Area of research
Physiology · Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Research interest
Research interests include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Body Composition Measurement Techniques, Diet and metabolism studies, and Cardiovascular and exercise physiology.
Telling the good story: supporting children's first 1,000 days in Northwest Tasmania.
Pathway for life course research in low-income and middle-income countries: Andhra Pradesh Children and Parents Study (APCAPS) 1994-2023
Time to Focus on Movement and Active Play Across the First 2000 Days of Life
Body Composition Changes and Associations in Infants and Mothers During the First Year: Insights from a Pilot Study of the Baby-bod Project.
Growing CAPITOL (Critical Age Periods Impacting the Trajectory of Obesogenic Lifestyles) 4 Life.
Thriving in the First 1000 Days: Lessons from Positive Deviance Among Young Families.
Do Physical Activity and Diet Independently Account for Variation in Body Fat in Children and Adolescents? A Systematic Review Unpacking the Roles of Exercise and Diet in Childhood Obesity.
Global status of cardiorespiratory fitness and physical activity – Are we improving or getting worse?
Body composition reference charts for infants from birth to 24 months: Multicenter Infant Body Composition Reference Study.
School Gardening and Health and Well-Being of School-Aged Children: A Realist Synthesis.
Life course research in physical activity: Pathway to Global Action Plan 2030.
The Allied Health Expansion Program: Rethinking how to prepare a workforce to enable improved public health outcomes.
"An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure": Proposal for a Social Prescribing Strategy for Obesity Prevention and Improvement in Health and Well-being.
Effect of short-term hindlimb immobilization on skeletal muscle atrophy and the transcriptome in a low compared with high responder to endurance training model.
Gestational weight gain and postpartum weight retention in Tasmanian women: The Baby-bod Study.
Physical Activity and Food Environments in and around Schools: A Case Study in Regional North-West Tasmania.
Effect of severe compared with moderate energy restriction on physical activity among postmenopausal female adults with obesity: a prespecified secondary analysis of the Type of Energy Manipulation for Promoting optimum metabolic health and body composition in Obesity (TEMPO) Diet randomized controlled Trial.
Why some do but too many don't? Barriers and enablers to physical activity in regional Tasmania - an exploratory, mixed-methods study.
Domains of Capacity Building in Whole-Systems Approaches to Prevent Obesity-A "Systematized" Review.
“An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure”: Proposal for a Social Prescribing Strategy for Obesity Prevention and Improvement in Health and Well-being (Preprint)
The current global state of movement and physical activity - the health and economic costs of the inactive phenotype.
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Infant Adiposity at Birth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Therapeutic Interventions.
Determinants of Infant Adiposity across the First 6 Months of Life: Evidence from the Baby-bod study.
Exclusivity of breastfeeding and body composition: learnings from the Baby-bod study.
Anthropometry-based prediction of body fat in infants from birth to 6 months: the Baby-bod study.
Low responders to endurance training exhibit impaired hypertrophy and divergent biological process responses in rat skeletal muscle
Low responders to endurance training exhibit impaired hypertrophy and divergent biological process responses in rat skeletal muscle.
Effect of Combined Interval and Continuous Exercise Training on Gastric Emptying, Appetite, and Adaptive Responses in Men With Overweight and Obesity.
A Spatial Analysis of Access to Physical Activity Infrastructure and Healthy Food in Regional Tasmania.
WHO Child Growth Standards in context: The Baby-bod Project - Observational study in Tasmania.