A/Prof Rachel Laws
EPOCH CRE Stream 4 co-lead, Rachel Laws, was recently promoted as Associate Professor in Public Health Nutrition at the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University.
Rachel has been instrumental in exploring the scale-up and uptake of INFANT, an early childhood obesity prevention program that is being rolled out across VIC. As part of INFANT, Rachel is also leading the development and testing of the world first app intervention to promote healthy infant feeding practices.
Follow Rachel on Twitter @rachellaws1
Dr Vicki Brown
Dr Vicki Brown has been promoted as Senior Research Fellow at Deakin Health Economics, Deakin University. Vicki conducts research with Stream 3 of EPOCH CRE, on the economic evaluation of childhood obesity prevention interventions.
Vicki’s research focuses on advancing the economics of early childhood obesity, specifically in program implementation and scale-up. She was recently awarded an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to determine the most policy-relevant outcomes for early childhood obesity prevention; estimate the value of these outcomes by stakeholder group; explore how these value judgements differ between groups.
Follow Vicki on Twitter @Vicki_BBB
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