Food and nutrition policies; Public health nutrition; Food systems sustainability; Dietary intake evaluation; Diets' environmental sustainability

SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE

Kripi Ravish Khanna • July 2024 – To date
• Degree: Doctor of Philosophy
• Thesis title: Leveraging Public Food Procurement to support food systems transformation.
• Supervisory team: Dr Erica Reeve, Dr Carolina Venegas Hargous, Dr Shaan Naughton, Prof Gary Sacks
• Role: Associate supervisor
• Status: in progress

Danielle Brooke • Oct 2024 – Feb 2025
• Student: Danielle Brooke
• Degree: Master of Health Promotion (Minor Project)
• Thesis title: Food system sustainability and health outcomes between 2015 and 2024: an umbrella review.
• Supervisory team: Dr Carmen Vargas, Dr Carolina Venegas Hargous, Dr Rubén Fernández Rodríguez.
• Role: Associate supervisor
• Status: Completed with High Distinction

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

World Public Health Nutrition Congress 2024 • Jun 2024 • London, UK
• Invited Oral Presentation in Congress Symposium: “Co-benefits of food system policies for safe and supportive food environments”
• Oral Presentation: “Chilean children’s adherence to sustainable healthy diets and its association with sociodemographic and anthropometric characteristics”.
• Poster Presentations: “Adapting the planetary health diet index for children and adolescents” & “Improving Chilean children's adherence to sustainable healthy diets will require complementary actions”.

Food Governance Conference • Feb 2024 • Sydney, Australia
• Oral Presentations: “Changes in children’s adherence to sustainable healthy diets over the period Chile’s Food Labelling and Advertising Law was implemented: a longitudinal study (2016-2019)” & “Tools and outcomes measures for assessing the environmental sustainability of food environments: a scoping review”.

XX Latin American Nutrition Congress • Oct 2023 • Cuenca, Ecuador
• Oral Presentation: “Adapting the planetary health diet index for children and adolescents”.
• Poster Presentation: “Chilean children’s adherence to sustainable healthy diets and its association with sociodemographic and anthropometric characteristics”.

22nd IUNS-ICN International Congress of Nutrition (ICN) • Dec 2022 • Tokyo, Japan
• Poster Presentation: “Double and triple-duty actions for addressing the global syndemic in childhood: a scoping review”.

2022 International Congress on Obesity (ICO) • Oct 2022 • Melbourne, Australia
• Poster Presentation: “A scoping review of double and triple-duty actions designed to address the global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition and climate change in childhood”.

World Public Health Nutrition Congress 2020 • Apr 2020 • Brisbane, Australia
• Poster Presentation: “Non-Nutritive Sweeteners consumption by Chilean pre-schoolers before the Food Labelling Law”.

IV Update Course for Dietitians • Oct 2019 • Santiago, Chile
• Invited Oral Presentation: “Consumption of Non-Nutritive Sweeteners among low-medium income Chilean preschoolers: a reality before the implementation of the Food Labeling Law”.

1st Sweetener Symposium • May 2019 • Santiago, Chile
• Invited Oral Presentation: “Consumption of Non-Nutritive Sweeteners among low-medium income Chilean preschoolers prior to the implementation of the Food Labeling Law”.

XVIII Latin American Nutrition Congress • Nov 2018 • Guadalajara, Mexico
• Poster Presentation: “Consumption of Non-Nutritive Sweeteners among Chilean preschool children and its association with sociodemographic and anthropometric characteristics”

MEDIA APPEARANCES

• SBS Español • 2024 • Numero de personas con obesidad y sobrepeso casi se ha duplicado en una década en Australia | SBS Spanish
• SBS Español • 2024 • Alimentos procesados para bebés: "La mayoría no son saludables", explica nutricionista | SBS Spanish
• SBS Español • 2023 • Aumenta robo de alimentos en supermercados de Australia tras subida de precios de productos básicos

