ISAD): London, UK Diet and Nutrition: New opportunities for the prevention and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders (author, Chair and oral presentation) |
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15th June 2012