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ProfessorFelice Jacka

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Deakin Distinguished Professor

Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation

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  • Deakin Distinguished Professor
    Faculty of Health/School of Medicine/Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation
  • HERB, Health, Education and Research Building (HERB), Level 1, 285 Ryrie Street, Geelong

BIO

Deakin Distinguished Professor Felice Jacka OAM is internationally recognised as a leader in the rapidly developing field of research focused on Nutritional Psychiatry and is the founder and immediate-past president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR). She is also founder and director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University.

She is the author of the book ‘Brain Changer’ through Pan Macmillan in Australia and Yellow Kite Books in the UK (2019), and ‘There’s a Zoo in my Poo’, published by Pan Macmillan in July 2020.

She is a Clarivate Highly Cited researcher (2020-24), putting her in the top 0.1% of scientists worldwide.

In 2021 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (Queen’s honour) for her contributions to Nutritional Psychiatry.

Research Groups
Food & Mood Centre

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Deakin Distinguished Professor
    Deakin University, School of Medicine

MEDIA

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor (Psychiatric Epidemiology)
    Deakin University, School of Medicine, Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT), Geelong, Australia2017 - present
  • Director, Food and Mood Centre
    Deakin University, Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT), Geelong, Australia2017 - present
  • Adjunct Professor
    James Cook University, Biomedical Sciences, Townsville, Australia2019 - present
  • Honorary Research Fellow
    Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Centre for Adolescent Health, Melbourne, Australia2014 - present
  • Honorary Principal Research Fellow
    Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia2014 - 2022
  • Associate Professor
    Deakin University, School of Medicine, Geelong, Australia2012 - 2016
  • Honorary Principal Research Fellow
    The University of Melbourne, Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne, Australia2011 - 2017
  • Research Fellow
    Deakin University, School of Medicine, Geelong, Australia2011 - 2011
  • Research Fellow
    University of Melbourne, Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne, Australia2008 - 2010

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Melbourne
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Science
    University of Melbourne
  • Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art)
    Royal Melb Inst. of Technology

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Clinical sciences
  • Neurosciences
  • Health services and systems
  • Nutrition and dietetics
  • Public health

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Health

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Medicine

SPECIALIST RESEARCH GROUP

  • Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation

AREAS OF EXPERTISE