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS AND SERVICE EXPERIENCE

• Chair of the public event “The Future of Food Policy in an uncertain world” featuring Prof Francesco Branca (former Global Director of Food Systems and Food Safety at the WHO), Jane Martin (Executive Manager at the Food for Health Alliance), Dheepa Jeyapalan (Food Systems Lead Convenor at Regen Melbourne), and Prof Anna Peeters (CEO of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth)) • Australia, April 16, 2025.
• Member of the organising committee for the public event “Innovations in policies for healthy and sustainable diets: cross jurisdictional exchange” featuring Holly Rippin (WHO Europe), Dr Alison Tedstone (former National Director with responsibility of diet, nutrition and obesity in the Health and Wellbeing Directorate of Public Health England (PHE)), Dr Fabio Gomes (Regional Advisor on Nutrition and Physical Activity at PAHO), and Gill Duffy (Director of Food and Nutrition policy at the Australian Department of Health) • Australia, November 14, 2024.
• Member of Program (to support) academic careers equitably (pACE) • 2025 onwards
• Member of the World Public Health Nutrition Association (WPHNA) • 2024 onwards
o Peer review for conference presentations
o In-kind contribution to Working Group No.5 “Safe and supportive environments for nutrition”.
o Draft issue paper on food environments to feed into the Congress Declaration for Action.
o Organize pre-congress webinar and congress symposium and contribute as a guest speaker in both.
o Present as a guest speaker at the online webinar “Navigating the Nutrition Shift: Ultra-processed foods, sustainable diets and health”.
• Member of the Sustainable Health and Environment Network • 2023 – 2024
o Member of the organising committee for a University symposium showcasing Deakin University’s research on environmental sustainability.
• Member of Sociedad Latinoamericana de Nutrición (SLAN) • 2018 onwards
o Selected as a Latin American Nutrition Leader by the Latin American Nutrition Society (SLAN), with participation in the LILAUT leadership program held in Cuenca, Ecuador in October 2023.

REVIEWER FOR SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

• European Journal of Pediatrics
• The International Journal of Health Planning and Management
• European Journal of Nutrition
• Food security
• Revista Chilena de Nutricion
• Public Health Nutrition

CONSULTANCY EXPERIENCE

UNICEF Country Office Thailand • Apr 2024 – Dec 2024
• Specific Project: Strategies to support the introduction of a comprehensive food classification system for food environment policies in Thailand
• Overarching Project: Reshaping urban food retail environments for prevention of childhood overweight in East Asia and Pacific.
• Funding source: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), $862,639.18 USD, of which $55,882.00 USD are specific to the Thailand project.
• Research team: Prof Adrian Cameron, Prof Gary Sacks, Dr Tailane Scapin, Prof Anna Peeters, Dr Carolina Venegas Hargous, Dr Erica Reeve.
• Main responsibilities:
o Support the Government of Thailand with the design of a food classification system to support the gradual implementation of a draft food marketing bill. Lead the validation of this food classification system using data on pre-packaged foods available in Thailand. Lead the development of supporting documentation for government officials and policymakers and the write-up and submission of research outputs.

UNICEF Country Office Indonesia • Aug 2024 – April 2025
• Project: Front of pack labelling analysis support for UNCIEF Indonesia
• Funding source: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), $10,000.00 USD
• Research team: Dr Carolina Venegas Hargous, Prof Kathryn Backholer, Prof Liliana Orellana.
• Main responsibilities:
o Support UNICEF Indonesia with the development of a consumer experimental survey to evaluate the effectiveness of different types of front-of-pack nutrition labelling schemes. Lead data analysis and reporting of results in the form of an academic publication and an advocacy brief for Indonesian decision-makers.

UNICEF East Asia-Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO) • Apr 2024 – Jun 2025
• Specific Project: Priorities and capacity needs for Governments in the East Asia and Pacific region related to the prevention of childhood overweight and obesity.
• Overarching Project: Reshaping urban food retail environments for prevention of childhood overweight in East Asia and Pacific.
• Funding source: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), $862,639.18 USD, of which $14,326 USD are specific to the UNICEF EAPRO project.
• Research team: Prof Adrian Cameron, Prof Gary Sacks, Dr Tailane Scapin, Prof Anna Peeters, Dr Carolina Venegas Hargous, Dr Erica Reeve.
• Main responsibilities:
o Support UNICEF EAPRO with the development of a facilitated survey to investigate the capacity support needs of government officials looking to develop, enact, implement, and evaluate legal measures for overweight and obesity prevention across South East Asia and the Pacific. Lead the preparation and submission of a low-risk ethics application. Co-lead data collection, data analysis, and reporting of results, as well as the development and delivery of capacity building supports to governments across the region.

UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) • Jul 2024 - Jun 2025
• Project: Better Knowledge for Better Diets and Growth of Adolescent Girls in South Asia (Phase 3)
• Funding source: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), $60,968.00
• Research team: Prof Kathryn Backholer, Dr Navoda Liyana Pathirana, Dr Erica Reeve, Dr Seema Khadka, Dr Carolina Venegas Hargous.
• Main responsibilities:
o Support UNICEF ROSA with the development and delivery of capacity-building webinars and training on healthy food environment policies and nutrient profiling models for country offices.