ProfessorKaren Campbell

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Faculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

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    Faculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
  • +61 3 522 78414 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • AFFILIATION
    Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society (ANZOS)
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    Public Health Association of Australia (PHA)
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    Australasian Society for Behavioural Health and Medicine (ASBHM)
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    International Society for Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA)
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    2012 Victorian Health Promotion Foundations David Hill Award for Knowledge/Translation
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    2009 Vice Chancellors Award for Research Excellence (Early Career Researcher)
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    2007-2011 Victorian Health Promotion Foundation Public Health Research Fellowship
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    2007-2011 National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant (#425801)
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    2008-2010 National Heart Foundation of Australia Research Grant
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    2007 Central University Research Grant
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    2004-2006 National Heart Foundation of Australia Post Doctoral Fellowship
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    2000-2003 National Health and Medical Research Council Public Health Scholarship
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Prof Campbell frequently presents her research at professional conferences and meetings.
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    Prof Campbell serves/has recently served in the following roles:
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    2018 - ongoing: Lead of IPAN's Nutrition in Preganancy, Infancy and Early Life Research Domain
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    2018 - ongoing: Faculty of Health representative on the Board of Kardinia Health Geelong
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    2018 - ongoing: IPAN representative on Nutrition Australia's lead Fruit and Vegetatable Consortium
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    2018 - ongoing: IPAN representative on the Naitonal Vegetable Intake Strategic Alliance (VISA) lead by CSIRO
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    2016- 2018: Associate Editor for the International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity (IJBNPA)
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    2016- 2019: Deputy Director for the NHMRC funded Early Prevention of Obesity in CHildhood Centre for Research Excellene (EPOCH CRE)
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    2016 - ongoing: Co-lead of the EPOCH CRE Translation of obesity prevention interventions in childhood stream
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    2002-15: Member of the the Australasian Child and Adolescent Research Network (ACAORN) - the peak child obesity research group in Australia. Funding ceased in 2015. I was a founding member and led the prevention stream of the network from 2008-10.
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    2013: Expert member of the ANPHA funded project "The cost-effectiveness and consumer acceptability of taxation strategies to reduce rates of overweight and obesity amongst children in Australia" (Brisbane )
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    2010-2013: Executive member of Parents Voice a lead parent advocacy group focussed on children's diet and physical activity
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    1998- 2013: Member of the Public Health Associations Food and Nutrition Special Interest Group, (the lead advocacy group for national food and health policy which I founded in 1996).