About the NSW Centre for Public Health Nutrition

The NSW Centre for Public Health Nutrition (The Centre) was established in 2000 in collaboration with the Sydney University Nutrition Research Foundation, and the NSW Health Department. The Centre comprises a team of public health professionals with specialist expertise in nutritional epidemiology, evidence-based intervention planning and applied nutrition research. The Centre is one of three that are co-located and form the Prevention Research Centres (PRC) at the University of Sydney. The two other PRCs are the NSW Centre for Overweight and Obesity and the NSW Centre for Physical Activity and Health.

The Centre is headed by Professor Ian Caterson, with co-directors Dr Tim Gill and Dr Karen Webb. Dr Vicki Flood manages the Centre’s work program. A small number of other researchers make up the team. The goal of the Centre is to promote relevant and effective policy, practice, and applied research in the field of public health nutrition. The Centre works towards the achievement of this goal through five streams of work comprising food and nutrition monitoring and surveillance, evidence-based planning, applied research, workforce development, and inputs to national food regulatory standards and national nutrition policies and guidelines.

The themes of the Centre’s current projects are:

• Dietary behaviours, chronic disease and the prevention of obesity;
• Infant and young child feeding;
• Food standards, consumer issues, food and nutrition policy; and
• Nutrition and equity